The father and son, played by Viggo Mortensen and a wonderfully sensitive young actor named Kodi Smit-McPhee, drift through a world ruined by an unspecified cataclysm. A few flashbacks of ease and sunlight conjure the time before, when there was a mother on the scene, glowingly incarnated by Charlize Theron. Then something happened — Nuclear war? Environmental disaster? — that left a lot of people dead, threw the mother into despair and gutted the civilization those of us in the comfort of the multiplex take for granted.
“The Road” is rated R (Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian). It has grisly violence and a pervasive mood of terror.
THE ROAD
Opens on Wednesday nationwide.
Movie Review – ‘The Road’ – From Cormac McCarthy, Father and Son Bond After Disaster – NYTimes.com
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