Reżyseria:
David MichôdZdjęcia:
Natasha BraierMuzyka:
Antony PartosObsada:
Guy Pearce, Robert Pattinson, Scoot McNairy, Nash Edgerton, David Field, Scott Perry, Tawanda Manyimo, Jamie Fallon, Gillian Jones, Richard Green (więcej)Opisy(1)
Zapaść ekonomiczna zmieniła Australię w państwo widmo. Nie ma już pięknych miast, ani zadbanych farm. Pozostały zrujnowane siedliska i bezkresne nieprzejezdne drogi, na których grasują zezwierzęceni najemnicy. Żeby przetrwać w takim świecie trzeba pozbyć się złudzeń i stać się tak bezwzględnym człowiekiem jak Eryk (Guy Pearce). W pewien gorący dzień, grupa młodych gangsterów kradnie mu samochód. Jeden z chłopaków Rey (Robert Pattinson), brat herszta grupy, zostaje ranny. Eryk bierze go jako zakładnika i rusza za bandziorami. Pełne kurzu bezdroża, ciągłe zagrożenie i konieczność nieustannej walki, niebezpiecznie zbliżają niedawnych wrogów. Rey staje się dla Eryka kimś ważnym, ale zemsta nadal pozostaje aktualna. (Cineman)
(więcej)Recenzje (7)
With the atmosphere of its Australian outback in a realistic (i.e. non-fantasy) post-apocalyptic form with a lot of bleak social goings-on, The Rover is a superbly engaging thriller. Furthermore, I really like these reticent opuses in which we get to know the characters just a bit at a time. But the more sophisticated The Rover gets, the more futile it seems in some of its would-be philosophical dialogue, and the more unsatisfying its ending becomes. It’s as if it admitted that it was shit (and considered that to be its creative strength).
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(49th KVIFF) The tempo is easy-going, but the atmosphere is gripping, with the dirt, the desert, the hirsute hero, the endless Australian roads, the isolated buildings and the redneck post-apocalyptic population. Pearce and Pattinson are great. And it’s got some balls, as the midget will tell you. So, pretty satisfied, though Tarantino’s hype (OMG! OMG! the best post-apocalyptic movie since Mad Max) was, as expected, exaggerated, if not downright bollocks, as it’s usual with him. The final twist is (especially for me, those who know me will understand) utterly absurd, though the protagonist’s prior behaviour gives it at least some motivation.
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Michôd doesn’t make things much easier for the viewer and without any explanation he follows Guy Pearce and his retarded partner (Pattison finally finds his feet as an actor and as a village idiot is entertaining and completely natural) in the hunt for a stolen car, heading daringly toward the twisted finale. The rosy future is just roads and sand or an ugly human caricature with a gun. The first half hour before the main characters meet makes watching more difficult. Many will find it terribly boring, but I quite liked this naturalistic road movie.
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A slower and less functional affair than, for example, The Road (though similarly inhospitable, dirty, raw), its biggest flaw is that it wants to be occasionally cynical and deliberately far-fetched, but it doesn't really work. Guy Pearce and Robert Pattinson are surprisingly work, but otherwise, this bizarre post-apocalyptic road movie is average and not innovative or entertaining in any way.
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Quentin Tarantino called this film the best post-apocalyptic film since the original Mad Max. And I say congratulations to David Michôd for being able to produce such a hundred-percent concentrate of first-class boredom! The Rover is a kind of self-infatuated blob in which you will wait in vain for some twist and regretfully think about Mad Max and its epic moments. At least, the final scene makes sense and prevents a total fail. But, you, Quentin, please watch your mouth! [KVIFF 2014]
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The main anti-hero, Guy Pearce, races his way through post-apocalyptic Australia following a stolen car and is assisted by a mentally ill Robert Pattinson. If he at least uttered a few words at the beginning and explained how important this car is to him, the whole plot would immediately cease to exist. The pace is slow and there is barely an hour of actual plot in the film, but somehow it was dragged it out to almost double the runtime. Pattinson's character is much more interesting than Pearson's, and even Pattinson's performance is better. Pearce just frowns the entire time and the viewer wonders why he is doing what he is doing. I probably wouldn't recommend the film to post-apocalyptic fans either, because if a headline didn't appear at the beginning explaining that the film took place ten years after an unidentified catastrophe, I wouldn't even realize that it was supposed to be post-apocalyptic.
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"Rover" is definitely an interesting film, although it depends a lot on whether you enjoy slow, contemplative movies where every second feels like three seconds in reality. It drags on, but the story being told is not completely bad in itself. It just doesn't impress. I'm a fan of Robert Pattinson, and here he proves that he has stepped out of his box and is a capable actor. Guy Pearce has proven this a long time ago, he just tends to play similar types too often.
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