Weak Ending (full of spoilers obviously)

I was pretty immersed in this film and liked it, but the end was a letdown.

First, the one thing I appreciated was that the kid didn't crash the car and kill them both while speeding to help. I say that because the movie kept me wondering where it was going and felt really original until everything started to feel so Hollywood and trite at the end.

I guess it just seemed too scripted. The very same lady that saw the kids before is the one and only other person to show up on that road. It bothered me the more I thought about it too, like why would that lady drive all that way just to get a piece of pie or cup of coffee or whatever she was having at the restaurant and then drive back. That's more my nitpicking and reading too much into it with information that isn't given, but still they could've had a totally new stranger stop to investigate and move the plot forward in the same way without it feeling so convenient.

You know she's dead from the second she gets out of her car. The shootout ensues and the guys die, which didn't really bother me....except Kevin Bacon didn't die. He comes back to life for a chase scene which ends with him hitting a cow. It just felt like it belonged in a different movie what with the bad guy popping back up for one last failed attempt like a slasher film.

Also, it was so obvious what was going to happen the first time the kids bring up the idea of shooting the gun at the window. Kids playing with guns in confined spaces only leaves so many dramatic outcomes.

I don't know how I would've liked things to play out from when the Sheriff arrives at the Cop Car to the very end, but the way it does unfold just felt like the writers got lazy before they finished.