It was a good movie, in that it was well acted and the cinematography was good. But I don't think it really hit the mark. It never really sold me on the girls being in danger, and the atmosphere didn't really feel very tense to me.

I guess they were going for remote location + drunk men = danger. But it felt like just another friday night at the pub to me. It didn't feel like the girls should be afraid of the men in the pub. And I say that as a woman, in Australia.

Also, there was nothing that really tied this story to the outback. This could have been set in the city with exactly the same story. There are plenty of suburban places in Australia where there are no daily buses, or there are other reasons to be stuck in town for a couple of days. And to be honest those girls were not really stuck there. Sure the bus wasn't coming for two days, but we saw in the overhead shot when they arrived that this was not a small town. I'm sure they could have found accomodation elsewhere or arranged for alternative transport.

I had some other issues with things in the movie.

That the only work available for them was a remote job at a pub is total BS. There are so many places in Australia that hire backpackers and people on working holiday visas. Fruit picking, farm stays etc. There's always work.

The girls are meant to be really close friends, close enough that they share a bed (platonically) at various times, but we never really see a lot of evidence that friendship outside a few key moments. The friendship felt very two dimensional.

I also felt let down by the lack of women at the pub. Even in mining towns in Australia there are women. Women work in the mining industry. Even young women. But most of the women in this movie were caricature's of that trope that you have to be backwards, old and slightly crazy to be living in rural Australia.

I also had trouble with the ending. Which I will spoiler cut:

[spoiler] why did they set the pub on fire? the owner might have been asshole who didn't pay his staff or suppliers but he did not cause the girls any harm. It was just a random group of men who were being creepy. The owner was not at fault for anything that happened in the movie, and setting the pub on fire was just overkill, like the people who wrote the movie didn't know how to end it. [/spoiler]