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The Walk attempts a tricky balancing act between thrilling visuals and fact-based drama -- and like its wire-walking protagonist, pulls it off with impressive élan.
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The Walk turns what is a relatively straightforward act - albeit a scarily placed one - into something stunning by restoring a sense of physicality to what's happening onscreen. Nov 10, 2015
The Walk turns what is a relatively straightforward act - albeit a scarily placed one - into something stunning by restoring a sense of physicality to what's happening onscreen.
Alison Willmore
His hallmark as a director is his passion for visual effects and his use of CGI and 3D is dazzling. Oct 14, 2015 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
His hallmark as a director is his passion for visual effects and his use of CGI and 3D is dazzling.
Sandra Hall
Zemeckis's failing is his inattention to every other detail, but The Walk undeniably exists for its climax: one stunt it does manage to pull off flawlessly. Oct 14, 2015 | Full Review…
Zemeckis's failing is his inattention to every other detail, but The Walk undeniably exists for its climax: one stunt it does manage to pull off flawlessly.
David Sims
It's two-thirds of a great film but the slow start and unremarkable first hour hold it back. Still, for those who buy into the precept that "good things are worth waiting for," The Walk unquestionably delivers. Oct 5, 2015 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
It's two-thirds of a great film but the slow start and unremarkable first hour hold it back. Still, for those who buy into the precept that "good things are worth waiting for," The Walk unquestionably delivers.
James Berardinelli
The walk itself is the film's central, and only, real achievement, but it's a doozy. Oct 2, 2015 | Rating: B- | Full Review…
The walk itself is the film's central, and only, real achievement, but it's a doozy.
Peter Rainer
For at least the duration of the 25-minute wire sequence, The Walk is a breathless, exhilarating moviegoing experience. It's just not much of a movie. Oct 2, 2015 | Full Review…
For at least the duration of the 25-minute wire sequence, The Walk is a breathless, exhilarating moviegoing experience. It's just not much of a movie.
Alex Pappademas
It's a high note to end on, but the road to get there is so unremarkable and stale that it makes it difficult to exalt the movie as a whole. Mar 1, 2019 | Rating: 6/10 | Full Review…
It's a high note to end on, but the road to get there is so unremarkable and stale that it makes it difficult to exalt the movie as a whole.
Bernard Boo
It is an astonishing sequence and a superb piece of filmmaking that celebrates a truly unique artist; a man who would not give up on his wildest dream. Feb 22, 2019 | Full Review…
It is an astonishing sequence and a superb piece of filmmaking that celebrates a truly unique artist; a man who would not give up on his wildest dream.
Paula Fleri-Soler
I found myself treating my seat as if it were the balancing rod, peering over to look below; my shoulders and feet tightened with each immaculately filmed step. This is why we go to the movies. Feb 7, 2019 | Full Review…
I found myself treating my seat as if it were the balancing rod, peering over to look below; my shoulders and feet tightened with each immaculately filmed step. This is why we go to the movies.
Rahul Desai
The greatest artistic, daredevil coup of the century is gracefully breathtaking and magnificently elegant. Jan 23, 2019 | Full Review…
The greatest artistic, daredevil coup of the century is gracefully breathtaking and magnificently elegant.
Nathalia Aryani
It's an amazing technical re-creation, putting the audience on the wire with him. If, like me, you are afraid of heights the action feels all too real at times. Jan 17, 2019 | Full Review…
It's an amazing technical re-creation, putting the audience on the wire with him. If, like me, you are afraid of heights the action feels all too real at times.
Micheal Compton
The first two thirds are well made and interesting enough on their own, but that climax easily ranks amongst the cinematic highlights of this year so far. Nov 1, 2018 | Rating: 9/10 | Full Review…
The first two thirds are well made and interesting enough on their own, but that climax easily ranks amongst the cinematic highlights of this year so far.
Jennifer Heaton
Most people have probably heard of Petite's walk between the Twin Towers, so the film doesn't shy away from having the protagonist narrate the entire story in a somewhat unexpectedly quirky way standing on the Statue of Liberty. Unfortunately even way before the big stunt, some of the surroundings seem oddly unreal and can easily be identified as special effect shots. Thankfully, no such thought crosses your mind during the dizzying finale. Sure, they may have added some complications here or there. but it's still wonderfully done. Overall maybe a bit too quirky at times, but the mind-blowing ending makes up for it.
Super Reviewer
Zemeckis displays his usual inventiveness with breathtaking visuals in 3D and stylish camera movements, offering us a nerve-wracking climax that should cause a heart attack on anyone afraid of heights, despite an unwelcome tendency towards corniness in the end.
Zemekis and Gordon Levitt endeavor to enliven the already substantive documentary Man On Wire (about Phillippe Petit's fabled wirewalk between the former Twin Towers) with the latest in modern tech cameras and a middling French accent. You'll be unimpressed until the central event occurs, after which you might need a place to sit down.
Robert Zemeckis' dazzling direction, cinematography and spectacle ultimately drives home this biopic. The Walk is an artful and cleverly planned story of its climatic sequence; paying homage to the artists and the structures it was executed upon. 4/5
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