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- End of the Road is an entertaining end-of-summer celebration of road trips gone very wrong. Director Millicent Shelton’s long resume that spans several genres in television serves her well here in delivering a tight, emotional family drama set against an increasingly bonkers thriller backdrop.
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An action thriller that's neither action-packed nor thrilling, End of the Road wastes a pair of perfectly good stars on a bottom-of-the-barrel story. Read Critics Reviews. Queen...
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Sep 10, 2022 · Starring Queen Latifah and Chris "Ludacris" Bridges, Netflix's "End of the Road" is a social thriller that finds strength in family. Review.
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- Queen Latifah goes into Mama Bear mode in this entertaining thriller.
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By Tara Bennett
Posted: Sep 9, 2022 8:48 pm
End of the Road is now streaming on Netflix.
For a lot of families, spending part of their summer crammed together inside a car traveling somewhere far away is a rite of passage that ultimately challenges even the calmest of nerves. End of the Road takes that basic premise and layers on the agitations of a forced family relocation due to a tragic death, a route detour into racist pockets of the Southwest, and just being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Channeling similar vibes to The River Wild and Breakdown, End of the Road pits Queen Latifah against a series of escalating events that threaten the safety of her family, all of which she stares down like a Grizzly with no time for any nonsense. Director Millicent Shelton delivers a popcorn movie with some applause-worthy twists that works both as an affecting family drama and a tight little thriller.
Opening in Los Angeles on moving day, Brenda Freeman (Queen Latifah) is a recent widower forced to sell the family home for financial reasons and relocate her two kids, teen Kelly (Mychala Lee) and the younger Cameron (Shaun Dixon), to Houston. Along for the ride is her good-hearted but underachieving brother Reggie (Chris “Ludacris” Bridges). All are still nursing the fresh pain of the death of Jake, Brenda’s husband, with everyone making it known to her they are mad about the move and blame her for having to make the hard choices. Beleaguered but determined to have her family get closer on this trip, Brenda tries to bond with them as the arid skies of Arizona and New Mexico inch them closer to a new chapter. As expected, things do not go smoothly, starting with typical squabbles and then unexpected detours that place the Black Freeman family right in the path of unwelcoming patches of the very white Southwest. Bad to worse comes with a stay at a cheap hotel where a gunshot is heard in the room next door and Brenda, as a licensed nurse, goes to help and finds a man bleeding out from the neck. He turns out to be a bag man for a local crime boss named Cook and Reg makes the stupid call to swipe a bag filled with cash from the killer’s room. Of course, the baddies come looking for their money and even when Brenda tries to make it right, the dominoes of bad luck keep falling and put her entire family in mortal jeopardy.
The Freemans are given the time to feel real, which is necessary to get us behind them as the situational crap really hits the fan.
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End of the Road could have been a much dumber movie, like a whole lot of action thrillers tend to be, but screenwriters Christopher J. Moore (House Out of Order) and David Loughery (The Intruder) are able to fuse together a warm family drama with a thriller that seeds its competent characters and story logic very well, so the big turns feel earned and plausibly established. As a heroine, Brenda’s skills come from being a military brat trained well by her dad and then from her chosen career as a trauma nurse. Plus, having recently nursed her husband through cancer and left alone to shoulder her family’s fate means she’s a woman who knows how to take necessary action. So it makes sense as the situations intensify and get increasingly out of hand, Brenda can retain a cool head while everything is melting down around her.
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End of the Road is an entertaining end-of-summer celebration of road trips gone very wrong. Director Millicent Shelton’s long resume that spans several genres in television serves her well here in delivering a tight, emotional family drama set against an increasingly bonkers thriller backdrop. Keeping it all together is Queen Latifah’s crowd-pleasi...
Sep 8, 2022 · Brenda (Queen Latifah) has to make things right after her screwup brother (Chris “Ludacris” Bridges) swipes a crime syndicate’s cash in “End of the Road.”
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Sep 9, 2022 · Is the new Netflix movie End of the Road worth your time? Let’s dive in with our should you watch review of the new movie headlined by Queen Latifah. Queen Latifah (Chicago, Netflix’s Hustle, The Equalizer ) stars as Brenda in the movie about a cross-country road trip that becomes a highway to hell for Brenda and her family.
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After a tense encounter with two racist teens on a lonely desert road, the family stops for the night at an inexpensive motel. There they overhear a man being murdered and find themselves on the receiving end of threats from a local crime boss who's also involved with a Mexican drug cartel.
Sep 8, 2022 · A family of four traverses an obstacle course of Wild West crime escapades in the charming caper “End of the Road.”. Queen Latifah and Chris Bridges anchor the antics as Brenda, a mother of...
