Sunday 17 July 2016

Stealing space to perform

The Walk (2015)

Directed by Robert Zemeckis this film based on real events stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ben Kingsley and Charlotte Le Bon. A young French wire walker dreams of performing a wire walk between the Twin Towers in New York.

Essentially this is a heist film and it is pretty entertaining as it is a lot less serious than other films in that genre. My only criticism is that the protagonist is just a little bit pretentious and the film never considers the role of his ego in the events. Certainly if you have a healthy concern for falling the final wire walk sequence will put you on edge as the film is well directed.


3/5

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