...only half as traumatic as the Cormac McCarthy novel on which it's based - which of course means that it will still leave you a wreck.
CommentJul 15, 2010
The Road (2009)
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Reviews Counted:191
Fresh:143
Rotten:48
Average Rating:6.9/10
Consensus: The Road's commitment to Cormac McCarthy's dark vision may prove too unyielding for some, but the film benefits from hauntingly powerful performances from Viggo Mortensen and Kodi McPhee.
Rated: R [See Full Rating]
Runtime: 1 hr. 51 min.
Theatrical Release: Nov 25, 2009 Wide
Box Office: $8.0M
Synopsis: From Cormac McCarthy, author of NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN, comes the highly anticipated big screen adaptation of the beloved, best-selling and Pulitzer... [More]
Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Robert Duvall, Charlize Theron
Director: John Hillcoat
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REVIEWS FOR THE ROAD
Has an interesting thesis about morality and humanity, but lacks complexity in its approach.
Jun 8, 2010
"The images are searing, but there's little for Hillcoat to bat around besides endless agony. The Road is glacial and precise, but rarely offers the viewer something to chew on besides utter finality."
Jun 2, 2010
While identifying with characters in a bad situation is a movie must, drowning in their deep funk as much as they do, is a narrative no-no.
Jun 1, 2010
Shames most films with the audacity to consider themselves tearjerkers.
May 27, 2010
Um filme difícil e angustiante. (...) Mas, talvez mais surpreendente, representa uma experiência profundamente tocante.
May 26, 2010
In a post-Apocalypse world in which you can't tell the difference between good guys and bad guys, it's better to trust no one, and Man will do anything to protect Boy.
Mar 25, 2010
It's just a slow wander through wreckage, waiting for bad stuff to get worse.
Mar 19, 2010
The dull gray monotony of existence never looked as uninviting as it does in this film.
Mar 2, 2010
When the world goes Boom! I want Viggo Mortensen to be my dad. Who better to keep your spirits up in the hideous post-apocalyptic after life as pictured here?
Feb 8, 2010
The Road is a haunting portrait of what it means to be a parent.
Jan 31, 2010
Avoiding all the pit falls of the bleak genre, The Road is captivating and in the end inspiring, and though not a film for everyone, a great film for any who enjoy thoughtful, artful cinema.
Jan 30, 2010
Anyone looking for either an adventure or an engrossing rumination on life after The End will find it tough to see beyond the film's starkly rendered gloom.
Jan 28, 2010
A soulful and savagely beautiful meditation on the end of the world, Australian director John Hillcoat adapts Cormac McCarthy's tale of despair and faith with great delicacy and care.
Jan 27, 2010
It calls on all of one's powers of emotional endurance but it rewards the brave. It is relentless but beautiful, harrowing but tender.
Jan 26, 2010
It's the end of the world as we know it and you won't feel fine, even though The Road is fine filmmaking.
Jan 26, 2010
It is at its best recasting the apocalypse as an inexorably personal experience, an element long lacking in this genre and one happily found here.
Jan 26, 2010
This expertly crafted "road movie" does provide, thanks to the director’s brave commitment to realism, a poetic and intentionally devastating emotional viewing experience.
Jan 26, 2010
A bleak, depressing odyssey you can firmly admire and marvel at, even as it rips your heart out.
Jan 26, 2010
Hillcoat wisely uses a low-key combination of location footage and CGIs to create a sad industrial wasteland that is more reminiscent of Tarkovsky’s Stalker than Mad Max.
Jan 26, 2010
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November 24, 2009:
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September 22, 2009:
Viggo Mortensen Dismisses Retirement Rumors, Talks The Road
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September 8, 2009:
Up in the Air, The Road Impress at Telluride
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