It Ends (2025) Review - One Of The BEST Films This Year!

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It Ends (2025) Review - One Of The BEST Films This Year! I talk SPOILER FREE about the movie. How it made me feel without spoiling a single thing. This movie really deserves your attention. Friends on a late-night food run become trapped on an infinite highway with otherworldly terrors lurking beyond. Confined in their Jeep Cherokee, they must decide whether to accept their fate or attempt escape. OUT NOW on Letterboxed RENTAL
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0:00 Imagine you're driving down the road at
0:02 night with a few of your friends to a
0:04 destination. A destination that you may
0:08 never reach.
0:09 A destination that tells you to take the
0:12 next right on your GPS 3 mi ahead.
0:17 And when you go [music] to take that
0:19 right, that road never shows itself.
0:24 So, you double back, thinking you might
0:27 have missed the turn, [music] not paying
0:28 attention to the GPS.
0:32 And when you drive back, you never see a
0:34 turn again.
0:37 So, you double back
0:40 and the [music] road ends. You're
0:42 trapped on an infinite highway
0:45 forever.
0:51 >> Let's get into it.
0:55 >> [music]
1:00 [music]
1:04 >> What's up, guys? And welcome back to
1:06 Beyond the Void. My name is Alex and
1:09 today we're going to be doing a
1:10 spoiler-free review of It Ends, a movie
1:15 that was at the festivals that some of
1:18 us got to see, but many of us have not.
1:21 Thanks to Letterbox, the application on
1:23 your phone for a lot of horror movie
1:25 buffs as well as just movie buffs in
1:27 general, they started a new service that
1:30 you can actually rent festival films
1:33 that you might have missed at the
1:34 festival or not had a chance to go to
1:37 and give it to a wider audience. This
1:40 movie is about $20 to rent on the
1:43 letterbox service and you can go and
1:45 rent it right now, which may be a little
1:48 bit of money for you, but I got to say I
1:51 really, really enjoyed this film.
1:54 Friends on a late night food run that
1:56 become trapped on an infinite highway
1:58 with otherworldly terrors lurking
2:01 beyond. Confined in their Jeep Cherokee,
2:04 they must decide whether to accept their
2:06 fate or attempt an escape. But will it
2:10 matter? This is a directorial debut from
2:13 Alex Ulam, who is currently working on
2:16 another film called 4x4, which is
2:18 supposed to be some sort of battle
2:20 royale experience, which if it's as good
2:24 as this movie is going to just blow my
2:27 mind because this one I really loved.
2:31 Now, I want to be as vague as possible
2:32 about this movie because I really feel
2:34 like it's a movie that you just need to
2:35 kind of take the jump and just
2:37 experience for yourself. But I also want
2:39 to set some, you know, mild expectations
2:43 maybe that you might want to just
2:44 alleviate. And that is that, you know,
2:47 this is an indie film. So it is an indie
2:49 budget film that is going to be doing a
2:51 lot with very little. And so your
2:54 expectation levels can't be at a Marvel
2:56 movie experience. But the depth of this
2:59 movie is some of the best film making I
3:02 think from indie filmmakers that you can
3:05 make. And not always do you need $120
3:09 million to experience that. This isn't a
3:12 pure horror film. This is what they
3:14 consider to be a fantasy horror sci-fi
3:18 thriller. I could say that this
3:20 definitely has all those vibes in it.
3:22 Now, I also want to mention that there
3:24 is no trailer for this movie, so I can't
3:26 intercut it with pictures and videos and
3:29 all that other stuff, but just
3:30 understand I can't add stuff I don't
3:32 have, and I don't want to spoil anything
3:34 anyway. So, I don't want to show you
3:35 anything. You just need to experience
3:37 it. Now, this movie hit me pretty hard
3:39 and I really enjoyed it quite a bit. I
3:41 personally feel that this is a movie
3:43 that everyone can relate to. Like, this
3:46 feels like a Twilight Zone movie, a
3:50 really cool, hookie, you know,
3:52 interesting story idea that is going to
3:54 have several thrilling, scary, happy,
3:58 sad, a myriad of different emotional
4:00 like charges in this film. But there is
4:03 going to be a pocket of people that may
4:05 not be wanting something of this
4:07 emotional depth. But I think is a
4:10 wonderful film and an incredible
4:12 experience that I had. All I can do is
4:15 just be as honest and emotionally honest
4:18 as I possibly can be about my
4:20 experience. But I hope people will give
4:22 it a shot. Probably one of the better
4:25 indie films for someone to debut on. And
4:28 it really proves that you can make a
4:31 really good film without millions of
4:34 dollars. It also is a lot deeper than I
4:38 think some people might actually have
4:40 the emotional capacity to experience.
4:44 And that's not to be rude or mean, but
4:47 there are people out there that only
4:49 just like to see things as they are.
4:51 They don't want something profound. They
4:53 don't want to seek deeper. They just
4:55 want something to get through the day
4:57 because it's been a bad day. And I get
4:58 it. It's totally fine. And boy, by the
5:01 end of this movie, this movie packs a
5:04 punch that literally made me think back
5:07 on my entire life, what my goals are,
5:10 and what this actually means. And to me,
5:13 that's super impactful for a movie that
5:16 on a directorial debut had me
5:20 emotionally attached to the film in a
5:22 way that actually made me want to shed a
5:24 tear. I know that some of you out there
5:27 don't like when I get too excited about
5:29 a film. In my heart of hearts, I feel
5:32 like this is a movie that everyone can
5:35 relate to in some way. But the longer in
5:39 the tooth you are in life, it'll
5:42 probably affect you a little bit more.
