A detective played by the terrific Aaron Pedersen investigates the murder of a teenage girl whose body is found beside a highway in outback Queensland, in this first (the second is "Goldstone") "Jay Swan" outing, a movie that could easily have been an Arthur Upfield "Bony" adaptation except that it is more dour, monotone, and a more rudimentary police procedural than that, and also its spectacularly photographed life-in-outback-Australia features mobile phones, pokies, Facebook, and other modern-day societal ills.
★★★☆☆
CINECAL: ONE SENTENCE REVIEW
