It's Newman who really stands out. Despite his advanced years -- he's 77 -- the man still has remarkable presence.
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Road to Perdition (2002)
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Reviews Counted: 201
Fresh: 165
Rotten:36
Average Rating: 7.5/10
Consensus: Somber, stately, and beautifully mounted, Mendes' Road to Perdition is a well-crafted mob movie that explores the ties between fathers and sons.
Runtime: 1 hr 57 mins
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release: Jul 12, 2002 Wide
Box Office: $104,054,514
Synopsis: Directed by Sam Mendes and based on the graphic novel by Max Allan Collins and Richard Piers Rayner, the Depression-era crime epic ROAD TO PERDITION stars Tom Hanks as Michael Sullivan, a quiet hit man who is duty bound to Mafia boss John... [More]
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Reviews for Road to Perdition
While crisply edited and unindulgent, Mendes' work is gratifyingly old-school in its rejection of modern-day stylistic agitation, the better to achieve a slow but inexorable build to its climax.
08/08/08
Top Critic Hanks and Newman are the personification of anguish and torn loyalty in a gripping, violent film that is part character study and part cat-and-mouse chase with classic western embellishments.
08/07/08
Road is so beautiful, so well composed and so tidy in its sense of justice that it never quite gets its hands dirty enough to evoke any true emotion.
07/14/07
Sam Mendes's 2002 follow-up to American Beauty finds him every bit as adept, arty, and Oscar hungry.
04/17/07
Top Critic Ploughing a furrowed brow, Hanks is fatally miscast -- except that the story turns so sentimental and bathetic, he's actually in his element.
02/09/06
A simple parable, starkly outlined, with talented actors shading these sketches with wisdom and detail.
12/06/04
Mendes has proven that he must be counted among the greatest directors
04/02/04
Easily the best movie so far in 2002, Road to Perdition holds its own against the finest films any year has to offer.
01/07/04
Along with cinematographer Conrad L. Hall, [Sam] Mendes has crafted a film that's just as exciting to look at as it is to watch.
07/09/03
Introspective, while never feeling ponderous … The strength of the performances lies in their subtlety …long, arduous, and heartbreaking - and worth every step of the journey.
03/22/03
Una película oscura, precisa, por momentos grandiosa y casi siempre conmovedora.
03/13/03
The film feels alternately cloaked in heavy wood paneling or soaked in cold Chi-town slush.
03/10/03
This is supremely crafted, grown-up moviemaking that never escapes its pulp origins.
03/02/03
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