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Title: Tom Hanks is no Al Pacino (in Gangster Roles)
Review: Although Road to Perdition is not a terrible movie, I feel that the entire movie suffers from a fatal flaw made before the first day of filming, and that's the casting of Tom Hanks as an organized crime hit man. Sorry, it just doesn't work. Hanks, although a brilliant actor, simply wasn't believable as a hit man. He's no menacing Al Pacino (The Godfather, Scarface), or even Gary Oldman (JFK, Sid and Nancy, Air Force One).Even if I could have gotten past Hanks as a hit man (I can't), there's the dark and brooding look to the film, which obscures a lot of the action. Another bad decision in the making of the film. Ultimately, it was kind of boring and a waste of time.This movie compares unfavorably to the much better crime genre movie "Miller's Crossing" by the Coen brothers. Now that's a good mob movie set in the 1930s, only done in a very artistic and entertaining way.
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