Road to Perdition (18)

A great modern addition to the gangster movie genre. Tom Hanks puts in a stunning performance as in what is essentially a revenge movie where Hanks makes a great anti hero.

The music and tone of the film all work to create a very engaging film that you will really get drawn into.

Jude law adds further depth to the film playing a really nasty charachter.

Definately give this film a look, if you like gangster film you will enjoy it, even if you just like a good stirring film them watch this.

This is an instant classic. Tom Hanks is stunning in this movie about loyalty, betrayal and revenge.

Tom Hanks' character, Michael, plays a hitman for a local mob boss. The mob boss is played by Paul Newman. This man raised Michael from boyhood and ofter visits Michaels' family and children.

When the son of the mob boss kills Michaels family, except for his oldest son, Michael and his son are on the run for safer shores.

The mob boss becomes enraged at his own son for killing Michaels family-condemning him to a single course of action-finishing the job that his son began.

Michael and his son drive through the night to Chicago to meet with a man named Nitti, an uber powerful mob boss. Michael asks to work for him and tells him that he needs to murder the people that killed his family.

Nitti tells him to forget about this and to go back home.

At this point, Michael and his son decide to get even with the syndicate by robbing banks. But only stealing the money that is intended for the mob.

In the meantime, Jude Law, whose character is an evil, sadistic free-lance photographer/hitman is on their heels every step of the way.

The musical score for this movie is one of the best that I have every heard and really hits the audience hard.

This movie is perfect in every way, screenplay, casting, score and script.

The audience instantly recognizes with the plight of Michael and his son, but also with the dilemma that faces his step father(paul Newman) and local mob boss.

An EXCELLENT picture!

From the opening scene you can tell this is a visually stunning film, indeed each scene could be a picture in an art gallery, with a soundtrack (by Thomas Newman) to match. Unsurprising if you've seen American Beauty, director Sam Mendes earlier film.

Tom Hanks is the main character, a mafia hitman in 1930s industrial American heartlands. This in its self is a bit of a problem at first, you kind of think 'Oh no, they've sent Tom Hanks after me, I'm so scared!' but as the film goes on it works better.

Things go badly wrong when his partner, who just happens to be his boss's slightly psycho son (played by Daniel Craig) loses it on a job. This leads to a life on the road for Hanks and his 12 yr old son, being pursued by assassin Jude Law, who's even more of a psycho than Craig! It's a good watch as Hanks does some of the chasing, bent on revenge and you're not sure what might happen next, until the very end, which you probably predicted halfway through the film.