Outback

This got to be a joke, i was expecting a decent thriller, but instead I've witnessed a gradually degrading and nonsensical mess. If the couple were dropout students or written as mentally challenged then i would've suspended my disbelief, because they're both portrayed as complete morons, is that what the writers were going for? In that case it's still very poorly handled on their part. This film just drags on and every action becomes even more infuriating.

Can i say anything good about this movie? Visually it's alright, the actors did a believable portrayal of dumb people stereotypes, guess we wouldn't have a plot if they has common sense.

I know I'm sound unreasonable harsh, but there is no other way to for me to express how disappointing this movie was.

Verdict 3/10 - Should've stayed in quarantine.

I'm an Aussie with a love for the outback & even I could make stupid mistakes like they did. Makes you think about what you would do in another country in their situation. A couple of face palm moments but all in all, I think it was worth a watch.

The movie wants to make us believe this really happened in 2015 to a young American couple, but from everything I can find out it appears to just be a fictional story, based on an urban legend.

The young 20-something couple travel to Australia for a "get away" trip, on the flight over he presents the ring, he asks her to marry him. But she doesn't appear ready, she says she loves him but hasn't decided yet what she wants to do with her life. That gives a bitter start to their trip but they try to make the best anyway.

Their troubles start when with inadequate preparation he relies on his phone GPS to guide them to a destination. However it seems to give them faulty guidance, they basically get lost and from there the poor decision just mount and mount.

I watched it on DVD at home and I must admit I skipped quickly through the scenes where he drank his urine.

I have watched a lot of movies, averaging roughly 200 to 250 new movies a year for the past 20 years. I can recognize a poor movie when I watch one and this is a poor movie. I find myself wondering "why was Outback made?" If I were to arrive at a summary it would be "preparation is everything when traveling to a strange place." They did not, they made stupid decisions, they suffered the consequences. It doesn't take 90 minutes to deliver that message.

I didn't find anything particularly interesting in the characters or their predicament. I could not recommend this movie to anyone.

This is difficult to rate, because on one hand the film-making craft, vision and sound, is fantastic, but on the other hand the characters are morons, thus difficult to connect with. The male twice as dumb as the female. The decisions they make in the story are so thoughtless and stupid one can have little empathy or sympathy for them. They are 100% responsible for their own downfall.

There's some truth in this with the GPS. In the countryside we once had similar issues using GPS around the town of Trentham. The thing was making us go up dirt roads, driveways and so, completely ridiculous. They don't perform well out there. There's heaps of country-side in USA. They should have known this. And why didn't they have a real map as backup? This is just one of dozens of things they stuffed up on. I had no urge to want them to survive they were so brainless.

Why waste time making a film where there is no real challenge except from their own badly functioning brains?

The poster is misleading. There aint any scene where a woman is lying on a road n a snake nearby.

Very slow n boring movie.