Directed by Sam Mendes, Road to Perdition is a magnificent American dramatic movie based on Max Allan Collins’s graphic novel of the same name. The film was released in 2002 starring such amazing highly professional actors as Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, Jude Law, and Daniel Craig. Set in Illinois during the era of the Great Depression, the film tells a tragic story of Michael Sullivan, a hit-man in the gangsters’ clan, and his son who seeks revenge against criminals, John Rooney and his clan in particular, who murdered their family. The movie concerns various themes, such as revenge, faith, inescapable predetermination, family relations, and so on, which hampers to define the exact genre of the film. Thus, the film embraces different techniques and features of the following genres: revenge movie, gangster film, film noir, coming-of-age story, and family drama. Perfect actors’ performance, brilliant renowned cast, amazing director’s work, an abundance of various film techniques makes Road to Perdition a profound, thought-provoking, moving, and intense film for anyone fascinated by tense gangster stories and emotional family dramas. According to many critics, the film presents a kind of allusion to Greek tragedy where the fates of the heroes were long before predetermined by gods and they only followed the paths of ill fate destined to them unable to make the slightest change. From the point of view of Roger Ebert, the impact of Greek tragedy is explicitly reflected in the film: “the characters seem to be performing actions already long since inscribed in the books of their lives” (Ebert). Besides, the film follows the traditions of gangster films set in Godfather highlighting different aspects of father and son relations, dwelling on ambiguous situations in family clans’ wars. Road to Perdition starts with the assassin of almost the whole clan of Michael Sullivan, which instills the feeling of revenge into the survivors’ minds, Michael Sullivan, father, and his son, and drives them further to punish the murderers of their family. The theme of revenge directly pertains to the genre of the revenge movie. However, this movie differs from the classic films of this genre; in contrast to Godfather, the characters in Road to Perdition enjoy no free will and are guided by the unavoidable mechanism where the consequences are predictable (Ebert). Since the story focuses on the gangster’s clan it can be assumed that this is a gangster movie. However, the film is set at the beginning of 20 th century America suffering from the Great Depression, but it can’t be regarded as only a period film. On the whole, Mendes succeeds in avoiding clichés and interlacing stylistic devices from every genre creating a film with expressive imagery that supports and enhances the main ideas and themes. The plot of the film is not overcomplicated and easy to understand, which is never should be considered a disadvantage. The main objective of the film is to bring the main themes to the spectator not through the dialogues, though they are not to be underrated, but through filming effects and techniques, brilliant photography, and exquisite imagery, through appealing to the emotional perception of the spectator. Since the film deals with gangsters, it inevitably abounds in appalling crime scenes, death, murder, and the like. The movie is completely devoid of love scenes though tender feelings of father Michael Sullivan, who