5:44 You might have to have a little bit of
5:45 loss or, you know, experience under your
5:48 belt in order to really truly appreciate
5:50 the the the film that this is. This
5:52 movie really starts off with just a
5:55 regular bunch of kids who are out on an
5:57 adventure and suddenly boom, they hit
6:00 the Twilight Zone. They're driving down
6:01 the road. They they think they miss a
6:04 turn, but they didn't. The GPS says go
6:06 straight even though the road ends. And
6:09 they find out that they're trapped on
6:10 this road forever. There are some things
6:13 that happen in the story that I'm not
6:14 even going to mention. That alone should
6:16 be enough to make you interested in the
6:18 film. in my personal opinion, knowing
6:21 that it's an indie film made on really
6:23 just nothing with a cast that I
6:26 personally didn't recognize, but I think
6:28 did a really fantastic job of playing
6:30 different types of people, friends that
6:33 you might have in your own personal
6:34 friend group or people that you've met
6:36 in your life along the way. I thought
6:39 this was going to be just some simple,
6:41 cool, weird, maybe even scary, and it is
6:45 scary at times, by the way, just
6:47 straightforward horror film that was
6:49 going to make me think about things and
6:51 like get really excited about it. And it
6:54 did all of those things, but it's more
6:56 than that. And that's why I think this
6:58 movie really excels because to me cinema
7:02 and film making there are different
7:04 types of films made for different types
7:06 of situations and sometimes a movie
7:09 might just blow through the atmosphere
7:11 and reach us on an emotional level that
7:14 connects us to this film forever and I
7:16 think that's kind of the magic of film
7:18 is that we have just about every
7:20 experience you can think of for film
7:22 making but I think truly the best films
7:25 are the ones that really reach us deep
7:27 inside and make us look at ourselves and
7:31 the movie reflects us in their film
7:34 which you know not every film's going to
7:36 make you know you reflect on something
7:38 because you may not have experienced it.
7:40 This director is like a very young
7:42 director. He's got some pretty great
7:45 ideas and I think you know is kind of an
7:48 old soul. They say that for a lot of
7:50 people who feel like they've experienced
7:52 life in a deeper way than the years that
7:55 they've actually experienced. It's
7:57 almost like they have insight into the
7:59 future and of past lives. They say to
8:03 experience what life is about. And this
8:05 one just really affected me on a
8:08 personal level. And it made me just
8:10 smile and also kind of reflect on my own
8:13 personal life. And for that, I say this
8:16 is a easy eight and a half, nine out of
8:19 10. There's going to be some people, and
8:21 I saw a review online that drove me
8:23 absolutely insane that gave it a 1 out
8:26 of 10 and it just frustrates the hell
8:28 out of me just because you don't like
8:30 it. Like is just a little percentage of
8:33 the movie. There is great acting. There
8:36 is great shots. There are great ideas,
8:38 storyw writing, and elements [music] in
8:40 this movie that are worth more than a
8:44 one out of 10. And that alone should
8:46 give you a better score for a movie like
8:48 this, even if you didn't like it. This
8:50 isn't Netflix like or dislike. And it
8:53 made me appreciate it in a way that is
8:55 much deeper than many films I've seen
8:58 this year. I think there's another movie
8:59 I watched this year called Else. And if
9:02 you like these kind of films that really
9:03 kind of resonate with you and make you
9:06 feel like a part of the film in some
9:08 way, I highly recommend you check out
9:10 the movie else as well. These are both
9:13 fantastic films, incredible film making
9:16 that I think you should check out. And
9:18 with this movie, it ends. I'm not going
9:20 to promise that it's going to be a 10
9:22 out of 10 for everybody here or a 9 out
9:24 of 10 or an 8 out of 10, but I think it
9:26 should resonate with most of the crowd
9:28 fairly well. But yeah, congratulations
9:31 to Alex Ulam. I cannot wait to see your
9:34 next movie and I would love to have the
9:36 chance to sit down and do a spoiler
9:39 review of this movie. I was so wrapped
9:41 up in what was happening by the end of
9:44 the film when it reveals its ending to
9:46 you, the end of this neverending
9:49 highway. It really had an impact on me
9:52 and I thank you for that. You know, this
9:54 really makes me happy about film making,
9:57 indie film making in particular. If
9:59 you're going to make an indie film, I
10:00 would highly recommend you watch
10:02 something like this to start coming up
10:04 with an idea that isn't going to cost
10:06 you a whole lot of money and has a huge
10:08 impact. But yeah, if you want to rent
10:10 the movie, you can do so with Letterbox.
10:12 It's on an application for your phone or
10:14 you can do it through the website. It's
10:16 totally free to sign up and it does cost
10:18 money to rent the movie which you go to
10:20 the movie itself. it ends and it will
10:23 have a section that says rent movie and
10:25 you could do so for 20 bucks which I
10:27 realize is a lot but you know you're not
10:29 going to be able to see this anywhere
10:30 else. It truly is an original that
10:32 you're not going to get anywhere else.
10:34 So, I'm glad I got a chance to see it,
10:36 but that's why I did it. I watched this
10:38 so that I could tell you guys what to
10:40 think about it and if it's worth the $20
10:42 to you or not. I personally would love
10:44 to own a copy of this and I hope they
10:46 make a a a 4K or whatever of this soon
10:50 because I can't wait to see it again.
10:51 But yeah, let me know what you think in
10:53 the comments section down below about
10:54 anything I had to discuss about did you
10:56 see it? Have you had the same experience
10:59 as me? Did it not resonate with you? Do
11:01 you not connect with the material? It's
11:03 all good. Everybody has their own
11:05 opinions and I totally respect it. We're
11:07 all here to find stuff that we love and
11:09 I hope I can help you find that. So, if
11:12 this movie doesn't hit for you, I'll
11:13 find one for you next time. But thanks
11:15 for coming by and as always, long live
11:18 the void. [music]
11:26 [music]