The Road

The Road

The trailer for John Hillcoat’s adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Road has his the interwebs, and it’s viewable right here.

The film looks suitably bleak and the performances look strong, but it’s hard not to feel that this is being marketed in a strange way, at least from this trailer…it seemed a little excessively fast paced, like a disaster movie or something. But whether the trailer does the film justice or not, there is no denying that the intense, brutal imagery is mesmeric. The film has recently gained positive buzz, being labelled by Esquire as the most important movie of the year. What with the success of previous McCarthy adaptation No Country for Old Men, most people have already booked their ticket for this bandwagon, but if you hadn’t this trailer should have whetted your appetite.

The movie stars Viggo Mortensen (Lord of the Rings, A History of Violence, Eastern Promises) and Fire (The Dawn of Man).