Way too dull. Didn't like the kid. Im a fan of these post-apocalyptic/survival movies, but I couldn't get myself to enjoy this one. I really wanted to though..

Good film.

One of the most depressing movies I have ever seen. I was hoping they were saving a bullet for me.

Bleak, desolate, and raw. Great depiction of the world after an apocalypse and a neat treatment of what people would do to survive. My biggest complaint, though, is that the son seems a bit unrealistic. I mean, if he grew up in that world without knowing anything else, would he really be so wimpy and in need of his father's help? Also, the ending is a bit unsatisfying and inconsistent with the rest of the film. Otherwise, though, not bad.

Depressing, bleak and as misanthropic as it gets - It plays as a grown/thinking mans version of War of the Worlds, with Mortensen giving it all he's got. And it really IS his achievement that the story doesn't disappear into the monotone nothingness that the movie otherwise steers towards (but you do get the feeling that quite a few nuances have gone lost in translation). But definitely worth a watch.

I don't think the movie captured what the book did and I don't think I really needed to see it. This story was about the father and son and for it to be believable, they both had to pull off amazing performances. But they didn't. I will probably never forget the book, but the movie is definitely forgettable.

Totally captured the atmosphere of the book.

One of the best post-apocalyptic films since Children of Men in 2006. A stirringly grim, gloomy and dreary film.

Brilliant acting by all (especially Michael K. Williams short bit), however having read the book, felt that the flashbacks were too numerous.

Dreary, melodramatic, monotone. The kid is annoying as shit, too.

Scared the hell out of me. Pessimistically realistic.

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I liked this movie a lot. As far as "survival movies" go, (is that even a genre?) this has to be one of the better ones. It's very depressing, and I love all that. Unfortunately, it pulls back with the ending. It's not that I don't like the slightly optimistic turn it takes, I just don't think that that ending would ever, ever happen. It feels too cute by half. Too neat, and too convenient. Otherwise, it's a good film, but my God, the ending is not good.

Something implacable is lost in the translation of this book to the screen. Its done with a fair bit of accuracy but it all feels too much like a bad dream, its missing more ephemeral qualities that would make it hit home.

I adore Cormac McCarthy's "The Road." The book is flawless so I can't help but be a little disappointed with this adaptation. It's not Hillcoat's fault. I knew he tried his very best to capture the essence of the book. And I commend his valiant effort to attempt such a Herculean, impossible task. The beauty of the book is in its bleak but powerful words which could never be fully expressed in a motion picture. Lots of subtle elements were lost in translation. But it's still good enough.

Well done, but how damn depressive. Almost 2 hours with mostly similar setbacks makes it boring and sad

i will remember this one, for a long time...

Viggo is easily good enough to carry the movie. The bleak post-apocalyptic world looks great and the sluggish pacing suits the story well.

Very bleak, but well done. This is a hard film to grade - it's so well done, but it feels like it's very one-dimensional. This, I think, is just the limit set by the plot, and not the fault of the cast or director. There's just only so much you can do with the story at hand.

Even bleaker than the novel, this adaptation is a beautiful description of a post-apocalyptic world and the struggle of, not even trying to survive, but to simply not die. Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee are a worthy couple to carry the film, and Charlize Theron makes an appearance that is one of the most depressing ones ever caught on film.

The Road portrays a grim and gray post-apocalyptic world flawlessly, and Viggo captures the raw determination and survival instinct of the character.

A heavy, depressing but overall beautifull and thoughtfull human story about a father protecting his son in a post-apocalyptic world. The acting is brilliant. Both main actors are very believable and you really can feel their emotions. The focus of the movie is on the father and the son characters (so no big set-pieces, just two people trying to survive in a harsh world). The movie ends on an interesting tone, and the movie as a whole makes you think about what makes a human being.

It's alright, I guess. Some of the scenes from the book were captured in their intensity, but the music ruined most of them. Even the Coca-Cola scene felt like "just another day" territory, when it was beautiful in the book. The added scenes with the mother I felt were justified. Most of the time it was bland and, honest to God, someone made Cormac McCarthy's The Road saccharine. Saccharine is an appropriate word to describe the film version of Cormac McCarthy's The Road. What a world, huh?

