Mystery Road is a 2013 Australian crime film with neo-Western elements and setting,[2] written and directed by Ivan Sen.

[3] A film sequel entitled Goldstone was released in 2016, and TV series in 2018, all featuring Aaron Pedersen as the brooding Indigenous Australian detective Jay Swan.

Near the rural town of Winton, Queensland, a truck driver finds the body of a teenage Aboriginal girl named Julie Mason inside one of the drainage culverts under the road.

Johnno switches vehicles and leaves in his own hunting truck, driving to a rest stop, where he meets a local drug dealer named Wayne Silverman.

The man who is wearing a mask is shot by Johnno, using a hunting rifle from a distance and, as the driver attempts to leave, Jay kills him.

Jay kills Pete, then spots the dead body of Johnno and unmasks the orange car passenger to discover it is Constable Roberts.

The website's consensus reads, "Mystery Road evokes classic Westerns while using its Australian outback setting to delve into a surprisingly layered -- and powerfully impactful -- array of social issues.

"[4] Tom Clift of FILMINK called it a "masterfully executed slice of storytelling that rates as one of our finest films of the past few years.

"[5] Sandra Hall of The Sydney Morning Herald also gave a positive review, commenting that "Mystery Road's links to the classic Hollywood western are as obvious as its hero's cowboy boots and white hat but they do nothing to diminish its Australianness.

"[6] Craig Mathieson of The Sunday Age called it a "deeply satisfying and slow-burning modern-day western set in outback New South Wales, Ivan Sen's outstanding film Mystery Road bridges the current divide in Australian cinema with a prominent and precise work.

Australian movies have to work harder to secure audiences beyond those who go to them out of a sense of duty or worthiness; Mystery Road simply doesn't go that far.