Thursday, October 18, 2012

Movie review - "Road Train" (2010) **1/2

This starts off extremely well - a sex scene, four young adults on a trip together, some domestic mystery, then run off the road by a truck. Once it comes to a stop it's less good, and the action literally gets bogged down. Some of it feels just plain unbelievable, such as someone trying to lure another person into a truck, and there's one or two really overly nasty violent bits. But it's not a bad story and I was surprised by Bob Morley's decent performance - maybe I shouldn't be surprised I'm not that familiar with his acting, but he was very strong.

There's a good shock early death, Sophie Lowe has charisma, Georgia Haig looks like she's going to give a good performance but doesn't, the South Australian outback looks great, it gets a bit silly towards the end, but I didn't mind it. Good modern day Oz-sploitation.

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