Cert: 15 cert
Parents advised to read before viewing film as some scene may contain scenes unsuitable for younger viewers.
Sex & Nudity: Nudity is never sexual, and nothing explicit is shown.
There are several flashbacks of a man and his wife sharing tender moments. This includes kissing, hugging, and at one point the man touches his wife's thigh underneath her skirt as they are in a public place (non-explicit).
A man and his son swim in a waterfall, showing the man nude from behind. In this point, we can see the man's buttocks and legs. The scene is brief (4 seconds at the most) and non-sexual. There is also one more scene with the same content, involving the man swimming in the ocean to find valuables in a ship. Once again, non-sexual.
A man and his son take off their clothes. We can see their bare backs and chests. The boy bathes, and there is no nudity, other than his chest and back.
Near the climax of the film, a man makes a thief strip so that his clothes can be taken. He is only seen nude from the side, and the most we see is his legs and thighs
Violence & Gore: Most of the violence is only implied or heard.
The film involves danger, threats, and a gloomy atmosphere.
A man is shown with a burning flare on his chest. He is dead. The scene is not too disturbing, and it is brief.
There are men chasing a woman and a boy. When they are caught, they are killed. This however, is only implied and never shown.
A father protects his son by holding a man at gun-point who is a threat. The man holds the boy as a hostage and he has a knife close to his throat. The father shoots the man, making him fall to the ground. When the father runs to his son, there is some blood on his face from the other man. The boy is unharmed. The scene is brief, and not too violent or disturbing.
Once the father returns to the site where he killed the man, he sees that there are remains on the ground. Cannibalism is implied for the man, but it is never shown being done. This scene is milder than it sounds.
A father and son find bodies hanging in a barn. There is no blood in this scene, nor is there gore.
A man is shot in the leg with a crossbow. He is bleeding, and later pours alcohol over it. He staples his wound (not shown), and we hear him in pain.
The most violent scene in the film is probably when a father and son walk into a hatch and see several people left in suffering. The scene however, is dark and it is hard to see any violence, especially since the scene is very brief. One man in this cellar is missing a leg, but is still alive. Again, this scene is taken place in the dark and it is hard for viewers to see. The scene is especially brief.
Profanity: The profanity is not as much as you'd expect from an R-rated film.
There are exactly 4 F-words The rest of the language is at a PG-13 level. Profanity is not constant.
Alcohol/Drugs/Smoking: A man smokes cigarettes in several scenes. A son asks his father if he can have some alcohol, and the answer is no.
Frightening/Intense Scenes The film involves the story of a father and son surviving an unknown-apocalypse. The most frightening aspect of the film would be the "gangs" who resort to cannibalism since food is rare. There are also scenes where cannibalism is implied. Most of it is not shown, and mostly heard. This is a very realistic end-of-the-world scenario, but it also shows how we should be grateful for the world we live in. Looking out for each other, is a strong message in the film.
Story : Some unnamed catastrophe has scourged the world to a burnt-out cinder,inhabited by the last remnants of mankind and a very few surviving dogs and fungi. The sky is perpetually shrouded by dust and toxic particulates; the
seasons are merely varied intensities of cold and dampness. Bands of cannibals roam the roads and inhabit what few dwellings remain intact in the woods.Through this nightmarish residue of America a haggard father and his young
son attempt to flee the oncoming Appalachian winter and head towards the southern coast along carefully chosen back roads. Mummified corpses are their only benign companions, sitting in doorways and automobiles, variously impaled or displayed on pikes and tables and in cake bells, or they rise in frozen poses of horror and agony out of congealed asphalt. The boy and his father hope to avoid the marauders, reach a milder climate, and perhaps locate some remnants of civilization still worthy of that name. They possess only what they can scavenge to eat, and the rags they wear and the heat of their own bodies are all the shelter they have. A pistol with only a few bullets is their only defense besides flight. Before them the father pushes a shopping cart filled with blankets, cans of food and a few other assets, like jars of lamp oil or gasoline siphoned from the tanks of abandoned vehicles—the cart is equipped with a bicycle mirror so that they will not be surprised from behind A father (Viggo Mortensen) and son make their way across a post-apocalyptic United States in hopes of finding civilization amongst the nomadic cannibal tribes
Likes : This film was OK very heart warming, you could understand the struggle to survive in the apocalyptic world.With a surplus of post-apocalyptic/disaster flicks present in today's film circle, the Road does what very few films in any genre seem capable of doing. Here is a picture that in it's own discreteness captures the realism of a holocaust horror, combining the absolute worst possible future with the most profoundly beautiful human characteristics that keep the main characters persevering. Not only does the story accurately exhibit the polar opposite aspects of a post apocalyptic existence, but the cinematography used during the flashbacks of a life full of color and hope many take for granted, is excellently positioned with the dark, dismal, and often terrifying reality that is the Road. The score was also fantastic and perfectly appropriate for the film.the ending which was NOT at all a disappointment, but I felt it was quite open, without giving anything away. This is a minor issue, for the story in itself was a journey, and we see only a small portion of the great, tragic, and ultimately fulfilling struggle.
Dislike : One problem with this film was the story line it doesn't say how the apocalyptic started & it very slow apart from that it was OK.
Overall : Try not to think about killing yourself during The Road, John Hillcoat's remorselessly grim adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's 2006 novel of the same name. The film runs just shy of two hours, though it feels a good deal longer. We are at the end of the world – again – and, unlike the spectacular meltdown in 2012, there's no masterplan to ship out the deserving few in giant rescue arks. In McCarthy's apocalyptic vision, humankind is on its very last legs, and there's nobody coming to save us. Actually, they're coming to eat us.not a bad film just be prepared to sit through a slow but heart warming film.
Rating: 2 out of 5 stars for entertainment, 6 out of 10 for storyline
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