Road to Perdition (DTS Widescreen) DVD

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starring: Tom Hanks, Tyler Hoechlin directed by: Sam Mendes

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Average Rating: Rating: - Pacing and Miscasting hurt this film. I was enthusiastic about seeing this film. The cast and story really held a lot of promise, and reviews I had read up to that point were promising. While it was a text book 'good film,' I just couldn't buy Tom Hanks as an assassin. I certainly don't fault Hanks for this, but the way the character was written, I didn't see much opportunity to develop that aspect of a redemptive-cold blooded killer. If this premise doesn't work for the main character, suspending disbelief for the rest of the film is a little difficult as well. And the pacing. While it's not a lightening-charged piece of entertainment, the pace is slow and methodical. But sometimes it gets so slow that your mind is given ample opportunity to wander. A well-constructed film doesn't give you the chance to do that. I felt this could have easily lost 30 minutes and been better for it. I can't give this a hearty recommendation, but if you insist, it's not a bad film. Rating: - Now thats what I call perfaction!! To be honest i wasnt dying to watch (ROAD TO PERDITION), actually i did miss it in the theartical release. But after i heard how good it is i decided to add it to my DVD library. after i finished it i dcouldnt stop my hands from clapping and my mouth from saying PERFECT! Great perfomnances, a stunning direction, gorgeous music, a fine screenplay, and real entertainment! When you find this factors in a movie you can only say its a perfect one. The only problem is the DVD edition, the only intresting feature is the deleated scenes. No making of, interviews, nor theartical trailer although these stuff are allready available. Dreamworks home entertainment needs to improve it's movies' features. Hollywood ending is nearly featurless, American beauty is well featured, but not enough for such a classic, at least it disserved a 2-disc edition. the same goes with road to perdition Rating: - Another Graphic Novel Hits the Screen I have a little problem with movies based on graphic novels, but then, graphic novels are a bit like storyboards, and since movies are a visual medium, I can see why producers and directors might find them appealing as source material. And yet even the best graphic novel seems superficial compared to the best non-graphic novel, which provides the actors more depth of character and complexity with which to work, even though the finished product is still an abridgement of the original. "The Road to Perdition" is sensitively directed by Sam Mendes, exquisitely photographed by Conrad Hall, finely acted by everyone in it, with particular cudos for Paul Newman, Jude Law, and Daniel Craig. Costumes and set designs are also superior in recreating Chicago and environs during the early 1930s. But I had a few problems with plot logistics that I never quite got over. Tom Hanks plays a loyal hitman of many years standing for mob boss Paul Newman. In fact, Newman allegedly regards Hanks as the son he wished he had, rather than the trigger-happy idiot he's stuck with (beautifully portrayed by Daniel Craig). When Hanks's elder son witnesses his father in action, Newman arranges an attempted hit on both Hanks and the boy, an attempted hit that backfires and results in tragedy for the remainder of Hanks's family, setting the rest of this gangland drama into motion. Unless I'm missing something, I don't believe for a moment that the Newman character would arrange for a hit on his well-loved "adopted" son Hanks or the boy, since the boy, though a witness to murder, is hardly going to rat on his own father (or on Newman's own son, also involved, which again would lead back to Hanks). In order for the rest of the movie to work -- in which Hanks has no choice but to seek revenge if he and his son are to survive -- a viewer must have to accept the premise that sets the film into motion, and this viewer cannot. I also had a problem with a scene in which Jude Law, as a particularly effective psychotic killer on Hanks's tail, seems to know exactly what diner Tom Hanks is going to eat at. What psychic hotline for psychotics does Law subscribe to? True, Law has figured out that Hanks and son are on their way to the small town of Perdition, but are we to assume that this particular diner is the ONLY eating place along the way? Or is the diner just a particular favorite with ALL hitmen? To suspend disbelief, must I suspend logic too? If a viewer can climb over such hurdles as the two mentioned above, there is a great deal to recommend the remainder of the film in every category mentioned above, particularly the growing relationship of Hanks and son as they continue to thwart danger.

Road to Perdition (DTS Widescreen) DVD

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