Based on Cormac McCarthy’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel with the same title, “The Road” stars Viggo Mortensen in a world where humanity is dead.  Viggo and his son, played by Kodi Smit-McPhee, travel a barren wasteland of what used to be the United States in efforts of reaching other people.  Before I get started, I just want to give props to Smit-McPhee for one hell of  a break out performance.

What lengths would you go to survive? Would you eat people? Would you kill someone to protect your child? Well, this movie makes you think about it.  It is an extremely well directed and acted movie with some extremely intense scenes. However, it lost me at some points and in turn lowered my opinion of the movie.

The film is slow like “Castaway” and dark like “Children of Men.” Fans of those movies will feel like they’re in Disney World when seeing this movie.  To me, films that basically have 1 or  2 people in front of the camera at all times can get slow. You kind of get sick of the same faces essentially; especially when they are in a world of nothingness.  Also, I wanted to like the characters more than I did.

“The Road” is a good movie, it’s just not great.  Check out my video review below.

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