Quickie: The Road
The Road (2009)–**
Quickie Review
A father and son struggle to survive in an ashen wasteland left after an unknown cataclysm destroys the world as we know it. Director John Hillcoat treats this adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece like a Harry Potter book, focusing on the bleak landscape and atmospheric details rather than trying to get to the heart of the story. With sparse dialogue and detrimentally understated performances, The Road does better keeping people out of the characters’ minds than it does welcoming them in. Starring Viggo Mortensen, Charlize Theron, Robert Duvall, Michael Kenneth Williams, Garet Dillahunt and Kodi Smit-McPhee.
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