Movie..Road to Perdition...

[aldabra]

Tom Hanks and Paul Newman...what more could a movie buff ask for? Nice to see Hanks come out in a role as an Irish mob hitman.. circa 1931.
Newman is great as aged family " Don " easily one of top films I have seen in last 5 years...keeps your interest from beginning to
end...it has been around a couple months or so ...
One of the few out lately I would have sat thru twice...

 

[redsfann]

While I liked this movie, Aldabra, I can't quite give it the ringing endorsement that you have. Compared to most of the drivel thats been releaased in the last 6 months, it is quite good; but overall, I was disapointed a bit.


My interest was in seeing the story by Max Allan Collins being put on film. You might have heard of him as the writer of the Dick Tracy comic strip. He is a from Muscatine, Iowa( half hour south of here) and John Looney was a well-known gangster from Rock Island, Illinois(directly across the Mississippi River from here).

There have been numerous articles in the papers and on TV about Looney and the Rock Island County Historical Society even ran tours of the area where his home and taverns were located.

Edited to correct Looney's name from Mooney......:shrug:

 

[MadJack]

man, when i saw that tom hanks and paul newman were in a mob movie, i RAN out to see it. i guess i had my hopes set too high because i thought the movie was so-so. i was actually happy when it was over (my ass was killing me) and i didn't like the ending at all. but, it IS a lot better than most movies that have been released lately, that's for sure. i would not see it again. nope.

 

[Neemer]

CHIT,......I've never heard of it..

 

[aldabra]

ending was honest

ending was honest

Hanks earlier comment to Newman about son 's chance of going to heaven cinched the ending...different strokes Bring back the old Untouchable series with Robert Stack...now that was
classic gangster....