Watch Scenic Route For Free

Strong and Moving!

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

It's difficult to explain in words how much of an impression this movie can leave on someone, especially if that someone doesn't think philosophically on a regular basis. This is an absolute must- watch for everyone. It's so raw and real, its portrayal of human emotions and the way we live in modern society and the effects that society has on us, the way we look at situations and other people... not to mention the utterly mind-blowing conclusion. I'd like to think of it as an open thought experiment, poking viewers to think of themselves in a predicament like the one the two main characters find themselves in, how they would act or react, and analyze their own frame of mind and how they look at the world around them. I can't emphasize enough. Watch this movie! It may even change your life.

Just like Death Valley National Park where Scenic Route was filmed. I was actually in the park while Scenic Route was being filmed. I drove by the main scenes location several times and even stopped to watch the shoot for a few minutes. For people like me who love this national park, the movie is good for two reasons, the story is plausible and the locations are familiar. Not Oscar material here but still well worth watching. For anyone who has driven or explored the area between Beatty, Nevada and Furnace Creek inside the park, the movie will be entertaining due to the dialog, action and acting but also due to the scenery and backdrops that come into view. Once or twice the local cops stopped traffic for a few minutes while a scene was being shot. Fun to see the wardrobe, catering and support crew out in the middle of a lonely stretch of highway. This movie brings life to Death Valley!

Movie has a good start and has a well knitted hook at the beginning. When I watched its trailer, I wanted to see it as soon as possible and was very excited at the beginning when the movie started but slowly towards the middle, it started slowing down. Only blood fight between characters for no reason. Bornign and very slow in the middle. I was almost going to shut down the movie in the middle. The ending of the movie is fantastic. I gave 3/10 just based on its starting and ending. Watch it if you have patience.Direction is okay, story is good but script writing and direction is weak.

The film opens with Mitchell and Carter beating the nonsense out of each other. Mitchell prevails, and Carter looks either knocked out or possibly dead.We jump back in time, and I'm quite ready to stop watching, given what I know will happen. So, in the real opening of the film, Mitchell is sleeping, and Carter is driving an old truck through Death Valley, California. The truck is old, and it breaks down; unfortunately, this turns out to be by design. At least they are not sweating initially. Mitchell has a broken foot and uses crutches. Neither of them has a cell phone signal. It's not that cool: one hundred and fifteen degrees.They are in the middle of nowhere, sixty miles from the last town, one hundred miles to the next. Mitchell has a wife and child, but still thinks about another woman named Karen. Carter met Karen lately, and she wanted to talk about Mitchell. Mitchell is tall and athletic; Carter is middle height and heavy. From their consternation with each other, I do not see why they are ever doing anything together for a single moment.There is a lot of talk which uncovers issues. These issues make the two characters angry at each other, and explains the violence shown in the opening sequence. One of the issues is that Carter sabotages every possibility of their getting rescued. This is mortally stupid. How can anyone care about such a character who betrays his friend to the point of death? How can anyone care about the friend who allows the betrayal?The pile of incidences of bonehead stupidity mount. Carter talks Mitchell into getting a Mohawk haircut in the dark using a hand tool. They drink windshield wiper fluid because it's wet; later they are puking while possible help drives by. The next day, an elderly lady stops to see how they are doing, but drives away after seeing Mitchell's Mohawk with accompanying long cuts and blood stains. Carter gives him hell for scaring her away. A day or so later, they miss a tow truck that stopped next to the truck to render assistance.If this is your cup of tea, be sure to watch the entire film. The pile continues to grow.------Scores-------Cinematography: 2/10 The scenery is ugly, whereas Death Valley showed me a number of lovely sights in the short time I spent there. Looks like ugly by choice.Sound: 8/10 Not bad.Acting: 4/10 Josh Duhamel was OK, but not great. Dan Fogler was totally useless. I had never heard of him before; now he's on my deal-breaker list.Screenplay: 0/10 Why would anyone care about either character in this two man film? They are painted as traitor and fool with nothing interesting about either of them.