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Joe Baltake
Sacramento Bee Movie Critic
You won't find acting much better than the performances turned in here by Hanks, Hoechlin, Newman, Law and Craig -- acting that's as bruised as the dark browns, grays, reds and greens that color the film's visuals. I know that it's about six months premature to make such a declaration, but "Road to Perdition" is the best film of the year. ...
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
"Road to Perdition" is like a Greek tragedy, dealing out remorseless fates for all the characters. Some tragedies, like "Hamlet," are exhilarating, because we have little idea how quirks of character will bring about the final doom. But the impact of Greek tragedy seems muted to me, because it's preordained. ...
Terry Lawson
Detroit Free Press
No road map is required to follow "Road to Perdition," Sam Mendes' elegiac follow-up to "American Beauty." A loss-of-innocence saga disguised in the trench coats and tough talk of a gangster movie, were it any more straightforward and simple, it would be a Zen meditation -- if Zen wisdom were dispensed from the barrels of smoking guns. ...
Mary F. Pols
The Contra Costa Times
"Perdition" is a movie of near-constant sorrow. Unrelentingly sad and affecting, it is easily the most obvious best picture candidate seen yet this year. Only Mendes' second movie -- his first was the Oscar-winning "American Beauty" -- it offers ample proof that "Beauty" was no fluke. ...
Rene Rodriguez
Miami Herald
Overflowing with melancholy and tragedy, "Road to Perdition" is one of the most somber gangster pictures ever made. There's a lot of dying in the movie, and there's barely any humor at all. It's a luxuriously gloomy piece of work, and it unfolds at a serene pace, which adds to the ominous mood. ...
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Road to Perdition
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(2002)
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Overview:
"American Beauty" Oscar winner Sam Mendes directed this pulpy period hit-man drama -- based on the DC comic books by Max Allan Collins and Richard Piers -- with Tom Hanks as Michael Sullivan, an unforgiving Depression-era Irish hit man bent on avenging the murder of his wife. His actions take on larger ramifications when Sullivan's young son starts to see his father in a much different light.
Starring:
Tom Hanks, Tyler Hoechlin, Paul Newman, Jude Law, Stanley Tucci, Daniel Craig, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Luke Aiken
Directed by:
Sam Mendes
Written by:
David Self
Cinematographer:
Conrad L. Hall
Composer:
Thomas Newman
Studio:
DreamWorks/20th Century Fox
Release Date:
July 12, 2002
MPAA Rating:
(R) - for violence and language
Running Time:
119 minutes
Websites:
Official Site
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