The Road, to put it simply, is an awesome film - just such raw emotion, with the recurring theme of suicide adding to the bleakness of the whole thing. Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Boy) is almost amazing enough to steal the film away from Viggo Mortensen, who everyone should know by is a pretty shit-hot actor (hire out Eastern Promises). I wouldn't be surprised if people compared The Road to The Book of Eli (starring Denzel Washington), and while it is a bit similar in the fact that they are both set in post-apocalyptic America and that there is a lot of walking involved, Eli's overt pro-Christian overtones put me off a bit, as did the average ending twist. The fact that The Road more or less avoided violence throughout a large majority of the film helped kept the plot solely focused on the human relationships, as opposed to descending into Mad Max styled action (which somewhat weighed Eli down). Check out both though, but for my money The Road takes the cake by quite a bit.
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