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Road to Perdition is a 2002 American crime drama film directed by Sam Mendes and written by David Self, based on the first volume of the graphic novel series of the same name by Max Allan Collins and Richard Piers Rayner.
Jul 12, 2002 · Road to Perdition: Directed by Sam Mendes. With Tyler Hoechlin, Rob Maxey, Liam Aiken, Jennifer Jason Leigh. A mob enforcer's son in 1930s Illinois witnesses a murder, forcing him and his father to take to the road, and his father down a path of redemption and revenge.
Jul 12, 2002 · "Road to Perdition" is like a Greek tragedy, dealing out remorseless fates for all the characters. Some tragedies, like "Hamlet," are exhilarating, because we have little idea how quirks of character will bring about the final doom.
Jul 12, 2002 · Somber, stately, and beautifully mounted, Sam Mendes' Road to Perdition is a well-crafted mob movie that explores the ties between fathers and sons. Mike Sullivan (Tom Hanks) is an enforcer...
- Crime, Drama
Michael Sullivan, Sr. (Tom Hanks) is an enforcer for Rock Island Irish mob boss John Rooney (Paul Newman), during the Great Depression. Rooney raised the orphan Sullivan and loves him more than his own biological son, the unstable Connor (Daniel Craig).
Road to Perdition: Directed by Sam Mendes. With Tyler Hoechlin, Rob Maxey, Liam Aiken, Jennifer Jason Leigh. A mob enforcer's son in 1930s Illinois witnesses a murder, forcing him and his father to take to the road, and his father down a path of redemption and revenge.
Jul 12, 2002 · Intense, methodical and extremely underrated, Road to Perdition is much more than a 1930s era gangster movie. Its incredibly well shot and you get to see a much colder side of Tom Hanks in this as he is a ruthless enforcer for the mob.
Two-time Academy Award® winner Tom Hanks in “one of his best performances” (Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times) stars as Michael Sullivan, a father fighting to keep his only son from traveling...
Mike Sullivan works as a hit man for crime boss John Rooney. Sullivan views Rooney as a father figure, however after his son is witness to a killing, Mike Sullivan finds himself on the run in attempt to save the life of his son and at the same time looking for revenge on those who wronged him.
“There’s only one guarantee,” Irish crime boss John Rooney tells his number-one enforcer, Michael Sullivan. “None of us will see heaven.” Their particular road to hell is paved with brutality, ruthless extortion and countless murders, yet each cares more for his family than he does his own life.
