The Road
Academy Award-nominee Viggo Mortensen leads an all-star cast featuring Charlize Theron, Robert Duvall, Guy Pearce and young newcomer Kodi Smit-McPhee in this epic post-apocalyptic tale of the survival of a father (Mortsensen) and his young son (Smit-McPhee) as they journey across a barren America that was destroyed by a mysterious cataclysm.
It is indeed a beautiful and grim portrayal of a father and son's struggle through Earth's devastating post-apocalyptic wasteland where not much of civility and humanity remains. While the main characters' ultimate goal is simply to survive, nothing much of the character, plot or pace are fully developed and it is simply going through from scenarios to scenarios facing almost the same kind of dilemmas it presents. For a movie that is masterfully shot and told, there are spots of weak dialogues and forced emotions. Viggo did a great job portraying the protective and loving father, placed in an impossible position, but Kodi's performance, to me, doesn't quite match with Viggo's and sometimes you'll get simply annoyed by his actions and personality. It is a hard look especially with humanity turning to cannibalism and people choosing suicide, but it isn't really a hard ride down the road.
3 out of 5 stars
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