Road to Perdition (Blu-ray) R
Pray for Michael Sullivan.
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- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 56 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region A
- Released: May 9, 2017
- Originally Released: 2002
- Label: Paramount
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Tom Hanks, Paul Newman & Jude Law | |
Performer: | Tyler Hoechlin, Daniel Craig, Stanley Tucci, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Liam Aiken, Dylan Baker & Ciarán Hinds | |
Directed by | Sam Mendes | |
Edited by | Jill Bilcock | |
Screenwriting by | David Self | |
Composition by | Thomas Newman | |
Produced by | Sam Mendes, Dean Zanuck & Richard D. Zanuck | |
Director of Photography: | Conrad L. Hall | |
Executive Production by | Joan Bradshaw & Walter F. Parkes |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 2002 -
Best Cinematography: Conrad L. Hall
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 3/4 --
A beautiful elegy to a decaying world whose sadness lingers on.
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Outlook
Rating: 4/5 --
Powerful, beautiful film; ok for mature teens.
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Common Sense Media
Crisply, starchily self-conscious in its efforts to be a gangster epic. A pretty-enough remote place, with its rain and snow and fedoras and trenchcoats, but it's still a long way from Boardwalk Empire and Miller's Crossing.
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Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Alberta)
Very little of Road to Perdition lingers, except for a feeling that you've been carried along.
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The Nation
...Because it is so careful with its effects, this film's ability to create feeling sneaks up and surprises....This is a story with a will to move us and the ability to do whatever it takes to make that happen...
Los Angeles Times
...There's inventiveness, intelligence, even brilliance here...
Total Film
Ploughing a furrowed brow, Hanks is fatally miscast -- except that the story turns so sentimental and bathetic, he's actually in his element.
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Time Out
Product Description:
Directed by Sam Mendes and based on the graphic novel by Max Allan Collins and Richard Piers Rayner, 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 mobster's close bond with Sullivan, however, leads Rooney's 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 photographer/assassin named Maguire (Jude Law) is sent after Sullivan and his son, and Sullivan must decide on a course of action as young Michael comes to terms with his father's violent way of life.
Meticulously directed by Mendes and brilliantly photographed by Conrad Hall, each scene of ROAD TO PERDITION has the composition of an expertly crafted painting. Making effective use of rain, snow, and shadows, the filmmakers create a cinematic world that's as dark, cold, and unforgiving as many of its inhabitants. But the film also allows for glimpses of emotional warmth, particularly in Sullivan's relationships with his son and Rooney, his surrogate father. In these roles, the respective actors create complex characters that resonate even in their restraint. Hanks is outstanding as a man of action with little time for words, while Hoechlin creates an unsentimental portrait of a confused boy; Newman once again proves why he's a screen legend and, in a strikingly unflattering role, Law makes the most out of his screen time as a creepy, parasitic hit man. Even in its harshest moments, however, Mendes never fails to remind the audience that ROAD TO PERDITION is a film about fathers and sons; and this is what elevates it from an atmospheric gangster movie to a truly astonishing work of art.
Meticulously directed by Mendes and brilliantly photographed by Conrad Hall, each scene of ROAD TO PERDITION has the composition of an expertly crafted painting. Making effective use of rain, snow, and shadows, the filmmakers create a cinematic world that's as dark, cold, and unforgiving as many of its inhabitants. But the film also allows for glimpses of emotional warmth, particularly in Sullivan's relationships with his son and Rooney, his surrogate father. In these roles, the respective actors create complex characters that resonate even in their restraint. Hanks is outstanding as a man of action with little time for words, while Hoechlin creates an unsentimental portrait of a confused boy; Newman once again proves why he's a screen legend and, in a strikingly unflattering role, Law makes the most out of his screen time as a creepy, parasitic hit man. Even in its harshest moments, however, Mendes never fails to remind the audience that ROAD TO PERDITION is a film about fathers and sons; and this is what elevates it from an atmospheric gangster movie to a truly astonishing work of art.
Keywords:
Betrayal
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Murder
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Tragedy
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Period Piece
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Theatrical Release
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Crime
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Mafia
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Hit Men
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Revenge
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Mobsters
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Fathers And Sons
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1930s
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