‘It Ends’ Review: A Brilliant, Existential Road Thriller for and by Gen Z
variety.comSiddhant Adlakha In Alexander Ullom’s “It Ends,” four friends fresh out of college find themselves on a road with no exits.
It’s Jean-Paul Sartre with a Gen Z spin, a hangout horror movie rife with existential anxieties that cinema and television have been wrestling with since their inception — from Luis Buñuel to “The Good Place” — and which philosophers have pondered for much longer.
That said, don’t let the familiarity of its premise fool you. It’s first and foremost a streamlined, low-budget genre thriller, albeit one whose overtly pulpy flourishes gradually reveal something more tonally surprising, dramatically complex and immensely promising for all the young talent involved.
What’s immediately striking is how quickly and economically its characters are established in medias res, through seemingly banal conversation and hints of individual personality just divergent enough to cause friction.
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