Miller's Crossing / Road To Perdition (DVD)

Road To Perfection

Advantages: Looks fantastic, acting is great, interesting story
Disadvantages: Slightly predictable towards the end

For such a famous director, Sam Mendes has made very few films. Only two in fact; the multi-Oscar winning American Beauty and this 2002 follow-up, Road To Perdition. Although follow-up isn't really the right term, as this is completely different. I was surprised to find that this did not win any major Oscars, although it was nominated for about six, because it really is a brilliant film. I was also surprised that for such a great film, it was not advertised very well; I didn't really know anything about this film before I saw it, and I bet lots of people don't know about it at all, which is a shame. The story tells of a hit man for the Irish mafia, Mike Sullivan (played by Tom Hanks). He and his two sons have a close relationship with the godfather John Rooney (played by Paul Newman). Sullivan keeps his job a secret from his ...

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Road to the Oscars

Advantages: Every frame, virtually
Disadvantages: Far too superb for any

This is not a Tom Hanks movie. If any of you have ever been put off by his presence in a film before, then cast that bias aside. This will change your opinion of the man completely, and you will be humming his praises as well as everything else about the flick. Tom Hanks plays a minor gangster, Michael Sullivan, in the US at the dawn of the 1930s. Now, none of us I am sure would have thought of casting him in such a role, unless one were deliberately gunning for those golden statuettes. But here any kind of grand-standing is knocked on the head, leaving a decent, assured performance. In appearance, he looks a lot bulkier than normal. Brilliantly, his dodgy moustache makes him look suitably macho at the beginning of the film, and immediately vulnerable when the time arises. And even more surprisingly, when he needs to be ...

theediscerning 20.09.2002 · Read full review
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Road to perdition

Advantages: easy film to watch, good story line, not a far fetched film
Disadvantages: ending wasnt that good, thought father should have lived

Micheal. Micheal see's The boss's son leaving his home, he hears the gun shots as he rides up the drive. THe killer doesnt see him though. Sullivan and Micheal then go 'on the run' from the mob, and start stealing Capone's money to get noticed, and get the informationt hey need to kill the killer. A press photographer turns out to be a killer hired by another mob, and he finds out where Sullivan is planning to take Micheal, to a small place called Perdition. He starts to follow them. THere's a few shoot outs, some bank robbery, and Sullivan teaches his son to be his get away driver. Finally they make it to Micheals aunts place, but the press photographer/killer has already gotten there first, and he shoots Sullivan ( for the second time). Micheal tries to shoot the photographer, but doesn't have the courage, but Sullivan manaages to ...

carlyknott 26.05.2004 · Read full review
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