I relinquish all hope of ever understanding the Oscars.
Credit where it’s due, Mikey Madison is great and has the most to work with, but most of this film is people shouting and screaming at each other with a completely threadbare plot and a runtime of 2 hours 18 minutes.
Really tested my patience and triggered several troubling flashbacks of Heat.
“I’m the motherfucker that found this place” costs this film a whole star.
Bleak, depressing & nihilistic. But enough about me.
I'm a big fan of post-apocalyptic worlds. The Road portrays the desperation and hopelessness of its world brilliantly, often in subtle ways. I really enjoyed the slower scenes showing travel or scavenging for food & resources.
There are challenging and disturbing scenes as you'd expect, but I loved the anticipation of these and the inherent threat when anyone else shows up. In a world this far gone, almost everyone and everything is a threat to existence.
Brilliant performances, a cracking score and great cinematography.