Ending kiiiinda sucks.

I've always considered The Road to be one of McCarthy's lesser works (when compared to Suttree or Blood Meridian), so I'm honestly not surprised that I found its adaptation to be equally unimpressive.

This is how a Post-Apocalyptic movie should be. Bleak, emotionally engaging, gloomy.

Just read my review for THE ROAD TO PERDITION...

90 minutes of suffering, depression and boredom and we don't even get to find out why. That's bullshit. A few points added for strong set design and Viggo's acting.

Even though I prefer the novel, the movie is quite a good adaptation. I didn't expect it to be this good. The dark mood and hopelessness of the novel is there (a little brighter though), the kid is still a pussy (I don't know why but it annoys me). Has a really great atmosphere overall, and in the end, that's all I cared about.

I feel that the story really didn't work that well as a film. Need to get the book.

The atmosphere makes this movie. The gloomy photography evokes a sense of total doom and hopelessness. And yet the screenplay is pretty much a fairy tale. And that's not a good thing. The lesson learned is that in desperate times there are good guys and bad guys--and the good guys come out ahead through dumb luck every time. The end result is an utterly disappointing descent into childish sentimentality.

A tremendously dark film--do not dismiss it as slow and uneventful. 'The Road' is an experience of a movie--a hauntingly beautiful one that depicts the end of the world not through movie studio executive eyes, but through a realistic approach. This is an intense movie featuring two excellent performances from Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee, both of whom capture an authentic desperation and emotional resonance with their characters.

it overshadows it's many flaws and like all great movies will stay in the mind long after you've seen it. depending on your interpretation of the ending (and i think the son was had for dinner) it may be an ever bleaker story than Coraline or Red Beard.

Looks awesome, and there's a strong existentialist core to it which I assume is adopted from the book (I know, I know, I have to read it) - too bad there's stuff on the surface that contradicts that.

Unbelievably bleak and frequently horrifying, it's a credit to the actors that they manage to make this a very moving story of a father's love for his son, and for life.

Decent enough, but nothing like the book.

The little boy is too pretty and too naive - that's annoying. Mortensen great as always. Whole movie very depressing.

An unexpectedly thrilling film with an unexpectedly insipid ending.

Finally got to see the full version after seeing an incomplete copy. The loniless of the road is captured in saddening detail. Bleak, bleak and more bleak is the story and despite maybe a glimmer of happiness, Hillcoat throws in a cannibal or two. One of my favorites from 2009.

Lost momentum towards the end.

Visually and thematically bleak. McCarthy's novel was more leisurely told and, while Hillcoat and the screenwriter did a competent job of pacing this adaptation, it doesn't achieve the same lyricism. The film left me kind of cold - and not, I don't think, because of its hopelessness. Viggo was good but I didn't connect emotionally - somehow it lacked heart. Still well worth seeing, especially for the postapocalyptic world, incredibly visualized, making you truly thankful for our many privileges.

Hopelessness and the inevitability of death in a world standing on its last leg. Not exactly sunny stuff, yet The Road manages the difficult feat of not wallowing in the sadness and sordidness of the entire thing. Yes, there's despair and loss around every corner but it's faced with genuine sorrow and, perhaps even more harrowingly, a grim determination to push forward even though there is nothing at the end of the road.

Captures all the grimness of the book without the accompanying poetry -- and even then, its grimness is unadorned by pathos or tension to dilute the bland, remote greyness of it all. That isn't to say it's a complete departure from the book: The translation of McCarthy's prose into voiceover is simply heinous and it retains (and elongates) its cowardly ending. The one scene that worked for me was the encounter with the robber simply because, for once, it felt like something was at stake.

Shot in an overpowering palette of muted greys and browns, 'The Road' is oddly beautiful in its gloominess: in tandem with a fairly faithful screenplay adaptation of the best novel of the last decade, it makes for an engrossing experience. Though the film skirts close to over-sentimentality at points, particularly the oddly protracted ending, ultimately little is lost in the transformation from page to screen; in terms of atmosphere, it's utterly, achingly, perfect.