The first thing that I’d like to say about this movie is that it's different. This movie gets your attention like when you see a dog doing a back flip. Road to Perdition is in fact a movie of film noir. Film noir movies are very dark and just when you think something good is about to happen or if you think the movie will end in a happy your wrong. In the last scene of the movie they show the little boy Michael running around having fun on the beach with his dog. Mike the boy’s father, was standing in the big picture window looking out to him and then "BANG" just like that he gets shot in the back twice by McGuire. You would think after mike had just taken care of all the loose end people and went to a house near the beach and everything would be okay but that’s not the case. The movie had to end with mike dying and little Michael having no dad. Film noir movies also involve a lot of smoking. In Road to Perdition they are always smoking cigars; they smoke them like a steam engine gone crazy. Location is a key part in the movie. Whenever they killed someone it would always be in a room or at night in an alley. One thing that was happening over and over in this movie is the rain. Every time it would rain you knew that something bad was going to happen. Someone would get killed or something would happen where Mike and Michael would have to run for their lives. In these film noir movies the attire they wear is kind of funny, these gangsters are always wearing a fedora, long coat, and a nice suit that is black and they carry a gun in the waste or jacket pocket. The women always wore a hat and a dress. Mikes love for his son is really kind of incredible. He does not want his son to become what he is and kill people. Mike did whatever he could to make sure he didn’t end up like that. Even when mike got shot Michael came in and aimed a gun at McGuire but he couldn’t pull the trigger. In that moment when McGuire came closer mike took his gun and shot him. He has succeeded and his boy never even touched a gun again. These are a few good reasons on why this film is a film of noir. This movie is by far the greatest movie of film noir.