“The Roads Not Taken” (** out of four) was a gloomy melodrama about 24 hours in the life of an elderly man (Javier Bardem) wrestling with older age and health problems and continues to consider alternate lives he could have had while his concerned daughter (Elle Fanning) considers her future and both of their well-being. Curiously unmoving story never really engages your emotions and never reveals much about its principal characters or their past. Both Laura Linney and Salma Hayek are wasted in throwaway roles. Bardem is solid as always but this itself is a road you may not want to take.