I have not read Cormac McCarthy's The Road. Thus, I will review John Hillcoat's The Road purely on its own terms. It is a bleak film, but not without hope. The setting is a post-apocalyptic America where dirty $100 bills are ignored underfoot and children are valuable only as food. Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee are "the good guys," a man and his son in search of food and shelter. The man warns his son of the dangers of the world and tries to prepare him for life without his father.  ...read more