Review of Road to Perdition (2002) by Michelle K — 05 Apr 2011

This is an under-appreciated masterpiece. This is one of the best mafia movies out there.

This review of Road to Perdition (2002) was written by Michelle K on 05 Apr 2011.

Road to Perdition has generally received very positive reviews.

Was this review helpful?

Yes

More reviews of this movie:

More Reviews of Road to Perdition

Review of Road to Perdition (2002)

By Russ B (1,141) on 16 Aug 2017

8/17/2017: An excellent cast. It was a bit slow, but still a pretty good movie…

Read Review

Review of Road to Perdition (2002)

By Lisa S (1,201) on 12 Feb 2017

I re watched this movie. ALthough I thought Tom Hanks was very good, I thought it was slow and very mediocre. Sad ending…

Read Review

Review of Road to Perdition (2002)

By Liamexe (198) on 13 May 2023

Even though the primary kid actor attempted to cry, there was otherwise superb acting, there was simply no compelling story…

Read Review

Review of Road to Perdition (2002)

By Masaya K (22) on 21 Apr 2018

The story of the father and the child, the story of the family is impressed very much…

Read Review

Review of Road to Perdition (2002)

By Vlad M (135) on 09 Dec 2018

Tom Hanks actually manages to play a proper bad-ass…

Read Review

Review of Road to Perdition (2002)

By Gracjanski (417) on 12 Apr 2022

I like that movie. They created a convincing world of the early 30s…

Read Review

Review of Road to Perdition (2002)

By Jp32 (78) on 25 Mar 2020

Taken on a scene-by-scene basis, Road to Perdition has enough Oscar-caliber performances and cinematography to lessen the impact of the miscast…

Read Review

Review of Road to Perdition (2002)

By Qi Z (173) on 11 Oct 2016

A stoic tale of revenge by a father-son pair…

Read Review

Review of Road to Perdition (2002)

By Bfoore90 (601) on 22 Sep 2019

Incredible film. Intense, methodical and extremely underrated, Road to Perdition is much more than a 1930s era gangster movie…

Read Review

Review of Road to Perdition (2002)

By Tyranian (764) on 12 Apr 2019

A really good Tom Hanks film with hood acting and strong plot and script + good music and direction…

Read Review

More reviews of this movie

Reviews of Similar Movies

Review of Faster (2010)

By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 23 Nov 2010

No matter how guilty our knucklehead-protagonist's victims supposedly are, it's difficult to maintain a rooting interest…

Read Review

Review of Mrs. Munck (1995)

By Liam O (157) on 25 Mar 2009

Suspension of disbelief is often used to allow fantasy to be portrayed in a manner that we accept, allowing the plot to advance to a conclusion…

Read Review

Review of Rubin & Ed (1992)

By Christopher B (2,528) on 10 Oct 2007

Actually, it was pretty awful. But it had one of the best lines ever. You have to admit your cat's dead…

Read Review

Review of Trial by Jury (1994)

By Adam R (2,773) on 26 Sep 2011

Monday, September 26, 2011 (1994) Trial By Jury DRAMA/ THRILLER Very standard crime drama, whereas at the beginning of the film, a witness…

Read Review

Review of Calibre (2018)

By Valixt (4) on 06 Sep 2018

Can't recall any sparkling feature films released under the Netflix label…

Read Review

Review of Bandit (2022)

By Dominic Baez (3) for The Seattle Times (964) on 22 Sep 2022

Bandit wants you to believe there’s some kind of moral underpinning to all this. There isn’t…

Read Review

Review of Transfusion (2023)

By Noel Murray (1,901) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 09 Mar 2023

The movie’s handful of action sequences are good, but they’re too sparsely deployed and overwhelmed by lots of slow-paced scenes of characters…

Read Review

More Reviews

Popular Movies Right Now

The Batman

2022

75%430 Reviews

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

2023

85%233 Reviews

The Prodigy

2019

53%39 Reviews

The Equalizer

2014

69%994 Reviews

The Gentlemen

2020

70%170 Reviews

Barbie

2023

68%382 Reviews

Where the Crawdads Sing

2022

63%92 Reviews

Nope

2022

68%181 Reviews

Inside Out

2015

86%1,276 Reviews

The Killing of a Sacred Deer

2017

69%660 Reviews

Movies You Viewed Recently

Road to Perdition

2002

77%805 Reviews

Kwaidan

1965

81%196 Reviews

Muriel's Wedding

1994

73%494 Reviews

Sweet Land

2005

74%320 Reviews

Holes

2003

72%709 Reviews

Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara

2011

81%206 Reviews

The Tree of Life

2011

70%1,203 Reviews

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2

2012

57%743 Reviews

Lovers of the Arctic Circle

1998

80%255 Reviews

Pitch Perfect 3

2017

53%509 Reviews