"Road to Perdition" is a rock-solid gangster movie with a fair amount of suspense, intriguing characters and bizarre bank robberies, plus a heavy dose of father-and-son dynamics, which is anything but a staple of the gangster genre. Daddy is a hit man for the mob in a small Illinois town in 1931. While this one lacks the self-conscious hipness and satirical tone that appealed to moviegoers in "American Beauty," the joint DreamWorks-Fox production should generate considerable boxoffice change.

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