Road to Perdition.......The Reckoning

[@mobiz711]

Man, the whole scene plays out on Paul Newman's face. What a fantastic performance.

[@desktopshorts7411]

Love how Rooney knows it's his time to die as soon as he gets to the car. And Sullivan's grief at having to exact unwanted but necessary revenge is heartbreaking. It's another son killing a father in a story of murdered sons & fathers.

[@Locktwiste72]

A brutally violent yet very beautiful scene. No sound of bullets flying, no screams, yells, grunts. Even the sound if the rain disappears. And no final words from Sullivan as he slaughters Rooney. As someone said before, he just gets business done. And the way Sullivan slowly melts out of the shadows like a ghost into the light after killing Rooney's men was excellently shot. I am a big Tom Thanks fan, and for me this dramatic role of his is my favorite. THE UNTOUCHABLES (1987) was my favorite mob film until ROAD TO PERDITION came along. This scene is cinematic perfection itself. Those old days of manners and respect are unfortunately long gone.

[@tony.bickert]

Silence and piano keys.

[@JudielFua]

Smooth.

[@creasedlinen]

All you need is Thomas Newman

[@mortbrown1968]

I guess you went deaf when Tom opens up on Paul. All you hear is the gunfire. SMH.

[@Emperorlawson]

LOVE how the elevator guy at 4:18 just simply opens the door for him and how the body guard at 4:50 just steps aside. What cinema is supposed to be.

[@vonslagle]

Early 20th Century Cinema it is. Don't doubt it

[@danielcrespo7256]

Paul Newman's last line of cinematic dialogue addressed to Tom Hanks.. "I'm glad it's you."

[@Alconium]

It's even more beautiful when you consider the silence of the henchmen and how plain Sullivan's expression is, then Rooney says he's glad it's him, and Sullivan looks emotional and then it's just deafening, the chaotic sound of a tommy gun. That release of emotion he'd been holding in to get to that point. The sound design was perfect here, intentional or not.

[@Johnny-rj9on]

In truth, Tom Hanks was horribly miscast. Imagine Daniel Day-Lewis in this role, but then again... imagine Daniel Day-Lewis in any role. Within a few years, we'll have the ability to replace any actor in any movie with any actor we want.

[@TheDrexelUK]

@@Johnny-rj9on sounds awful

[@fireflyman]

Two of the best possible examples I can think of how to use a soundtrack properly in a scene.

[@Locktwiste72]

Another thing about this film I like. Frank Nitti as portrayed by the wonderful Stanley Tucci is closer to the real Nitti than Billy Drago's version in THE UNTOUCHABLES (1987). Drago's version of Frank Nitti was an ice-cold, pure-evil, cardboard cutout assassin from hell but in reality Nitti was like Tucci's version here - a suave businessman and right hand man of Al Capone.

[@flightofthebumblebee9529]

Connor Rooney never had the makings of a varsity athlete.

[@bluesman6891]

Three of the most powerful scenes... my favorite movie

[@kmetcalfe]

It's easy to forget how incredibly well directed all these scenes are, as you are captivated by the acting done in mostly complete silence.

[@Yuurei21]

3:59 I love the simplicity of this scene. No grand speeches or over type gun battle. Just intent and conviction. This is cinematography done right.

[@bocconom]

Exactly. The music is perfect.

[@Yuurei21]

​@bocconom And the camera angles! It's like you're not a part of the audience anymore, you are a witness. You following him into the hotel. The overhead shot, it adds to the drama. As if god is giving him his blessing.

[@bocconom]

@@Yuurei21 The camera angle shots were fantastic. The one that stands out for me is when he is walking the hallway and you see him from a top down view.

[@stevefowler2112]

Pro Tip: If automatic weapons are available for a high value protection detail, don't carry sidearms as your primary firearm, carry automatic weapons (a U.S. Recon Marine vet. and former Close Combat Instructor).

[@Rroff2]

Not sure it would have made any difference here - he had the drop on them. The protection detail doing their job relative to the situation would make more odds i.e. using more than one car and bringing the car to the person they are protecting rather than taking the person they are protecting to the car over open ground.

[@c.c.manbattleborn8951]

They don't make movies like this anymore. Really sad

[@joewright2304]

Hanks deserved another academy award for this one.

[@thehonorablereese]

Love how Tom Hanks doesn't say any clever words or give any speeches when he kills these guys: he just gets business done.

[@vonslagle]

I'd like to think that's what is more realistic.

[@vanmoody]

I wouldn't call it business. It was very personal. They did kill his youngest son and wife and were coming for him and his eldest boy. His lack of emotion is because he is a hitman. He's been there and done that.

[@Flypidge]

thehonorablereese still would have been shit if he said "You took my family now I'm takin yours" 😂😂

That would've been a PERFECT line! Still, I do like how he says nothing.

