Choose the wrong road and you're...
2008-05-01
N/A
90 min
A man is kidnapped from his city home in the quiet hours of the night and, the kidnapper, John Kelly, embarks on a journey into the Australian Outback towards the place where his hostage is due for delivery. As time and distance roll by, the strength and endurance of both men will be tested to the very end.
Essentially a Roadtrip movie with heavy criminal elements, Cactus feels incomplete. Many of the great films of the modern era are seen as such specifically because they don't give the audience answers, Cactus however feels more like it has straight-forward missing pieces, the ones that would get us across the line to fully invested in the story.
Even so, it's a watchable piece, with no more hideously glaring faults than memorable moments.
Final rating:★★½ - Had a lot that appealed to me, didn’t quite work as a whole.
