Road to Perdition
A hit man for an Irish gang in the Depression-era Midwest, hit man Michael Sullivan is known to friends and enemies alike as the Angel of Death. But his bonds of loyalty are put to the test when his son witnesses what he does for a living.
June 12, 1973 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
29 December 1972, Lewisham, London, England, UK
15 September 1974, Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA
21 January 1967, Chicago, Illinois, USA
31 January 1959, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
25 November 1963, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
12 June 1953, Lincoln, Illinois, USA
April1963, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
26 January 1925, Shaker Heights, Ohio, USA
23 June 1947, Los Angeles, California, USA
2 March 1968, Chester, Cheshire, England, UK
16 October 1962, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
February 07, 2014
Crisply, starchily self-conscious in its efforts to be a gangster epic. A pretty-enough remote place, with its rain and snow and fedoras and trenchcoats, but it's still a long way from Boardwalk Empire and Miller's Crossing.
April 14, 2013
Visually, the picture is all of a piece, but it's a self-conscious piece of work -- all dark-toned academic classicism.
February 09, 2006
Ploughing a furrowed brow, Hanks is fatally miscast -- except that the story turns so sentimental and bathetic, he's actually in his element.
December 29, 2010
Powerful, beautiful film; ok for mature teens.
February 28, 2017
Gangsters. Parents. Children. Honor. 'Road to Perdition' is all this and more, perhaps too perfect or too calculated, but with great cinema in it. [Full review in Spanish]
April 14, 2013
So is Perdition still a must-see? No question. But it's tough to fuss about it much when a picture is this fussy.
April 14, 2013
What makes the movie pay off is moving pictures of real action and of intimate scenes between man and boy that are all the more moving for being understated.
July 21, 2015
Very little of Road to Perdition lingers, except for a feeling that you've been carried along.
July 28, 2010
...something more than the sum of its parts; namely, a gripping, touching, entertaining motion picture.
April 17, 2007
Sam Mendes's 2002 follow-up to American Beauty finds him every bit as adept, arty, and Oscar hungry.
August 02, 2010
The top-billed actors deliver: Hanks with his resonant reserve and Newman in conveying Rooney's failed attempt to live up to his self-image as the ultimate just and loving patriarch. [Blu-ray]
August 08, 2008
While crisply edited and unindulgent, Mendes' work is gratifyingly old-school in its rejection of modern-day stylistic agitation, the better to achieve a slow but inexorable build to its climax.
