Dan Summers and his pregnant wife, Mindy, fight for their lives when they are held hostage in their car by an unseen gunman on the side of a desolate mountain road.Dan Summers and his pregnant wife, Mindy, fight for their lives when they are held hostage in their car by an unseen gunman on the side of a desolate mountain road.Dan Summers and his pregnant wife, Mindy, fight for their lives when they are held hostage in their car by an unseen gunman on the side of a desolate mountain road.
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This movie was decent at the beginning but completely dropped off during the first 20 minutes or so. There was no character development of either the main characters or the antagonist. The ending was completely predictable and way too stupid.
Don't waste your time.
Don't waste your time.
ROADSIDE is a cheapjack horror/thriller combo about a couple who go out driving one night and end up being stranded in their car by a sniper lurking in the woods. It's a low budget suspense movie that clearly wants to be the next PHONE BOOTH, but the single location set-up of the thing is all it has going for it.
Instead this is a boring film filled with unlikeable characters and overwrought acting. Nothing much happens for long stretches and attempts at suspense fall flat over and over again. It doesn't help that you don't give a fig for the characters supposedly in peril while the villain of the piece is equally dull and yawnsome. Lots of shooting-in-the-dark cinematography follows, leaving viewers to squint their eyes and wonder why they're still watching until the final, predictable scene unfolds.
Instead this is a boring film filled with unlikeable characters and overwrought acting. Nothing much happens for long stretches and attempts at suspense fall flat over and over again. It doesn't help that you don't give a fig for the characters supposedly in peril while the villain of the piece is equally dull and yawnsome. Lots of shooting-in-the-dark cinematography follows, leaving viewers to squint their eyes and wonder why they're still watching until the final, predictable scene unfolds.
Another disappointing movie.
There was just no passion or love behind this paint-by-the-numbers thriller.
The production values were good, and the night shots looked well for a low-budget movie. The actors were competent, and I guess they did all they could with the script.
But the story was so unimaginative. It's hard to believe there aren't more interesting scripts floating around Hollywood out there than this. There was just nothing to it, and the ending was predictable, lazy, and disappointing. Why go through all the trouble of making a movie when you have nothing to say?
Skip this one.
Skip this one.
A couple (not so happily married, but she heavily pregnant) drives at night in icy weather towards family for a Christmas gathering, and are halted by a tree blocking the road. From out of the dark woods a male voice orders them to stay put where they are, the husband in front of the car in the freezing cold, at the threat of getting shot at, which he occasionally does. The guy stays totally anonymous, the couple has no idea why he does this or what he wants, and when asked, he only, in a soft and civilized tone, reacts with enigmatic remarks or counter questions, in the vein of: question: "why are you doing this to us?!" - answer: "why do YOU think I'm doing this to you?" and so on and on.
This weird stalemate takes forever, the clock jumping from one hour to the next, without hardly anything remotely interesting happening, besides the couple furtively trying to communicate to think of a way out. As a bonus we learn some bits about their marital problems. The whole thing finally ends with a very cliché last scene that was totally predictable. Both main characters are extremely unsympathetic, so you couldn't care less what happens to them, and the baddie sounds way too civilized to raise the intended feeling of a horrifying threat. The whole thing is so repetitive and low on action that it became seriously tedious and the opposite of scary, so as a horror flick it failed on all accounts.
This weird stalemate takes forever, the clock jumping from one hour to the next, without hardly anything remotely interesting happening, besides the couple furtively trying to communicate to think of a way out. As a bonus we learn some bits about their marital problems. The whole thing finally ends with a very cliché last scene that was totally predictable. Both main characters are extremely unsympathetic, so you couldn't care less what happens to them, and the baddie sounds way too civilized to raise the intended feeling of a horrifying threat. The whole thing is so repetitive and low on action that it became seriously tedious and the opposite of scary, so as a horror flick it failed on all accounts.
Please, do not throw an hour and a half of your life away on this film. The only good outcome is that my wife forgave me for talking her into watching it.
Did you know
- TriviaWriter/Director Eric England shot this film a year before Contracted even though it was released almost year after.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Half in the Bag: Snow Falls (2023) (2023)
Details
- Runtime
- 1h 21m(81 min)
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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