Review of The Road (2009) by Schroederrock — 11 Jan 2019

The films nails the grim tone of the apocalypse and dire feeling of every encounter a father and his son would experience in those kinds of times. The filming and production work are also masterful as every shot makes you feel like you're watching some devasted portion of the planet.

The film even carries a worthwhile tense feeling whenever anything living comes on to screen that isn't the main characters and that's awesome. What isn't awesome is the point of the film. Without spoiling it, there seems to be little point to the film other than the survival tale of a boy and his father.

There's no focused narrative - no meaning. I can live with that if there's enough content that is experienced along the way that makes the film engaging and entertaining but while there's moments that meet that criteria the film as a whole just left me asking the question "why did this movie get made like this"? It's not a waste of a watch, I just doubt I'll watch it again.

I'm disappointed because I enjoy this genre more often than not yet The Road never does enough to draw me in and keep me in. Side note: the audio mixing isn't great. Often the background noises are as loud as the dialogue, or louder, which left me having to focus on the dialogue a lot harder than I typically do.

What's with that? I say that with my center channel speaker maxed out with my surround sound system at 60% volume so it's not like I was trying to keep the volume down. Odd miss by the studio that put this out.