First thing, let me say that I forgot to mention that a guy from Coupling was in Ninja Assassin!  He was like the “Joey/Chandler” character in that English version of Friends.  He didn’t have a chain-knife so I guess I forgot him.  It’s been a banner month for Coupling, with another regular in Pirate Radio, and even though that was already released in England, it’s still a good trivia answer over here.

Anyway, The Road is one of those movies almost makes a post-apocalyptic barren world seem like a bad thing.  You are going to be on hold for a long-ass time, for example, and there’s a good chance that nobody is ever going to tell you how to realign the satellite so that you can catch the Victoria’s Secret fashion show (go Jamie Lee!).

The whole thing is Viggo (the Dad) and Kodi (the son), so be honest with yourself regarding how you feel about Viggo.  We’ve already agreed, haven’t we, that Viggo is awesome and can do little, if any wrong?  This kid Kodi, then, is  the real find.  If you can  watch the world as he knows it come staggering to an end in Viggo’s eyes,  you can see all the possible hope any and all humans hold in Kodi’s.  And dude was born in 1996.  Amazing.  He’s also a casting triumph, he really looks exactly like what you’d think the child of Viggo and Charlize would look like.

The rest of the roles amount to cameos, and I won’t spoil them for you. On one you’ll literally have to go by what he sounds like.  A buzz went around the theater as people rightly figured out who was crouching almost blind on the road side.

This movie is getting distributed as an art film and that’s too bad.  There’s drama, fights, explosions, fires, guns, not-enough-ammo, all the stuff anybody goes to bigger films for.  And there may be, you know, “messages” if you want to find them, but you don’t have to.  I’ve ended the last two sentences incorrectly.  I know that.  But if the world’s gonna end anything like this movies makes it look, the last thing I’m gonna worry about is grammar.  Also, I’m saving some canned peaches- word to the wise.