Written by Luke Barnes
Summary
A family on a cross country road trip get on the wrong side of a sketchy group of dudes, and a cat and mouse game begins.
This film sucked hard. The social commentary of this film is so on the nose that it feels like it reaches over and hits you in the face. Nothing new is being said here and it is once again the narrative of white people are bad and are inherently out to get POC, honestly this narrative really annoys me as it is both lazy and such a broad generalisation that it kills any kind of nuanced conversation dead. I don’t doubt that there are evil groups of white people such as the ones this film present, I am sure there are many all over the world, but the way this film goes about tackling this issue never gets out of a place of race-baiting.
The performances are fairly weak across the board, I don’t think anyone in the film thinks this is going to be the film they get an Oscar for. No one hugely stood out though I would say Queen Latifah comes closest, it is nice to see her back as a headline billing, however, she can do far better than this schlock.
Overall, a thriller that goes far too hard on the racial aspect of its narrative and that doesn’t actually deliver many thrills.
Pros.
A few unintentionally funny moments
Cons.
The performances are weak
The race-baiting
The pacing is awful
It is schlock without any charm
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