#THE OPEN ROAD MOVIE#

So there you have it: an okay Made-for-TV movie. The journey thing trumps all and as you know journeys bond people. There are some dime-store philosophies given out at various moments, but nothing noteworthy to report. The OpenROAD project attacks the barriers of Cost, Expertise and Uncertainty (i.e., Risk) that block the feasibility of hardware design in advanced. Yes, it was an H3, the smaller one, but still. If you are going to take a long trip why would you ever consider renting a gas guzzling Hummer. I still maintain he is one of our better actors. As for Jeff Bridges, he plays what he is given and does a good job of it. Ted Danson (real life husband of Steenburgen) has a cameo in the beginning. Lyle Lovett plays a bartender and not bad, not bad at all. Timberlake is new at this and on unsteady legs, but his character is supposed to act the way he does. Afoot and lighthearted I take to the open road, healthy, free, the world before me. The open road is the school of doubt in which man learns faith in man. Kate Mara says more with her eyes than what the script gives her. Cycling is a sport of the open road and spectators are lining that road. And, Carlton, well, he isn't sure about anything. There is tension between Father and son who haven't seen each other in years and between Carlton and Lucy and she isn't sure about Carlton anymore. Yes, the situation all find themselves in does create tension.

#THE OPEN ROAD MOVIE#

But, I have never sat through a movie whereby there was tension from beginning to end. This is light drama with no good lines and absolutely no comedic moments at all. And, here we have the theme: it's the journey that's important. Long story short Carlton, Kyle and Lucy (Mara) drive to the hospital. About to undergo a delicate heart operation, Katherine (Steenburgen) asks her son Carlton (Timberlake) to get her estranged husband Kyle (Bridges) to come to her side in her hour of need.