Viggo Mortensen gave a good performance, as well as the boy who played his son. The film also really looks like and convinces you that an apocalyptic event took place which stood out to me. A very dirty and cruel/harsh world with little room to trust other people and little opportunity to get comfortable. However, I wish I saw a little bit more of what happened after the event started and what made it get as bad as it ended up being. The plot got slightly distracted a couple of times and there was an odd edit where the son had just taken a bath and had his face cleaned but in the very next shot his face was dirty (and in the shot after that it was back to clean again just seconds later). It was an emotional story too though and the father dying actually made it a better ending that felt like an appropriate conclusion for his character.
Review of The Road
