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by millinocket  in Movies,  - Top 200, Nov 18 '03
Pros: Direction, Cinematography, Set Design, Score
Cons: Main characters lack depth
I don’t like mobster movies. Or books. Or TV series. For some reason the whole mobster concept bores me enough that I generally avoid these things like the plague. Now I must eat a big helping of proverbial crow, as I quite enjoyed Sam ...
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by George_Chabot  in Movies, - Top 50, Aug 20 '03
Pros: Acting, Cinematography, Score
Cons: Story and Storytelling by Director Mendes
When you stare into an abyss, the abyss stares also into you. Friedrich Nietzsche The lat ...
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by pmills1210 in Movies, - Top 500, Aug 10 '02
Pros: Hanks, Newman, Hoechlin, Tucci, cinematography
Cons: Not all characters are compelling or developed
“The Road To Perdition” tells the story of two generations of two families. At the head of one family is Michael Sullivan (Tom Hanks), a 1930s hitman keeps his life a secret from his sons Peter (Liam Aiken) and Michael, Jr. (Tyler Hoechlin). His wife,...
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by Grouch - Top 200, Jul 14 '02
Pros: Cinematography, directing, acting, production design, soundtrack--it's all so beautiful
Cons: A predictable plot, a nothing role for Jennifer Jason Leigh
Bogart. Cagney. Hanks.
Hanks? Tom “Nice Guy” Hanks?
Yes. In Road to Perdition, our generation’s Jimmy Stewart gets mean and cold-blooded as he attempts to “stretch” his apple-pie image. While he lacks some...
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by Vormancian - Top 500, Feb 12 '03
Pros: Hanks. Law. A treat to watch something very well crafted.
Cons: There's no there there.
Sam Mendes is two for two with me. While I liked ‘American Beauty’ much more than this one, at the end I had a vague ‘Yeah... And?’ reaction. At the end of ‘The Road to Perdition’, I had a similar reaction, only it...
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by mkp51 - Top 500, Apr 13 '03
Pros: Superbly acted, written, directed, and produced...
Cons: Occasionally descends into dreariness...
Anyone who’s read many of my movie reviews knows of my predilection for well-acted, high quality gangster films. Of these there have been a-plenty in the past two or three decades. The Godfather Trilogy, Goodfellas, and Pulp Fiction...
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by artbyjude - Top 500, Mar 14 '03
Pros: Hanks, Newman, Law, the musical score , Cinematography, directing
Cons: violence
This is an extraordinary movie that requires watching more than one time.
It comes somewhat unexpectedly from Sam Mendes, who directed the Oscar Winning AMERICAN BEAUTYin 1999. My feelings for that movie aside, I was not prepared to like this...
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by phungus in Movies, - Top 100, Jul 28 '02
Pros: Everything!
Cons: Some unrealistic gunplay
Road to Perdition is a nearly flawless movie that has a credit list to die for. It is helmed by Academy Award winning director Sam Mendes (American Beauty) and stars a threesome of Oscar winners and nominees: Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, and Jude Law. It...
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by d_fienberg - Top 500, Jul 13 '02
Pros: Stylish filmmaking, superior acting, and a nicely poetic script
Cons: Far too self-conscious; intrusive score
The Road To Perdition is a movie that spends too much time trying to confirm its presumptive greatness to actually *be* great. The pieces are all here for a classic piece of cinema, but the filmmakers decided that if every wonderful techical...
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by scott29 - Top 500, Jul 11 '02
Pros: Newman, Hanks, Law, and a half-dozen other actors. Conrad Hall's camera.
Cons: May be a bit draggy for some tastes, but I was never bored.
For what's essentially a simply satisfying and beautiful-looking gangster drama, Road to Perdition sure does seem to come holding a lot of baggage: It's the second film for Sam Mendes - coming off no less a film than American Beauty;...
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by Ed.Williamson - Top 200, Jul 18 '02
Pros: The scenery, the boy, and the photographer-hitman
Cons: What may be unsure direction.
All the way through this movie Tom Hanks looks like he is sitting on a nail. He wears an uncomfortable wrinkle across his forehead and he wipes his sweating brow a lot. Playing somewhat against type (The Perennial Nice Guy) we are supposed to believe...
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by peterbryan , Jul 14 '02
Pros: Superb delivery from cast; Memorable cinematography and set design; Compelling drama
Cons: Script gets slightly watered down near the end
Is Michael Sullivan really a bad guy? Topped in a shadowy fedora, draped in an ominous gray overcoat and brandishing a Tommy-gun locked away in a beaten old suitcase, he’s almost the quintessential Grim Reaper touring the Great Depression. When his boss...
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by MrsNormanMaine - Top 1000, Jul 23 '02
Pros: Paul Newman. Gorgeous cinematography.
Cons: Tom Hanks. Jude Law. Draggy direction. Predictable script.
The endless days of confinement in my boudoir here at Chateau Maine as my fractured femur continues to heal are most wearying. Even the gilded caryatids which support the frieze above the dressing room door are starting to bother me. As soon as I'm...
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by yogore - Top 500, Mar 05 '03
Pros: acting, mood, scene and plot
Cons: overlooked
It seems an unwritten law of Hollywood etiquette that only films released in the waning months of the year are Oscar contenders. The acadamy's nominating board, it seems, has a short memory, unable to pluck worthy titles from more than a month past....
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by jeff_wilder78 - Top 500, Mar 09 '03
Pros: Terrific performances from Hanks, Newman and Law.
Cons: Some wasted characters, predictable in some spots.
"They had good intentions". "Oh and the road to hell is paved with good intentions!"
One could clearly see that the makers of Road To Perdition had good intentions when they set out to make the movie. The thing is, their intentions half...
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