![]() Soon Brenda is getting cryptic rings from what sounds like the caller from the Scary Movie franchise. The victim is also a goon who crossed a cloak-and-dagger villain named Mr Cross by stealing his money. ![]() In that moment, Brenda announces to her family that she’s an emergency room nurse – as if they didn’t already know – and leaps out to treat the victim to no avail. That’s where they hear a commotion and a gunshot in the room next door. ![]() They deal with some roadside microaggressions along the way before stopping at a motel in Arizona. Brenda, her level-headed teenage daughter Kelly (Mychala Faith Lee), preadolescent son Cam (Shaun Dixon) and charmingly irresponsible brother Reggie pack up in their SUV to move to Houston.Įnd of the Road is a thriller about people doing desperate things, starring Queen Latifah and Ludacris. She mortgaged their LA home to afford his chemo. Queen Latifah plays Brenda, a woman at the end of her rope, mourning her husband who recently died from cancer. Who wouldn’t enjoy watching Queen Latifah break free from zip ties with sheer might to beat down a trailer park full of neo-Nazis? The movie climaxes with her announcing, “I make my own rules.”īy the time that mic drop moment comes, End of the Road has already detoured from unconvincing thriller about people doing desperate things for a bag of cartel money into territory that’s far more goofy and parodic, though that can be pleasurable in its own right. ![]() End of the Road sets itself apart chiefly by leaning into its Black cast and crew, headlined by Queen Latifah. Maybe Reggie felt the rules in that genre don’t apply since those movies were always about white people. ![]()
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