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An Indigenous detective investigates the murder of a teenage girl in a small town in the Outback. Ivan Sen (Toomelah) crafts a mesmerising thriller with a stellar Australian cast including Aaron Pedersen, Hugo Weaving, Ryan Kwanten and Jack Thompson.
| Rating: | Unrated |
| Genre: | Mystery & Suspense |
| Directed By: | Ivan Sen |
| Written By: | Ivan Sen |
| On DVD: | Oct 14, 2014 |
| Runtime: |
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As a straight-up, "Law & Order"-esque criminal investigation, it's watchable. But lingering shots and half-baked racial commentary overstate the importance of "Mystery Road."
This tightly wound drama evokes a strikingly inventive sense of the Wild West in the Australian Outback.
Sen (who also shoots, scores and edits) goes walkabout through the minefield of contemporary Australian culture, offering an evocative snapshot of an unravelling crime scene - social, racial and economic.
A superior and taut outback adventure, you'd have to go back to Samson and Delilah to find an Australian feature this bonsa.
Slow-burning but very powerful.
Aaron Pendersen is thoroughly believable as the conflicted Jay and the blasted landscape is photographed so well you'll be sweating and swatting the flies away from your own face after 10 mins.
Indeed a slow-burning thriller. Not quite up to my taste, though.
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