A long walk

The Way Back (2010)

Directed by Peter Weir this film is inspired by the book “The Long Walk” and stars Jim Sturgess, Ed Harris, Saoirse Ronan and Colin Farrell. During WW2 a group of prisoners in a Soviet Gulag undertake a mammoth trek to freedom in India.

The plot of this film is fairly simple as the protagonists struggle to survive in changing landscapes with meagre resources. At times realism and believability do fade away slightly but otherwise the action depicted is well grounded, never egregiously going beyond belief. While there are some great locations the film some how never really manages to capture the scale of the journey or offer much depth to the story so in the end this is a pretty average watch.

3/5