“Nobody messes with my family!” shouts Queen Latifah, aiming a revolver at baddies during a late moment in “End of the Road.” It is one of several points in this Netflix thriller where the blatancy of undiluted cliché has an effect rather more comical than intended. Taking a brisk route from the pedestrian to the preposterous, Millicent Shelton’s slick but silly film diminishes its social-commentary edge by painting an African American family’s cross-country trip in cartoonishly broad terms, imperiled by crazy and/or criminal “crackers” at every junction.
Director and cast do their best — well, maybe not their best, but their competent professional duty — with a formulaic, contrived screenplay. Still, the results do no one much credit, landing closer to overripe cheese than taut suspense, or even guilty-pleasure terrain. “End” launches on the streamer Sept. 9.
The Freemans — a choice of name that signals the script’s heavy hand...
Director and cast do their best — well, maybe not their best, but their competent professional duty — with a formulaic, contrived screenplay. Still, the results do no one much credit, landing closer to overripe cheese than taut suspense, or even guilty-pleasure terrain. “End” launches on the streamer Sept. 9.
The Freemans — a choice of name that signals the script’s heavy hand...
- 9/9/2022
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
Netflix thriller End of the Road pits Queen Latifah and Chris ‘Ludacris’ Bridges up against a killer, and we’ve learned today that it’s premiering this week, on Friday, September 9.
Netflix previews, “In this high-octane action thriller, a cross-country road trip becomes a highway to hell for Brenda and her family. Alone in the New Mexico desert, they have to fight for their lives when they become the targets of a mysterious killer.”
Beau Bridges, Mychala Faith Lee, Shaun Dixon, and Frances Lee McCain also star.
Millicent Shelton directed the thriller, written by Christopher J. Moore and David Loughery.
Producers include Tracey E. Edmonds, Mark Burg, and Brad Kaplan. Executive producers are Queen Latifah, Shakim Compere, Ben Pugh, Erica Steinberg, and Daniel Jason Heffner.
Watch the previously released End of the Road trailer below.
End Of The Road (2022) Chris Bridges as Reggie, Shaun Dixon as Cam, Mychala Faith Lee...
Netflix previews, “In this high-octane action thriller, a cross-country road trip becomes a highway to hell for Brenda and her family. Alone in the New Mexico desert, they have to fight for their lives when they become the targets of a mysterious killer.”
Beau Bridges, Mychala Faith Lee, Shaun Dixon, and Frances Lee McCain also star.
Millicent Shelton directed the thriller, written by Christopher J. Moore and David Loughery.
Producers include Tracey E. Edmonds, Mark Burg, and Brad Kaplan. Executive producers are Queen Latifah, Shakim Compere, Ben Pugh, Erica Steinberg, and Daniel Jason Heffner.
Watch the previously released End of the Road trailer below.
End Of The Road (2022) Chris Bridges as Reggie, Shaun Dixon as Cam, Mychala Faith Lee...
- 9/6/2022
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
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