With Vigo Mortensen, I thought the movie adaptation of the book would be better. After all here is the action star of the Lord of the Rings trilogy. I was wrong. As boring as the book was, the movie is a lot more boring.
After some sort of world holocaust a father and his son wander around whatever is left just trying to survive while trying to avoid cannibalistic "bad people." Occasionally the father remembers his dead wife (she committed suicide) or has some odd dream remembering the past. He keeps insisting that he himself would be dead too if he was not tasked with protecting his son.
The movie had some merit because the father must shield his son from seeing a lot of ugly things (decayed corpses, people that are essentially cannibals) and there are a lot of moral questions that come into play -what to do with the occasional stranger they meet? Should they help them, ignore them, kill them, etc. One stranger is caught stealing their stuff and there is a little bit of suspense while the audience wonders what Mortensen will do to him in front of his son.
A brief encounter with a heavily make-uped Robert Duvall as an old man does very little to breathe life into this boring yawner.
Not sure why other Lunchers rated this movie so high.
