The Road

2009 • 111 minutes

About this movie

Father and son journeying together toward the sea across a post-apocalyptic landscape, some years after a great, unexplained cataclysm has destroyed civilization and almost all life on Earth. MPAA Rating: R © 2009 2929 Productions LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Ratings and reviews

Pros: 1) Awsome concept. 2) Visually interesting senaries thought the movie. Cons: 1) The guy's son lacked common sense, and since he plays a major role, it made this movie unbearable to watch. 2) No real ending! 3) This entire movie felt like an episode in a TV series (no real beginning, no full explanation of what happend to the world, and no real ending). Conclusion: I was fooled by the high reviews. Save your money and watch something else. I recommend the movie 'Stake Land' since it has a similar plot (including father and son) but better graphics, plot, and action.

Overall I think this movie was alright. It's not the best, and I wish that there was more of an explanation to what happened to the world, and how it came to be. It would have been nice to know what there were actually going for by heading South. It was good because this is one of the few films where there is a post apocalypse theme to the movie. But this movie was different than the others. More dark and grey. The thing I didn't like about the movie was that the father kept on pointing the gun in the kids face, thinking that it was the right thing for them both was to be dead. Another thing, I don't remember there being any names in this movie. Theres just the boy, and his father. We don't actually know their names.

This movie is not about the end of civilization or natural disasters. It actually depicts the primordial instinct of survival. Homosapiens, maybe the most adaptable specie on the face of this planet, will do anything to survive, destroying their own environment and even consuming their neighbors. I think that a lot of the “end of world” movies are just a big hype now and commercialized and making ($$$$$). I see suffering and misery everyday at my work place, I have pretty much seen it all, nothing moves me anymore, but this film made me reflect a lot on what this so called civilization is about. Enjoy well done.