191 - Scenic Route

    Two old friends are on a trip together.  While driving through the desert, their car breaks down, and tempers flare as they try to survive.
    The summary made me a little hesitant, but it had a pretty good rating on Netflix.  It's better than I expected.
    The initial argument that sets things off is handled well.  They have appropriate things to argue about, and it doesn't come across like a desperate effort.  There's nothing worse than sitting through a movie argument and thinking "why are they arguing about this?  No one would think this is worth yelling about."  The characters are drawn reasonably well.  They sound like older friends, with a sense of length to their relationship.
    The one thing that doesn't ring true is the number of times that they miss getting help.  I also don't think that their sense of panic sets in the way that it should.
    This is a hard movie to feel like it's perfect.  It's mostly a two-man show, and those can be remarkably difficult to pull off.  They really did a good job with this.
    The ending is a hard thing to place.  It's intentionally ambiguous, and it didn't bother me at first.  The happy ending is probably a bit better than the sad ending, but I don't feel like the sad ending is particularly bad.