But there are chills at the heart of this journey which are unlikely to warm up word-of-mouth or bring out audiences the way American Beauty did to the tune of $250m-plus. With a smashing cast led by Tom Hanks and Paul Newman, the film should win good reviews and post strong results at the box office when it opens in the US on July 12.
(Oct.Brit wunderkind Sam Mendes takes another close look at warts-and-all America in his second film Road To Perdition, a Depression-era gangster movie set in and around Chicago which confirms both his command of the medium and his signature visual bravado.
Like movie posters, his drawings capture the action with a combination of slick draftsmanship and the bleak and shadowy forms of cinematic noir. Though Rayner's b&w drawings can be static, they are precisely rendered with strikingly delineated faces. But O'Sullivan is essentially a superhero in a fedora, and his ability to kill an overwhelming number of adversaries with nary a scratch to show for it is a bit ridiculous. Collins writes a good gangster yarn based on historical personalities and full of crisp dialogue, violent action and brooding overtones of religious redemption. The Looneys go into hiding, and O'Sullivan and son set out to find them, encountering the celebrities of gangland Chicago along the way. They murder O'Sullivan's wife and younger son, leaving him stunned but determined to have his revenge. Fearing what the kid saw, the Looneys set the O'Sullivans up to be killed. He inadvertently witnesses his father and one of the Looneys murder a crooked cop and his partners. stows away in his car to see what he does for a living. Curious about his dad's mysterious "job," Michael Jr. It's 1930 and O'Sullivan works for the Looneys, an Irish mob family with a stranglehold on the politics and businesses of a small Midwestern city.
It's the story of Michael O'Sullivan, a feared and religiously inclined mob hit man who's brutally betrayed-and the fierce vengeance he wreaks. Originally published as a single-volume graphic novel in 1998, this is the comics work upon which the Tom Hanks movie is based.
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