When it ends, I think I can smell blood and gunpowder. It is a kind of quiet movie.

Very good film. It's interesting see Tom Hanks in action role. He did it great. "I Shoot The Dead"

A well-written gangster story about family, revenge and going your own way regardless of potential authority figures.

Excellent movie. One of the best ever.

Tom gives a superb performance in a rarely seen role of a bad guy who has some good traits.

Despite an outstanding cast (Tom Hanks, Jude Law, Daniel Craig and Paul Newman's final screen appearance), under-explored setting (organized crime in the depression-era midwest) and very solid inspiration (it's directly and admittedly influenced by Lone Wolf and Cub), this never quite congeals into anything more than a dull, formulaic revenge picture.

Hanks, usually the beating heart of a film, is chained down by a dry, emotionless turn as a distant father figure whose young family is virtually obliterated by an out-of-control former colleague. On the path to revenge, he tries to reconnect with the onslaught’s only other survivor, his twelve-year-old son, but the two have such a faint rapport that the inevitable payoff lands on a flat note.

Craig and Law are worthwhile in their roles as quirky, irredeemable psychopaths, but get so little screen time it's tough to develop an appreciation for the nuances of either. For the majority of the run time we're just tailing Hanks, at his most wooden, as he systematically wipes out the opposition. Bland, redundant, over-long material that misuses its many blessings.

A solid period piece revenge movie. It's great to see Tom Hanks have a darker role.

Great directing just loved it..Little bit slow in some parts but overall it was a very good movie worths surely a watch!

What a great movie. Thank god it's a bit slow paced, so you can absorb every second, every detail of this amazing recreation of the thirties.

Mediocre and rather slow pacing movie about "the road to perdition": after his wife and younger son are murdered by Conner Rooney, Michael "Mike" Sullivan takes vendetta on the whole Rooney clan. Unfortunately, the story is predictable.

Extremely good, highly recommend. The film starts slow but gets better and better as it goes along. The cinematography is consistently interesting and evocative. Will definitely rewatch.

I've never really forgiven Tom Hanks for going straight. Probably why it's taken me nearly 20 years to watch this.
It is, however, excellent.

I liked it until they got to the aunt's house. How did Maguire get there?