OT: The 25 best Tom Hanks films – ranked!

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.          

Most people don't know Road To Perdition was based on a graphic novel (with a different ending), so there's no comparison with an animated film clearly aimed at children.  As far as being more intellectually engaging than much of his filmography, that's a matter of personal taste.  

The old couple are irrelevant to the ending for me.  The 'happy ending' was the son had a chance to bond with his father, and see there was more to him than what he or other people thought based on his reputation.  The point was that his father didn't live to see him become the murderer he was.  The old couple were just there to put a bow on the theme that Michael Jr. would have a life different from his father, which is what Michael Sr. says is his motivation a few different times during the film.    

Fine... forget the comparison. It's still close minded and incorrect to discount those movies. Obviously everything is personal taste, but fucking Dragnet is better than all of the Toy Story movies? I enjoy a dumb comedy as much as the next guy, but it's way inferior.

I realize that it 'puts a bow' on that theme, but it's lazy and unearned. It's irrelevant except that it's there. If it's not relevant it shouldn't be included, and if that part of the story was excised the film would be better for it.

The kid standing on the beach with the voice over and the sound of the waves crashing continuing from the scene woth Hanks and Jude Law dying would have been perfect.

"It don't take much strength to pull a trigger"

Do you know what movie this lil baby was from folks?

A Bronx Tale when Lorenzo is trying to show/teach his son who the real man is - the working man - not some evil thug like Michael Sullivan (Tom Hanks) who kills people