Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

This film is based on the 2006 novel by American writer Cormac McCarthy. It is a post-apocalyptic tale of a journey of a father and his young son over a period of several months, across the country decimated by an unspecified cataclysm that has destroyed most of civilization and, in the intervening years, almost all life on Earth. Most everything has perished, no animals, no crops, trees are dead and only a moderate number of humans are around. The novel was awarded the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction in 2006. The book was adapted to a film of the same name in 2009, directed by John Hillcoat.The tale is of survival, the methodology behind the film is the fire we carry inside as human beings, AND the lengths they will go to survive. Viggo Mortenson's character slips us back in narration through the film. The story is bleak, the characters lost souls searching for the triumph of survival. Desolate, cringe worthy scenery and strong direction. The film may move rather slowly but it keeps you entertained by thought and visual cinematography. 9/10

One of the best movies i ever seen. Maybe becouse i cancorrelate as father. What would i do in same conditions? Would i choose path of mother or father?? Would i loose hope or would i try to survive to protect my children and how far would i go to survive? why to ask that questions? Becouse this story is very probable!In the movie we neversee what happend and we dont see spetactular explosions, movie tells a human side at catastophic event. There is no "big"speaches in it (like Few good men), jut avarage man struggling to survive. And Viggo did that job excelent!

The Road is one of those movies that to me stay true to the post apocalyptic genre of media. If a film is set in this genre and then put onto the big screen, it's usually portrayed as over the top violence, raider fights with huge mutated freaks and monsters. The Road is very different to what a lot of people expect an apocalyptic film to be. This film is based on the 2006 novel of the same name by Cormac McCarthy, which tells the tale of a father and son's journey across the state to find true shelter after the mother of the family is gone. The movie itself is centred on their relationship and their ability to survive the harshness of the wasteland in which they inhabit. The film opens up with the main character, Man (Viggo Mortensen) rising from his bed and seeing a sepia orange tint coming from the windows. His wife (Charlize Theron) is in a frantic state as she hears out to the sounds of people screaming to get to safety and then cuts to the man waking up in the new world. Not much is told about how the apocalypse came to be, other than there were series of bright flashes and lights and small concussions of energy. The wilderness perished and the landscape has completely gone. Maybe this all happened through man's use of nuclear energy, or simply the wrath of God? The whole film is dimly lit and everything the Boy and Man encounter is always dusty and dark and the only light in the film comes from the cannibals that they come across during their journey. The film is very well structured in the events leading up to the boy's birth for example as the film cuts from the present to the past and so on it gets more into detail of his birth but also showing little glimpses of the life that the man and woman both had before and after the event happened and I think it's great how that is done because it makes the viewers try to work out what could've happened that left the world in the state that it's in now. The acting is raw and the actors all deliver it so well. It makes you empathise all the way through as you just want them to have happy endings and have nothing but a quick and safe trip but it's not the case. You can feel the emotion in Mortensen's expressions as he worries constantly about the boy's safety. The boy (Kodi Smit- McPhee) knows about his condition and he knows the new life he now lives. The two characters relationship is heartbreaking and so upsetting due to how much they care for one another as they travel and that the father wants nothing but to protect the boy. He questions the viewers what they would do in his shoes when the time comes that he's in such a situation that he has to take his or his son's lives because of the new world that they inhabit. I recommend The Road to all apocalypse genre fans that want something raw and true to the form where it's not over the top action, silly characters and science fiction riddled storytelling. It's emotional, it's thought provoking and it's a well done adaptation to the novel.

I could not connect to this movie because I did not buy the story and the conflicts. There is a great focus on cannibalism and the lack of food, because everything is basically dead. I don't buy that basically everybody is driven to cannibalism. In the real world even in times of great need, the cases of cannibalism is very few. I don't think people give up and end it with suicide that often either. People tend to stick together in groups because that increases the chance of survival. No one in the film seems to be a survival expert in the movie, because I can see food everywhere in the forest.