The Rover isn't particularly complex but effectively utilises a strong collection of stringent imagery which is particularly compounded with lovely cinematography that highlights the outback of Australia.

There are moments in the film where there are odd stylistic choices; a strange piece of framing or a dodgy song but it doesn't hinder the film too much with outstanding performances from Guy Pearce and Robert Pattinson. The latter occasionally oversells but it's probably among his best performances nonetheless.

Although admittedly the film does look absolutely fantastic; it's also a particularly ugly film. The characters are in a world where money grants no power, money grants nothing yet is valued by some perhaps indicating a sense of hope which faintly exists. The potential for an economic upward surge isn't really important in the sense of the story yet combined with the hope given by Pearce's quintessentially flawed human - an emptied man who once was completely full.

Full of love and emotions yet destroyed by a particular moment in his life, that in conjunction with The Collapse, his character is that of the most interesting. He is the most dangerous character, a character of ownership and power, and selfishness yet likewise a selflessness to in particular - loyalty.

The Rover is a strange film, but it's also an incredibly numbing film at times with it being viciously tense and viciously exciting and viciously shocking and viciously poetic. In a sense, it's a proper good ride.