OT: The 25 best Tom Hanks films – ranked!

OT: The 25 best Tom Hanks films – ranked! Mar 26, 2020 15:22:18 GMT klawrencio79 and Carl LaFong like this

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Post by Rey Kahuka on Mar 26, 2020 15:22:18 GMT

Mar 26, 2020 14:24:31 GMT screamingtreefrogs said:

I don't think Road to Perdition gets enough credit.

The ending left me feeling like I got punched in the gut - but found myself questioning myself thinking, 'Wait - he really wasn't a good guy'.

Reminds me of how I felt when I was cheering/rooting for the Firefly family in The Devils Rejects when they were getting tortured - then thought to myself - 'Wait a minute - these people are supposed to be the villains'.

He was an anti-hero in Road To Perdition. He played a reluctant villain; he worked for a mobster because he needed work, not because he liked it. He wasn't a cruel man, like Rooney's son was. The final line in the film says it all, "When people ask me if Michael Sullivan was a good man, or if there was just no good in him at all, I always give the same answer. I just tell them, he was my father." In other words, if the son is a good man, perhaps you should judge the father as the man who raised him. Comparing him to Devils Rejects characters is about as far off base as you can get.

Easily my favorite Hanks movie, it's in my all-time top five films, period. It's laughable that his performance is ranked so low on this list while his voice work for stupid kids movies is ranked second. I easily would've thrown four or five films off this list in favor of Joe vs. The Volcano.