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Road to Perdition

2002

Sam Mendes

Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Jude Law, Tyler Hoechlin ...

7.6

84,580

Film noir. Mystery. Drama 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 Rooney (Paul Newman). The mobsters close bond with Sullivan, however, leads Rooneys jealous blood son, Connor (Daniel Craig), to orchestrate a tragic series of events that results in Sullivan on the run with his 12-year-old son, Michael Jr. (Tyler Hoechlin). Soon an unscrupulous crime ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Stephen Holden The New York Times	"A truly majestic visual tone poem"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"It is wonderfully acted. And no movie this year will be more praised for its cinematography (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"The result is classy entertainment in which women play only decorative parts at best, very shrewdly and cleverly put together"	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"Of all the film’s accomplished creative contributions, certainly the most notable is Conrad Hall’s extraordinary cinematography"	POS
United Kingdom	Mike Goodridge Screendaily	"[It] confirms [Mendes's] command of the medium and his signature visual bravado (...) Mendes elicits superb performances from actors"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"This has been another terrifically confident achievement from Sam Mendes (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"The passion and precision of [this] work is staggering (...) Hanks is quietly devastating (...) This stunner gets under your skin. Put 'Road' on the short list for Best Movie of 2002."	POS
United States	Ed Gonzalez Slant	"For every evocative spray of blood, the story still carries about as much weight as a 12-year-old boy’s book report on why he loves his daddy (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Ian Nathan Empire	"Chastely violent and sombre, the movie is a blood-rush of visual magnificence (...) This is supremely crafted, grown-up moviemaking (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Keith Phipps AV Club	"The properties around the story, the characters and the style, are what matter and what make the film so engrossing and ultimately moving"	POS

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