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Starring: Queen Latifah, Chris ‘Ludacris’ Bridges, Beau Bridges, Mychala Faith Lee, Shaun Dixon, Frances Lee McCain
OUR RATING: ★★☆☆☆
Story:
Netflix action thriller directed by Millicent Shelton. End of the Road (2022) follows recently widowed mom Brenda (Queen Latifah), who relocates across the country with her kids and brother, Reggie (Chris ‘Ludacris’ Bridges). The family’s move is thrown into complete chaos when they witness a murder on their road trip. Alone in the New Mexico desert, they have to fight for their lives when they become the targets of a mysterious killer, who will stop at nothing to find them.
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'A house ain't a home. Home is us. As long as we're together, none of us are ever homeless.' - Brenda (End of the Road) Click To Tweet
Best Quotes
Kelly: Just so you know, you’re ruining my life.
Brenda: Well, thank you for sharing. Where’s your uncle?
Kelly: I don’t know. The string I tied to him broke.
Brenda: Chill with the smart mouth, okay?
Brenda: Where you been?
Reggie: I was just saying some last-minute goodbyes.
Brenda: Really? Because you smell like you’ve been smoking weed.
Reggie: What? You tripping. That’s my new body spray.
Reggie: Now what kind of uncle shares a joint with his teenage niece?
Kelly: The kind sitting right in front of me.
Reggie: One and done. Puff and pass.
Brenda: Heavenly Father, please bless and protect us on our journey to our new life. In your name, we pray. Amen.
Kelly: Mom, what’s wrong?
Brenda: Nobody has said a word in three and a half hours.
Brenda: And I was hoping we could be like other families and converse. You know, talk.
Kelly: No. Why?
Brenda: Because that’s what families do on car trips. Yeah, I know, right? It’s crazy. But people joke. They sing songs. They play car games.
Reggie: No, that’s what they do in the movies.
Cam: Yeah. Mom, I think you’ve mistaken this for 1983.
Cam: My declarative statement is moving to Texas sucks.
Kelly: I agree. Look at that! End of conversation, right?
Reggie: That’s right.
Brenda: You got that. Whatever. Bunch of lightweights.
Cam: Question is, do any Black people live in Houston, or will it just be us?
Brenda: Do any Black people live in Houston? What? You ain’t heard of Megan Thee Stallion? Yes, you have. I know you have. How about Destiny’s Child?
Cam: Who was they?
Brenda: Willie D!
Reggie: Scarface.
Brenda: Scarface, see? Geto Boys.
Cam: I don’t even know who those people are.
Brenda: Come on.
Cam: Who are those people?
Brenda: You need to study hip-hop history.
Reggie: Well, this is some serious Area 51 s**t out here. Y’all know what happens next, right? The car’s going to stall out, then we’ll get hit by a tractor beam, and lifted up in a UFO.
Kelly: Oh, my God.
Reggie: Next, we’ll be strapped down on our stomachs with big-eyed aliens probing our a**.
Cam: They won’t do that to you, Uncle Reggie.
Reggie: Why not?
Cam: Because the aliens only want to study intelligent life-forms.
Reggie: Intelligence can be such a burden sometimes.
Kelly: Yeah. Especially to the people around you.
Kelly: You know we love you. Okay? You’re our little teddy bear.
Reggie: Get off. Get off me. Whatever. I just ain’t lived up to my full potential yet. One day, I’m going to surprise every damn body. Even myself.
Brenda: It’s a different world out here.
Cam: Those guys today, were they going to hurt us?
Brenda: I don’t think so. They were mean, stupid white boys, doing what mean, stupid white boys do.
'Intelligence can be such a burden sometimes.' - Reggie, 'Yeah. Especially to the people around you.' - Kelly (End of the Road) Click To Tweet
Cam: Are we homeless people?
Brenda: What?
Cam: Because technically, we don’t have a home.
Brenda: Listen, little man. It’s not your job to worry about things like that. It’s your job to be a kid, and it’s my job to be your mom, and make sure that you and your sister are taken care of. Okay?
Cam: Will we ever have a home again?
Brenda: We will. But, you know, a house ain’t a home. Home is us. You, Kelly, Reggie, me. As long as we’re together, none of us are ever homeless.
Reggie: Family announcement. Nobody, I mean, nobody go in that bathroom for at least two hours. It’s probably smart to wear a hazmat suit too. Just a fair warning. Do I look lighter?
Brenda: Everybody, just get some sleep. We got a long day ahead of us on the road tomorrow.
Kelly: Yeah, like I’ll sleep when Reggie starts snoring.
Reggie: Hey! Now you know I don’t snore.
Kelly: And Kim Kardashian’s butt is real.
Cam: Uncle Reggie, on the Richter scale, you’re like an eight point five.
Reggie: You know y’all are adopted, right?
Cam: What?
Reggie: [as they hear noises from the next room] What the hell is going on? Somebody throwing a party or something?
Brenda: It’s four in the morning, Reg.
Reggie: That’s when the best parties get started.
'All money is not good money.' - Brenda (End of the Road) Click To Tweet
Hammers: I want to talk to the folks staying next door.
Officer: Nice family of four. I let them go, sir.
Hammers: Let them go?
Hammers: Son, how many murders have you investigated?
Officer: One.
Hammers: If that family can ID the killer’s voice, then they are in danger. And you’re going to have four more murders on your conscience. I need to talk to that family.
Hammers: [over phone] I need you to come back.
Brenda: I’m sorry, Captain. I just want to get my family as far away from that motel as possible.
Hammers: I got a bad feeling about this.
Val (Distorted Voice): [over phone] We know what you did. We know what you took.
Brenda: I think you got the wrong number.
Val (Distorted Voice): Don’t hang up, Brenda.
Brenda: How do you know my name?
Val (Distorted Voice): Boss man wants his money, Brenda.
Brenda: Excuse me? What money?
Val (Distorted Voice): You took his money and he wants it back.
Brenda: I don’t know what you talking about. Don’t call me back anymore.
Reggie: All my life, everybody say I’m the family f***-up, right?
Brenda: No comment.
Reggie: This time, Reggie ain’t the problem. Reggie’s the solution.
Brenda: [referring to the bag of money Reggie took] Have you lost your damn mind?
Reggie: Bren, the dude was dead. I mean, like his heart had stopped.
Brenda: I’m a nurse! I know what a dead dude is. And you thought you were just going to take this, and make our lives better?
Reggie: This money could save our lives.
Brenda: It can end our lives!
Reggie: Bren, just say thank you. Stop looking on the dark side.
Reggie: [referring to the bag of money] He ain’t going to coming back for this.
Brenda: And what if he does? Huh? What, are you going to turn into some street gangster? Instead of the assistant manager at Chick-fil-A?
Reggie: Hey, that’s an elite position. Okay? I had to work my way up to that. You know how many drug tests I had to pass? That hurt.
Brenda: We are not criminals.
Reggie: We the next best thing. We Black.
'Seems like every day the man upstairs is testing us.' - Brenda (End of the Road) Click To Tweet
Brenda: [over phone] We have your money. We want to give it back.
Val (Distorted Voice): Where are you?
Brenda: I’m not going to tell you that.
Val (Distorted Voice): Worried about your family? You should be.
Reggie: [to Brenda] You’re right. You have every right to be angry. Let’s just keep half the money.
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