The Road to Perdition

[Metal_Slug]

Hell of a good movie.

This is my favorite movie this year so far... I enjoyed it even more than Minority Report.

Great story. Never slowed down or got too twisted for its own good. Perfect.

Great acting and cast. How can you not love Tom Hanks? He was great. The kid was good, too.

Great style and presentation... Lots of memorable scenes and great feel... The dark and rainy settings really set the mood.

Excellence, excellence. Do see it.

[Entimann]

i saw it yesterday and i didn't think it was good at all. it was way to predictable i even knew what the lasst sentence in the movie was gonna be. don't get me wrong the acting was great so was the music and the story and the setting as well. the only thing that i had a problem with were specific parts of the story. like some of it didn't make sense



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like how the guy in the hat that takes pictures of people he kills. tom hanks could have killed him when they were in that hotel room when tom hanks is getting that file. i think that it was just written that way so that he could kill tom hanks in the end. also when tom hanks is killing all those guys in the street. you know when it is raining at night and paul newman has his back to him and he has his hand on the car. well why werethose guys just standing in the middle of the street and getting shot. why didn't they stand behind the car or something. like i understand why those things were done but it is hard for me to just move past it and appreciate the movie. to me those little details make the movie. there were other parts like this.





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also the character weren't really that developed like i didn't really care when they were killed overall the movie didn't really get me um engrossed or involved. and people were saying this movie was gonna be the next god father...wtf?

[Metal_Slug]

Heh heh, I called the last line too... But it was good.

[Green]

Powerful movie, the best I've seen this year. Jerked a few tears too. Seeing a movie (like anything) is about perspective. I didn't go in thinking I was going to see The Godfather. I was going to see the movie Harry and Moriarty at AICN saw and the movie adapted from a comic that rips off one of my favorite mangas Lone Wolf and Cub. Going in like that, I loved the movie.

[Regus]

*** out of *****

It was good, not great.
A little too predictable.
The best thing about the movie was the costume designs.
I wish people still wore fedoras today.

[Diff-chan]

I liked the movie overall. It was a bit slow in my opinion, but it was fluid and had very good acting. It was hard to imagine Tom Hanks as a gangster, but he pulled it off about as well as he could. Jude Law was amazing in his role, and I was hoping to see more of him (he brings so much personality and flair to his roles - he's probably near the same level as Edward Norton, just without Norton's breaks).

You could also see a bit of character growth as the film wore on, which always helps. And yes, the set design and cinematography was gorgeous.

The only problem I had with the film was that it got a bit slow a few times. Well... it's either that or I saw the movie too late (11:00pm on a hectic day). Fine movie, but not as good as Mendes' last film.

[Regus]

I also felt that there were a lot of superfluous scenes, such as the boys fighting at school.

[NeoZeedeater]

I think the boys fighting scene was a little necessary, to show that he's like his father in some ways.

Great movie, even if it was predictable.

[Megatron]

The movie had everything, except nothing.

[tln_decoder_x]

Road to Perdition blew me away. Yeah, it was a little too stylish for the story's good, but I appreciate technical directing just as much if not more than anything else (being a Stanley Kubrick fan). Regardless, Road to Perdition had me in its clutches from the get-go. I enjoyed the hell out of this movie. And you gotta know it'll be a shoe-in for the Oscars. Sam Mendes is one of my new favorite directors.