[@83j049733rfe4]

There is emotion though. Emotion he just doesn't have the words for. He knew all of these people. Rooney senior was practically a father to him, if I remember right. There was loyalty he had for all of these people that ended in his real family, his wife, his youngest son, dead... The person you've trusted more than your own wife, even, and his son kills her, then starts trying to kill you and your son, too? What could you possibly say, that could even begin to address that betrayal? What could you say, when you still care enough about the person that betrayed you, that you have to hesitate for nearly 10 seconds before finally just emptying the entire remains of a 50 round drum on them?

[@DodgerFan1988]

Holy Shit, Forrest Gump killed James Bond!

[@TheMadSentinel]

And now that young boy's about to wrap up one of the better portrayals of Superman himself...

[@ONEFATE9]

"I'm glad it's you." That's all that needed to be said.

[@baramelon]

To me, this film was all surface, no feeling. Millers Crossing had it all.

[@harlannorris6035]

This is one of my favorite movies.

[@Jake4211-]

Michael Sullivan the original "Baba Yaga"

[@valbensaul]

Looks like they saved a couple thousand bucks by not hiring a weapon specialist. In a bathtub scene he is pointing downwards, but the blood splash is way up high, And his gun is not cycling and no shells flying out but you can hear the sound of them falling on the floor. And at the end of the movie at the beach house when he gets shot in the back , the blood is spread on the window, but no bullet went through the glass. 👏👏

[@nicholasmuro1742]

May be he was sitting up at first.

[@marksieber4626]

Staged like Death of Marat painting. Very nice cinematography!

[@zejaguar]

Great film. I never thought TH was goid actor until I watched this film.

[@bigfern62]

We got Big..Forrest Gump...Philadelphia...Cast Away ...etc....but this has always been my favorite Tom Hanks movie

[@paulstuhrenberg9165]

Amazing how that 1911 fires without the hammer being cocked!

[@Crazycoyote-we7ey]

This is actually a comic book adaptation

[@sven_86]

I'm Glad it's you........

[@jamesfox3478]

Tom Hanks will never be nothing like Paul Newman!

[@rayramirez9979]

It hurt more Sullivan then it hurt killing Paul Newman he was like his father. But it was personal .what a movie

[@rossyr.7622]

Best Tom Hanks ❤

[@eduardotirado839]

What a hell of a movie…

[@pauldarling330]

The fact the 1911 didn't actually fire at all bothers me more than it should. No slide movement. No cocking of the hammer. No cases ejected (though the sounds were added later). come on man!

[@dj3114]

I'm normally far more observant - good eye, I dint catch that. Even if you account for faster slide movement than you can see, on the last shot, the hammer is still down, and wasn't the last shot or it would have locked back. Very good.

[@FiveKnuckleShufflah]

This movie made the greatest Bond. Also marked Cool Hand Lukes film swan song.

[@jamesfox3478]

Now why is the car parked so far away from the restaurant?

[@nicholasmuro1742]

Because they had umbrellas

[@billystpaul8907]

It does...both movies are classics....

[@DanielJamesEgan]

Dudes gunned down at the beginning: "Yeah I could find cover, but this is so much more cinematic."

[@Dancing88Mike]

@Emperorlawson those were Connors guards they knew what orders had been given to Michael, through contacts of Capone.

[@zackhod8661]

5:39🥲🥹”when Michael and Son embraced!!!”

[@FiveKnuckleShufflah]

Possibly the greatest on screen exit ever

[@BugMateo]

The music is special...

[@pickeljarsforhillary102]

James Bond aint got shit on Micheal Sullivan.

[@sayros6711]

The only flaw in this is Michael Sullivan pulling out his gun in the hallway and, for whatever reason, it makes a sound like someone just racked it.

[@christ6463]

That, and in the bathroom, the 1911 45 that Hanks is using never really fired any shot at all. The gun stays at hammer down the whole time. They added the muzzle flashes and sound during post production.

[@SavageCode]

That way no one is shot on set.​@christ6463

[@tony.bickert]

But wouldn’t the boy feel forever guilty for setting in motion the deaths of his mother and brother?

[@massiveforehead]

Any one notice that his pistol had the hammer down instead of in the single action cocked ready to fire position. Ohhh Hollywood, that was a simple thing to get right. Yes im a gun nut.

[@thomast8539]

Plus, there were no spent shell casings ejected when he killed Daniel Craig's character.

[@bicrehan]

Door guard's like, "Well hey thanks Mike! Now I have to clean Fauntelroy's head off the fuckin' wall."

[@jonathanisernhagen6515]

It's not like he didn't aim all three shots down. I guess there were some weird ricochettes.

[@paulshri8609]

Movie had a mythic quality 👌

[@deevee4994]

My favorite Tom Hanks movie.

[@jussiesommelier]

4:30 This long shot is so good

[@redlumb953]

that bloke in a shootout still holding up his brolly

[@Terri2799]

FAVORITE scene!

[@johnt1941]

Is it just me or does this music have remnants of Shawshank?

[@inkey2]

+John T It's weird you say that.......this movie and Shawshank are two of my favorite movies

[@DarthBrtt]

It makes sense since they both were composed by Thomas Newman.

