These survival thrillers are all so formulaic and End Of The Road does not sway from that statement one bit. We are coddled into getting to know this family, money issues, the uncle smokes weed, the daughter does as well and has a tendency to wander off while the son is simply a plot device (hey lets witness a murder, steal some money, get threatened for said money, leave the money somewhere then go to the tourist attraction and leave my son alone).
We are thrust into middle America, the open road, the desert road, where the meth flows like water and apparently racists are everywhere. Its very stereotypical and where I do not want to ignore the fact that there are bigoted people in this world the display End Of The Road put up was something out of a cartoon.
The action sequences felt set up by a guy who choreographs for the play stage. It felt like Shudder quality like they filmed the chase scenes at night in a some guy's backyard. "Hey lets just drive in circles." There are odd choices in lighting where in place of headlight for a car it looks like they just shined a flashlight in actors faces.
Toward the end heres this purple lighting that illuminated the whole environment which was cool, but doesn't help the shoddy pacing of this painfully bland film. Like they really could care less for the viewer here and I really cannot speculate what the hell their demo graphic was - teen girls who have never seen a survival thriller? Wrong Turn, U-Turn, The Hitchhiker, Jeepers Creepers, Road Warrior, Breakdown - When you compare to other films with the same set up and premise that did way better I can only ask myself if these filmmakers even cared.
End Of The Road feels like it was shot in less than a week, stuck in post for a month until they gave and just farted it out on Netflix.
We are thrust into middle America, the open road, the desert road, where the meth flows like water and apparently racists are everywhere. Its very stereotypical and where I do not want to ignore the fact that there are bigoted people in this world the display End Of The Road put up was something out of a cartoon.
The action sequences felt set up by a guy who choreographs for the play stage. It felt like Shudder quality like they filmed the chase scenes at night in a some guy's backyard. "Hey lets just drive in circles." There are odd choices in lighting where in place of headlight for a car it looks like they just shined a flashlight in actors faces.
Toward the end heres this purple lighting that illuminated the whole environment which was cool, but doesn't help the shoddy pacing of this painfully bland film. Like they really could care less for the viewer here and I really cannot speculate what the hell their demo graphic was - teen girls who have never seen a survival thriller? Wrong Turn, U-Turn, The Hitchhiker, Jeepers Creepers, Road Warrior, Breakdown - When you compare to other films with the same set up and premise that did way better I can only ask myself if these filmmakers even cared.
End Of The Road feels like it was shot in less than a week, stuck in post for a month until they gave and just farted it out on Netflix.