I just didn't get All About E. Why does Johnny have such a hold over E (and she over him)? This was never really explained. On the road trip, why do houses appear on one side of the highway while the view straight ahead is just a rural landscape? Why is the turn-off to Hay somewhere between Wollongong and Melbourne, when it's actually in western NSW? Why does the clock on the wall give a different time from the one on the mobile phone? Why does Johnny believe he knows for sure where E is purely on the basis of a postcard he finds? Having arrived at what he believes to be E's hide-out (with no evidence), how does Johnny then know the way across paddocks to a tin shed (20km away) where the girls, their dog, and the gay boy, Matt, have fled? Why does the dog suddenly recover from the poisoned meat Johnny gave it? Why does a light plane suddenly appear? Why is the door of the plane open but closed a split second later? Why did the film not have any effect on me at all?

This film covers a lot of ground, as E sorts out her old and new problems while on the run from her ex-boss whose drug cash she ends up with. She moves from the promiscuity of the Sydney club scene, to a confrontation with her Lebanese parents, who still don't know that she's gay, and are angry she didn't finish her music degree, to a road trip across NSW as they flee the gangsters on their tail.

On the whole, it's pretty well done: it has some strong likeable characters, particularly Mandahla Rose as E, Brett Rogers as her gay Irish flatmate Matt, and Julia Billington as E's ex-lover Trish; and writer-director Wadley maintains the tension until the final climax quite well.

But like many Hollywood romances, the film has a bunch of annoying details that jar with the audience: the main characters make silly decisions in order to drive the plot in the desired direction; the villain is not consistent and swings from homicidal to forgiving and back again; the love story is too easily resolved without appropriate dialogue; and some of the dialogue overall is a bit formulaic.

But the film looks great, and the main characters are sufficiently likeable for many people to forgive these details.