[@FiveKnuckleShufflah]

I am honoured to have sedn this in theatres

[@thomast8539]

Uh, no shells were kicked out of Mike's 1911 at 5:05??? Every 1911 ejects spent shells.

[@tankmaker9807]

The slide never moves, so it can't eject a casing. A 1911 also kicks, hard.

[@omnivorous65]

As impressive and beautiful the scene is, the very fact that none of the people involved behave remotely in a way circumstances would dictate or necessitate spoils it for me. The moment they see the driver killed the men would disperse and run for cover not presenting themselves as targets. At least one of them would try to cover their boss. The second bullets are flying they would seek for cover behind the car and not just draw their guns and shoot in the open. Sullivan unloads his gun for seconds while pointing at the same spot aiming his gun at the same angle. The first or the first two bullets would have sent his victim to the ground and he had to adjust his aim downwards.

[@aldouriel6357]

6:06 Klaus Baudelaire hugs Woody

[@MrCabimero]

... and the music!!!

[@electrojones]

I think this didn't need a sequel. Road to Perdition 2: Fartin' Jerry Goes to the Moon is just not anywhere near as good.

[@HelloIamBen]

These guys must believe in respawn cause they clearly don't believe in cover.

[@johnschnellbach986]

Do you know why all of your inaccuracies you keep citing in the movie occur? Because it's in the script.

[@seantalkingthroughthemedia4838]

Love the way we used to dress. We really have lost some class

[@mcgurkryans]

5:16… blood splatter doesn’t make sense. If bullet is coming from the top downward, splatter should be BELOW the head; not above it. He didn’t shoot him from the floor.

[@GebSpez15215]

it makes perfect sense. he stood up, tried to. got shot.

[@mcgurkryans]

@@GebSpez15215when he shoots him, the gun is angled downward. Daniel Craig was laying in the bath; not standing straight up.

[@Timcanniff311]

Just noticed the hammer was not back for any of those shots

[@rampageclover9788]

Huge disparity between these two hits....with John, after the death of wife and son it is hands down the most painful thing Michael will ever have to endure, left with no other choice than to kill the man whose the closest thing he's had to a father....then with Conor, he rightly feels absolutely nothing...but at the same time, he does grant him a quick exit which many would argue he doesn't deserve one bit....but if Michael was to take his time and truly make Conor pay for what he's done, he'd be no better than him....and he'd walk away from that ordeal feeling no sense of release at all.....

[@TheGimpPimp1]

@ancienteternal1 I think you have just become my personal HERO.....

[@gerthietumampo9820]

They were more scared to get wet than getting hit with bullets

[@billbergeron8658]

The music.

[@MrKajithecat]

The Irish and the Italians have a truce for a moment to get rid of that monster. Be blessed by the mobster god himself Al Capone to end this feud, that's awesome.

[@leoperidot482]

Where have I seen the bathroom execution before? Oh yeah, in THE SOPRANOS, where Brendan Filloni gets whacked.

[@WestrnPhlyr2000]

Hi Jack....Bye Jack.

[@martinpeyton2291]

Tom Hanks WILL kill James Bond. Look after yourselves out there.

[@devi2691]

first time i saw this, i wondered one thing. does Conner kill himself? i.e. he heard about the death of his dad, knew the end was coming and took the easy way out. 2 points. the amount of red in the bathtub, is not consistent for 3 quick shots. the water's too red. and Sullivan's resigned expression, just before he pulls the trigger. it's probably wrong, Conner was too stunned to cry out, and i'm sure the director and stars have said different. but.. it just doesn't sit exact to me. Conner was such a coward, it does make sense he's offs himself before Mike can get to him..

[@kingbowser1022]

Nope you’re overthinking this one. It’s because it’s a movie, lol.

[@devi2691]

@@kingbowser1022 yeahhhh... you're talking like 2002 was a difficult time for movies cos of the lack of technology, and SFX. i'm just stating what the scene shows. if Sam Mendes (he's the director) saw what he had to work with, threw up his arms and said "Fuk it, act like you can't be bothered, Tom," I'll understand. is that what happened on set? any insight from your end?

[@zeusuk100]

To add to the realism he could have done a couple of Schwarzenegger style quips as he shoots them. For example, "Knock knock" could have worked well with Mr Rooneys son in the bathroom.

[@marcinktl1541]

Do sad ... He killed Man that he treated as father to save his own family ... He knew a horror od loosing a child and knew that is not something that he deserves so He killed him before his real son ... Sory for my bad eng xD im drunk

[@Riskmangler]

Speaking of Reckoning, where's Epstein's list?

[@peterloo3136]

Soldiers always stay 15 feet apart.

[@fredleinweber2819]

Sorry but I hate unrealistic scenes like this. One guy gunning down a bunch of others in the dark and rain from a distance, as all of them just happen to miss as they try firing back.

[@thomast8539]

And, why did it take so long for the other five to go down after the first one in front of the car? It took 7 seconds for Mike to hit the second guy (immediately followed by the rest), yet he never stopped firing. We know this because the camera shows the muzzle flashes.