
So, ‘The Road’ for once may not be another clichéd katastrophenfilm with space monkeys enslaving texas hero rednecks after a nuclear endwar. However, under its unpolished, crushing, leadlike, deserted landscape and more introverted take on existentialism, a really harrowing forlornness, ‘The Road’ is not much more emphatic, yet just as implausibly overdrawn and puritan as any other serious postapocalyptic drama scenario to date. Ever played Fallout 3?
