Road To Perdition (2002) 8/10

Starring : Tom Hanks, Daniel Craig, Paul Newman, Tyler Hoechlin, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jude Law
Director : Sam Mendes
Running Time : 118 mins

When young Michael Sullivan Jr (Hoechlin) discovers what his father Mike (Hanks) does for a living, the whole family find themselves in danger from the gangsters Mike works for, who don’t trust the boy to keep their business a secret and hire an assassin to hunt them down and kill them.

This was a well paced movie, filled with surprise moments and the kind of ending you would expect from director Sam Mendes. It’s nice to see a comic book treated with such loyalty, and the transition makes for an entertaining film. Hanks plays the doubtful hitman well, with Paul Newman and Daniel Craig putting in admirable performances as the mob bosses, and Jude Law is surprisingly effective as the hitman sent after Hanks.

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