The Road

Post-apocalypse? Check!
Creepy ass cannibals? Check! Check!

But really The Road more than anything is a story of a father and son attempting to survive en route to "The South" while facing starvation, illness, injury, people who would eat them, and those who would simply rob them.

Viggo Mortenson and "The Boy" did an excellent job. And I mean that. The story does not move on much dialogue so the acting was doubly important. The cinematography? Flawless.

The Road, based on the novel by the same title, was simply fantastic. Told with interspersed flashbacks of The Father and his wife, a woman who understandably decided that just surviving was not good enough. I guess I should say that I did not read the supposedly equally compelling novel. Young did, he also loved the movie, although he did miss some of his favorite parts which had been cut.

More than just surviving physically, father and son try to keep their humanity alive. Early on the watcher understands that the father lives solely to keep the son alive, although what for, it is unclear. There are questions of good and evil, images of farmed people, and some religious undertones, and well, just wow. If you were reeled in by the more action-type sequences of the trailer, you might be disappointed. But if you want to see excellent acting with a good amount of suspense, you should give The Road a shot.

I don't think you'll be disappointed.