Review of Road Hard (2015) by Eason T — 20 Mar 2015

I'm a big fan of Adam Carolla. I have bought his books and Mangria. I listen to the a couple of his podcasts regularly. I liked The Hammer. Road Hard was not a good movie. In the theater that I was in (Saturday at 7:30 on opening weekend in Dallas), there were not many laughs. I laughed at a couple of inside jokes from the podcast, but my girlfriend did not laugh once.

The end of the movie was a catastrophe. When you shit the bed at the end like that, it leaves everyone with a sour taste. That's a huge part of the problem of this movie. The romance did not work at all and so the ending is unearned. The carpentry thing sort of makes sense, but the romantic component of that was a failure. Adam is not a great story teller. And Hench isn't either. That's no sin, but maybe it means that they should stick to others' material.

Although, acting-wise, maybe Adam shouldn't do any material. He talks a lot about how easy it is to act, but he did not pull it off. It's made worse by the presence of guys like DAG and Koechner, who can act. So what happens is that, in scene, there is a character that feels real and there is one that feels like someone trying to act real. In this case, the protagonist is the character that never feels real, which is a problem.

I'm sorry to have to post this, but Adam seems to think there are all of these other reasons that people don't like Road Hard, but there aren't any other reasons -- it's just a shitty movie.