Cormac McCarthy has a way of drawing the reader into his books. The Road is a great book. No Country for Old men is a great book and was made into a great movie. The Road was made into a forgettable movie. We have another post apocalyptic story that centers around a man and his boy. It is a sad dreary existence and that is about the only thing the movie portrays correctly. Viggo Mortensen is a good actor and he does a fine job as a father desperate to keep his son alive long enough to be able to take care of himself. He is the song of experience while the boy is the song innocence. The boy still has a little bit humanity that the father can’t afford. Charlize Theron is the mother and has no place in the story, but we get her inserted for no good reason. Cameos by Robert Duval and Guy Pearce are nice. This is a book that shouldn’t be a movie. The parables are too subtle and too deep. They don’t translate into screen magic. After the success of No Country it appears someone optioned The Road and thought to capitalize on Cormac’s name. Maybe I liked the book too much and had unrealistic expectations for the movie. Perhaps, but maybe it is just another bad film.