The Road is based on the novel by Cormac McCarthy starring Viggo Mortensen, Charlize Theron and Kodi Smit-McKee.
Director John Hillcoat has done a great job of visualising a destroyed and dying world populated by dangerous people. The camera work is excellent, and atmospheric, which helps create and sustain an ominous air of tension up to the last minute.
The man (Mortensen) and his son (Smit-McKee) are battling their way wearily towards the coast and hopefully security. In the meantime they have to evade ferocious cannibals and not knowing who to trust. A very creditable film with an unexpected ending