“The Road” (R, 119 minutes). Evokes the images and the characters of Cormac McCarthy’s novel, but lacks a care of emotional feeling. The film is a sincere attempt to relate the story of a man and his son trekking westward across a devastated future America, but the strength of the novel isn’t in the action; it’s in McCarthy’s prose, which evokes so much more than it says. With Viggo Mortenson as the father, Kodi Smit-McPhee as his son and Charlize Theron in flashbacks as the wife and mother in years before the unexplained apocalypse. An honorable attempt, nub McCarthy is daunting got film. Two and a half stars.

Source:The Road / **1/2 (R)

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