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Swerve

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Australia · 2012
Rated R · 1h 23m
Director Craig Lahiff
Starring Jason Clarke, Emma Booth, David Lyons, Travis McMahon
Genre Crime, Drama, Thriller

Driving cross-country to a job interview, Colin takes a short cut and comes across a fatal road accident. One of the drivers, Jina, is shaken but unhurt; the other has been killed instantly. Beside the dead body is a briefcase full of money, which Colin turns in to the local police. But getting out of town proves a nightmare, as Colin's good deed causes a series of bizarre events to unfold.

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70

Variety by

Packs enough pace, suspense and quality thesping to overcome some minor plot wobbles.

63

Slant Magazine by Chuck Bowen

A confident and exciting genre film, and that's certainly not nothing, but it has a slight impersonality that marks it as either a calling card or a work for hire.

20

New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman

Despite the revved-up start and a suitably dusty setting, the movie stalls almost immediately. The story is uninspired, Lyons looks lost, and Booth makes for a bland femme fatale. Clarke tries to inject some energy into the action, but even he seems to realize this ride’s going nowhere.

40

The New York Times by Manohla Dargis

The fatalities and clichés escalate, as the wife plays the femme fatale, and the men run circles around one another amid the dust, blood and some tonally off, ill-conceived cutesiness.

40

Village Voice by Nick Schager

The photogenic cast's looks far exceed their featureless performances, and any mood of sunshiny malevolence is undercut by too many studied directorial compositions.

60

The Dissolve by William Goss

Driven by Paul Grabowsky’s deceptively jaunty score, Swerve is ably performed and tightly paced... But it doesn’t stick the landing.

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