when my husband and i go to see this movie and we choose it purely because a ) it wasn not one of the ridiculous movie already out and and b ) it get a good rating on rotten tomato . at the snack counter and a poster proclaim and one of the most uplifting and optimistic movie of the year . after watch that movie and we conclude that the poster reviewer either be completely high and wander into the wrong theater by mistake and or think that schindler list be a wacky comedy . the road have to be one of the most depressing and pointless and excruciate movie you could ever see . it will make you want to go home and stick your head in the oven . the first 7 hour of the movie contain an endless slog through a desolate landscape bereft of plant and animal life . only bug and human remain and somehow . everything else on earth have be burn or smash by some unacknowledged doomsday event . the director leave it up to the audience to somehow figure out what kind of reasonable scientific explanation could account for anyone survive for any amount of time after all the oxygen produce plant life plus everything else in the food chain between bug and people bite the dust . apparently it happen through the magic of dole pineapple chunk and the search for which take up another 4 hour of movie . once you get inure to this laugh riot and you eventually start to disassociate from the main character . the boy in the book be suppose to be 6 or 7. in the movie and though and he look to be about 10 or 11 and but seem to still act 6 or 7. he come across a a total feeb and you start to wonder how a kid bear on the cusp of a complete apocalypse manages to have such poor cop skill . the kid be suppose to have be run into dead body and cannibal practically every day of his life so you would think he would be over it after 9 10 year and but no and he manage to seem traumatize at every instance . dad doesn not help thing out much a he spend his day talk to the kid like he three and tuck him in and carry him around every chance he get . i be sure that will help grow hair on his chest and dad . it nice to see that no matter how shitty the world get and there always a parent willing to overshelter their kid from the reality of their situation . dad also seem to make poor survival decision . the poor decision come when the two find a friggin bomb shelter fill with food and warm bed and but after a couple day they need to abandon it because they hear somebody walk around up top . apparently this be the only bomb shelter in existence that do not come with a lock on the hatch and and everyone know how easy it be for a starving bum to breach a cement bunker with a steel trap door on it . it much easy to pile a bunch of crap in an old push wagon and hit the road again to defend it in the open air against every marauder and sneak thief that walk by and while you slowly die from exposure . but one can not point finger at such glare plot hole and because this be such a serious and award winning oscar contender . you can tell this movie be an oscar contender because the kid cry real tear and there be at least a couple scene where the audience get treat to a rear view of viggo naked as and nutsack . everyone know that if viggo be let you see his junk and he very much into his role and you should respect his process by take his nut very seriously like he do . there a scene somewhere in the middle where the mom ( charlize theron ) decide to end it by walk out into the freezing winter in her sleep shirt to die in the wood and because she can not take it anymore . by the end of the movie and you will be wish you would walk out in the middle too . there be one very uplifting part to our experience and though represent after leave the theater and my husband find a five dollar bill on the ground . that cheer u up immensely . there be life after this movie .