Mary Doyle Thank God I never read the novel as from what I've heard it's more doom & gloom than the movie, so my review is for this film. After what appears to have been a nuclear event the world has been destroyed , left dark as the sun has been blacked out from whatever happened , the world is cold and all vegetation been wiped, earthquakes and thunder storms are every day occurrences.The story starts some 10/11 years after this disaster with a Father & son constantly moving to go South, why this need is even in the story is beyond me. They eat only a mere morsel of a dead insect daily.Through the dreams of the Dad we see some of what had happened , one memory being his wife giving birth to their son, which happened some months after the world changed. So considering all the events mentioned , how did a baby being born in this world survive and grow to an almost healthy looking child? The Mother of the child just wants to die , she can't cope and just walks away from her family some short time before the story for us starts. It is her who had deemed that going South is the place to be, maybe that is the pun of it all.Through the constant tedious rotation of getting from A to B for no other reason but to make a story , there is the threat of the other humans, this is always the threat , be it a zombie , plague or nuclear, there has to be the evil survivors, in this they are cannibals. If taking this as a realistic "story" and the good people have been living like our two protagonists, eating insects and drinking boiled but very polluted water without sieving it, nobody could survive less than 6 months let alone 10 years and the cannibals wouldn't be getting any nourishment either, because they would be eating diseased flesh, caused by malnutrition which also would have dysentery complications and other factors that would be there.During one of their long journeys which also would be impossible due to lack of energy, they find a door in the ground that has been overlooked for over a decade, climbing down into it they discover a type of fallout shelter, full of canned foods, beds, clean clothes & linen , it also has clean running water and full bathroom facilities. They fill their stomachs and amazingly never vomit, they bathe and sleep. This is where this story should have ended, but no, a few footsteps above them on the covered door spooks them so they need to move once more.This story is ridiculous, boring and an unending search for something at the end of an never ending road of rinse and repeat.

henderson-09706 This has to be one of the worst films I've ever seen. The entire film up until the last few minutes portrays a horrible post-apocalyptic nuclear winter where all animals have died, no crops will grow, food has run out and the few people left hunt each other for food. The ending of this film cannot be described as anything other than ridiculous and stupid. Spoiler: At the end, the father dies and the boy, almost immediately afterwards, finds a kind family of four with a dog who take him in. No explanation of how the family feeds itself while the rest of the world is eating each other. And a dog? Seriously? Cannibalism everywhere, but this family can feed itself and a dog. How? It's just a totally stupid ending that makes no sense in the broader context of the film.

nicholasrouthier The Road 2009, the director John Hillcoat, screenplay Joe Penhall, and costume design Margot Wilson. This movie was from the book The Road written by Cormac McCarthy and won the Pulitzer prize for fiction in 2007 when the book was published. Viggo Mortensen who played the man was the main character in the film. Mortensen also took a part in the Lord of the Rings in 1999. America is very gray after a catastrophe. A man and his young son wander through this post-apocalyptic world, trying to keep the dream of civilization alive. They journey toward the sea, surviving as best they can on what they can scavenge, and try to avoid roving gangs of savage humans who will turn them into slaves, or worse. I didn't notice any significant differences from the book to the film. Everything seemed to be how it was portrayed in the book. The filmmaker uses cinematic techniques very effectively. The lighting that the filmmaker used was effective because during the flashbacks it was nice and sunny but when it came back to the setting of the film everything was dark, gray and gloomy. The filmmaker also has a good use of costumes to make the actors look like they are very dirty and are in very poor conditions. I feel like this was a good film because it followed the movie very well and also provided great imagery and setting along with the book. I only recommend this film if you read the book. The only reason that I only recommend it if you read the book is because the film is pretty slow and gray so it gets tiring and boring after a while of watching it and if you haven't read the book you will probably get bored of it. If you read the book though you will want to watch the movie to see the ways that the scenes are presented in the movie opposed to what you were intrepatating in the book.

rohanshah-84809 Although this movie has a lot of star studded actors in it, the movie is not very good. This movie is based on the book and follows it pretty well and follows the book most of the time. However, they do stick with things from the movie that don't fit well in the movie. For example, in the book, the dialogue is choppy and is somewhat acceptable in the book. However, when seen by two person having an actual conversation, it disrupts the entire flow of the movie and takes away from the actual movie. Also, in the book, there is a major emphasis about the cannibalism and is one of the main points in the book. However, in the movie there is one scene about true cannibalism and it doesn't last long. I would like the part about cannibalism to be longer as it would more action and gives the movie a new and interesting story line. Also the setting in the book is that the entire sky is gray and the sun is covered. Therefore, all life is gone and there is no food available. The book also describes as towns being destroyed and completely being destroyed. However, in the movies the scenes have the appearance of being just used. The buildings don't have the appearance of being destroyed but just used and doesn't give the appearance of being destroyed. Overall this move was very disappointing compared to the book and I was very disappointed. I would give this a 6/10 and that is being generous.