The Road – It's not Mad Max

I went to see The Road last night, and I wondered how many people in the (quite busy) theatre were expecting to experience the excitment, adventure, and 'Mad Max' type shennanigans that the trailer suggested they were going to see. But Mad Max this is not. The film is bleak and grey and not for the faint hearted. It does a pretty good job of translating Cormac McCarthy's powerfully emotive and harrowing novel to the screen – unfortunately losing the beauty of his prose – but I can't imagine...