The Way (2011)
Average Rating: 6.6/10
Reviews Counted: 94
Fresh: 77 | Rotten: 17
It may be a little too deliberately paced for more impatient viewers, but The Way is a worthy effort from writer/director Emilio Estevez, balancing heartfelt emotion with clear-eyed drama that resists cheap sentiment.
Average Rating: 6.3/10
Critic Reviews: 24
Fresh: 17 | Rotten: 7
It may be a little too deliberately paced for more impatient viewers, but The Way is a worthy effort from writer/director Emilio Estevez, balancing heartfelt emotion with clear-eyed drama that resists cheap sentiment.
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The Way is a powerful and inspirational story about family, friends, and the challenges we face while navigating this ever changing and complicated world. Martin Sheen plays Tom, an irascible American doctor who comes to St. Jean Pied de Port, France to collect the remains of his adult son (played by Emilio Estevez), killed in the Pyrenees in a storm while walking The Camino de Santiago, also known as The Way of Saint James. Rather than return home, Tom decides embark on the historical
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Cast
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Martin Sheen
Tom -
Emilio Estevez
Daniel -
Deborah Kara Unger
Sarah -
Yorick van Wageningen
Joost -
James Nesbitt
Jack -
Tcheky Karyo
Captain Henri -
Ángela Molina
Angelica -
Carlos Leal
Jean -
Simón Andreu
Don Santiago -
Eusebio Lazaro
El Ramón, El Ramón, El... -
Antonio Gil
Ishmael -
Spencer Garrett
Phil -
Romy Baskerville
Eunice -
Renee Estevez
Doreen -
David Alexanian
Roger -
William Holden
Cal -
Joe Torrenueva
Father Sandoval -
Matt Clark
Father Frank -
Stéphane Dausse
French Mortician -
Patxi Pérez
Waiter -
Anthony Von Seck
Sitar Playing Pilgrim -
José Luis Molina
Policeman #1 -
José Javier Ruiz
Policeman #2 -
Omar Muñoz
Gypsy Boy -
Milagros Alcalde Díez
El Molino Innkeeper -
Maximiano Benito Nebreda
El Molino Innkeeper -
Santi Prego
Santiago Office Clerk -
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All Critics (94) | Top Critics (24) | Fresh (77) | Rotten (17)
Okay, since the destination is preordained, what does the script do en route? Estevez's answer is two-fold: minor episodic adventures + incessantly repeated montages.
Top CriticEstevez takes full advantage of the beautiful mountain scenery, dramatic skies and ancient architecture to give us moments of quiet wonder.
Heartfelt if occasionally plodding.
With "The Way," writer-director Emilio Estevez has made a respectable failure.
It could have come out sentimental, but doesn't. The secret is the matter-of-factness.
"The Way" is overly earnest and clumsily directed by Emilio Estevez (the non-prodigal son of Sheen). Yet it is nonetheless effective in evoking empathy and introspection.
Emilio Estevez hasn't just been making wine lately. His film The Way, an inspirational drama, is a thoughtful travel pic worth seeing.
Easygoing, touching, and a nice vehicle for Martin Sheen
Martin Sheen shines in a beautifully made, unforced tale of spiritual reawakening and self-discovery that is as life-affirming as it is entertaining.
The Way is inspiring, cathartic, poetic, hopeful, and makes you want to throw on a backpack, start walking and find yourself.
The Way is a serene experience that prefers to take you by the hand rather than drag you by the foot.
The Way moves both the heart and the soul with its deeply spiritual exploration into grief and pilgrimage.
Estevez and Sheen combine in a touching father-son tale of grief and reconciliation.
It's not quite a road movie nor a real redemption story, nor a buddy movie; it's a diary where the journey is more important than the getting to the destination
Estevez has made a gentle and immensely likeable film that flows naturally, whose heart comes from the solid, grounding performance by his father Martin Sheen
The Way is a worthy effort and a sign that Estevez may yet emerge as an excellent filmmaker.
Between the sprightly soundtrack, the sensational on-location shoot, the anchoring performance by Sheen, and the methodological freedom permitted so that Avery's pilgrimage can naturally take its course, The Way immerses body and soul.
Smartly written and directed with a master filmmaker's eye, "The Way" is one of those films you'll want to see again and again.
The film does make a nice travelogue as Tom walks The Way and takes in the scenery. It's not a badly made film but it does aim for very low hanging sentimental fruit.
It's the kind of mushy pic you might be inspired to walk out on.
This is a quiet, warm film that some will find actually spiritual.
The Way almost immediately loses its way and stays lost.
This modest, heartfelt and utterly unpretentious cinematic spirit-quest is too sincere to mock, and yet somehow doesn't succumb to outright sentimentality.
Uplifting and sensitive without being sentimental, the mystic destination is worth the arduous trip.
Audience Reviews for The Way
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Full review at themoviefreakblog.com 11/30
Super Reviewer
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- Tom: You believe in miracles father?
- Father Frank: It's my job.
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- Jack: Now there's something you don't see everyday: a yank without an opinion!
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- Ishmael: Our children have the best and the worst of us.
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- Tom: You can keep the pack just give me the box!
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- Daniel: You don't choose a life Dad. You live one.
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- Tom: Daniel was a lot like you. Smart, confident, stubborn... pissed me off a lot.
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