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Mendes has made a troubling film that wrestles with big themes and touchy subjects, even if it is set in an overly familiar milieu.
Bolstered by Thomas Newman's score, spot-on set design and the brilliant source material, "Revolutionary Road" is a darkly effective portrait of an Eisenhower-era couple who fall tragically short of reaching Camelot.
If Revolutionary Road had been filmed back in 1961, when the novel came out, it would have been timely and powerful.
Bitter, nerve-wracking, ugly and relentless, Revolutionary Road is Big Drama done right, a mesmerizing look at desperate lives, wrong moves and spoiled dreams that hits hard right from the beginning and never lets up.
Viewers in the mood for rip-snorting marital combat should go ahead and partake, but they must prepare to leave the theatre in a state of profound depression.
Unlike the novel, which you can set aside and take a break, with the film version of Revolutionary Road, you're in for the duration, and it's ultimately too much to take.
These people are not tragic, they're not even pathetic - they're fountains of soap-opera profundities.
From the director of American Beauty comes another empty, fake-meaningful tale of how rotten it is in the suburbs.
... far beyond deconstructing the man in the gray flannel suit. ... [writer Richard Yates] explored ways we acquire and define our identities from people we love, and how we set our lives on self-deceptive and self-destructive courses.
Revolutionary Road offers nothing you can't see on TV, with more compelling narratives and better performances (save for Michael Shannon).
The characters in this film are weak-willed, pathetic losers. I just couldn't muster much sympathy for the characters that couldn't burst out of the cages of their own design.
Revolutionary Road is content to stick with hoary cliches about the emptiness of middle-class bourgeois life.
Middlebrow self-consciousness
It's hard to shake the feeling that this is merely a lesser rehash of Mendes' more accomplished film American Beauty.
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... Revolutionary Road suggests that Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet's hearts would not have gone on had they survived the sinking of the Titanic ....
It plays like Douglas Sirk without the irony.
Not a very revolutionary film, but the focus of the DVD's bonus features is rightfully on Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio's titanic emotional performances.
Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, play the young couple, so you know you're in for some heavy drama. (Blu-ray Edition)
At any moment, we expect the depressed, chain smoking gilded cage suburban house pet Kate to morph into Sylvia Plath, poised to stick her head in the oven, a premature free spirit bloodied Christ figure imprisoned behind a window in a breezy hollow world.
A road to ruin paved more by mindless conformity than by good intentions.
...more of a sedate lecture on values than a revealing or entertaining look at life and love.
Can't tell whether Mendes speaks through his characters or speaks about them
Similar yet better domestic dramas that come to mind for comparison purposes include "In the Bedroom," "Little Children" and "American Beauty."
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