The Road
2009 | Rated R
(based on 2 user reviews)
Official Site: www.theroad-movie.com
Director: John Hillcoat
Producer: Paula Schwartz, Steve Schwartz, Nick Wechsler, Todd Wagner, Mark Cuban, Rudd Simmons and Marc Butan
Cast: Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Charlize Theron, Robert Duvall, Guy Pearce, Molly Parker, Michael Williams and Garret Dillahunt
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It's really disappointing that you're recommending this film, which is one of the worst movies I've seen in some time. Aside from the obvious flaw in the film, the heavy-handed score, the dialogue is absurd and it's hypersentimentalized, which given the source material is quite a feat. The child in the film is not the child in the book. The child in the book is a stoic child of a post-apocalyptic age. The child in the film is a whiny, irritating brat who seems to have gotten lost on the way home from a mall in southern California and, despite the fathers comment that "this isn't anything you haven't seen before," the kid carries on like the worst thing he'd ever seen before this given moment was a food fight at daycare. It's absurd. All the praise being directed toward this movie, The Hurt Locker, and A Single Man has me wondering about some kind of global regression or some kind of wasting brain disease. The book is art but the story here is just manipulative and lurid and dumbed down by a panel of asshats from California.
Excellent film! The story was well told and suspenseful. It has a good ensemble cast and a young man who turns in a fine performance. Yes, it may be true that the subject may have been dealt with before but it was enjoyable nonetheless.
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