Following on with the Post Apocolyptic genre, I watched The Road last night. I did not read the book but talked to a few that did.

This is another dark, dreary, low budget film. The plot is simple, a father and son walk south towards the coast in hopes of finding food or people who are not canibals. (hmmm, Eli walked West) Along the way they meet up with some pretty whacky characters including a lone traveler named Ely. (Pretty close to a wandering traveler named Eli in another movie)

In the start of the movie, as they travel down the burned out road, they approach a overpass bridge. It eerily looks just like the tunnel/bridge in the opening of Eli. Were both of these movies filmed on the same Hollywood back lot?

Overall, the movie held my interest throughout and had a couple hair raising scenes. The worst part of the movie, much the same as the book, is that it has no ending. It just leaves you sitting there wondering. We never find out if anyone lived happily ever after.

Is this the sign of a bad writer, to write a long story only to have no real ending?

What did the rest of you think about this one?