The Road

From Cormac McCarthy, comes the highly anticipated big screen adaptation of the beloved, best-selling and Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.

Expectations were high for the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, and with a stella cast what could of gone wrong. ‘The Road’ is by no means a disaster, but as book adaptations go it is not as successful as one would have hoped. The issue is pacing and a number of check list ‘end of the world movie scenes', watching society collapse (check), never give up hope (check). These are all ok but the pace and mundane execution of a number of these scenes all seems to take along time to get there. The scenes of our leads dragging a trolley down an empty road is how you feel the film is dragging at time. A bit more tension and pace would of made all the difference one feels.

Still what really works is the chemistry between the father and son which is spot on, Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee are exceptional.  Kodi is a real star, a one to look out for in the future. The scenes of Mortensen and Smit-McPhee sharing a coke or eating dinner in candle lit are stunning and extremely heartfelt. This relationship between these two is the core of the film, the glue that keeps everything together. 
In conclusion whilst other assets of the movie could have been improved, the acting is faultless, also a worthy note is a wonderful cameo from Robert Duvall.