If you wipe Hollywood completely out of Mad Max, you get David Michôd’s post-apocalyptic Rover. This desolated Australia manages to crawl under every antihero’s skin and plant the seed of isolation and fear of their already-existing despair.
In this endless pitch-black tunnel, a light shines upon the most unlikely friendship between furious Eric (Guy Pearce) and mentally vulnerable Rey (Robert Pattinson). A light from the abyss of their soul indicates that, even though everything has gone awry, the tide can still change.
Australian cinema is relentless as much as it is beautiful. And with producer/writer/director David Michôd and writer Joel Edgerton, you know that it can only be relentlessly beautiful. Guy Pearce has always been spectacular, which leaves us with…
Robert Pattinson! A script has a main philosophy: Show, don’t tell! Robert Pattinson doesn’t say a word. He shows, having nothing to prove, that he is an actor. If Remember Me (2010) was not evident enough, The Rover rubs it in haters’ faces.
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