The Road

From what the plot says this film is simply about a man (Viggo Mortensen- A History of Violence, The Lord of The Rings) defending his son on a dangerous journey. The posters make it look like 'The Revenant', which was a shocking film and has already been reviewed on this blog so let us hope that because Viggo Mortensen is actually a much better actor than Leonardo DiCaprio (in our opinion) that this film will be nothing like 'The Revenant' and will be something better and different.

First up, we do like to see Mortensen looking homeless again. Unfortunately he is one of those men who looks better when unclean. When washed and clean he is not particularly attractive. The narration is not suited to a voice like his. The music behind it was brilliant and he did his best with it and in a way there probably wasn't anyone else to narrate the opening but it didn't really work for him, for the roughness in his voice. No man should ever show his child how to kill himself with a gun and no man should ever try and make their child kill them and then kill themselves.

Flashbacks help to make the story less boring. Within the first 15 minutes he is showing his son how to kill himself and someone else- that kinda tells you that the film is over. The only way to make the film better is to have some flashbacks so that those who went to the cinema to see it didn't feel like they had wasted their money on being charged for a full film and only receiving fifteen minutes of it. Talk about a way to make a really messed up film- the guy ends up shooting his own son! Whoever came up with this script needs help!

The feel of this film is '28 Days Later' crossed with 'The Revenant'. In short, there aren't many people and it is quite boring. Another thing is that if you are like me and find the religious references boring and start making associations to 'Noah' and other somewhat not particularly interesting films like that then you are going to find this film boring. Nothing much especially shows any real quality in it. Acting is par, script is par- the music is good but the plot is super boring. I wouldn't recommend watching it unless you really have a burning desire to, it's not one that you would take a chance on, it doesn't make for a great night in, it just makes for a good film to fall asleep in front of.

I realise that I am something like 4 days behind- apologies for that- interesting times over here. That does mean that tomorrow I will try and review two film and on Sunday three. I do have a week of holiday so there is time to review films more frequently to make up for the missed days- just bear with me.