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Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

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namashi_1 Fear of heights, anyone? I sure do. So watching 'The Walk' was a challenge for me of sorts. I mean, I know its all happening on the screen, but the vibe & the atmosphere is sure to make my heartbeat really fast. And oh boy, it did! And what also 'The Walk' did was deliver some solid entertainment in those 2 hours.'The Walk' Synopsis: In 1974, high-wire artist Philippe Petit recruits a team of people to help him realize his dream: to walk the immense void between the World Trade Center towers.Philippe Petit accomplished the near impossible & left the world startled. And his journey is brought on the screen with an excellent film. Legendary Oscar-Winning Director Robert Zemeckis directs 'The Walk' superbly. This biographical drama is consistently engaging & even though THE WALK doesn't happen until 90-minutes into the film, you're still engaged & never impatient to see the big moment. Zemeckis & Christopher Browne's Screenplay, which is based on book To Reach the Clouds by Philippe Petit himself, is arresting & nicely builds the story before the main big moment happens. And I must say, the entire sequence involving THE WALK, will take your breath away. Its something you need to experience. And now coming to the champ of 'The Walk' - Joseph Gordon-Levitt!. JGL is simply terrific as Philippe Petit. Right from a flawless french accent to his anxious body-language, JGL is a marvel. This is a career-best performance from an actor, who deserves so much more! Also in good form are Charlotte Le Bon as Petit's supportive girlfriend, James Badge Dale as one of Petit's team members & Sir Ben Kingsley as Petit's father figure, who teaches him the essence of life & art. On the whole, 'The Walk' is a must watch. Strongly Recommended!

a_chinn First off, I watched this in 2-D on a TV at home and I imagine this film was a much different of experience in IMAX 3-D. I saw a preview of this film in 3D on the big screen when I watched "Mad Max: Fury Road" and that two or three minutes was the best use of 3-D I'd ever seen. The story follows tight-rope walker Philippe Petit in 1974 planning to conduct an illegal tight walk rope between the newly constructed twin towers in NYC. The first half of the film was fairly mundane backstory material, but once Petit, played by the terrific Joseph Gordon-Levitt, begins to assembly his team and hatches a plan how he'll pull off this stunt, the movie becomes a 1960s Jules Dassin jewel heist film in the best sort of way. To compliment the Dassin vibe, there's a jazzy 1960s style score by Alan Silvestri, a colorful and quirky team, fun trial and error planning sequences, and all sorts of conning and dodging to infiltrate the building, which is amazingly fun. Then there's the eventual tightrope walk between the towers and even watching it on a TV was a dizzying and suspenseful experience. I can only imagine what this must have been like in IMAX 3-D. My main complaints about the film are the dull first act, which seemed like filler, and the film's over use of voice-over, which seemed a lazy way to deliver exposition. Still, director Robert Zemeckis delivers a knockout of a film and Gordon-Levitt continues to show himself as one of the best actors currently working today.

MovieChopper11 ... because it's, above all, a decent movie! And by "decent" don't you think even for a second I mean no action, tension and whatever else prevent a movie to be boring. This one has it all! The movie presents the real story of Phillipe Petit, that Petit that had the insane courage to cross the Twin Towers from NY on a wire. Is a biographical movie starting from the youth of Petit until the moment of crossing the towers. And it does that almost flawlessly. What I liked most was the burlesque air of the film, especially in the "French" part of it.Joseph Gordon-Levitt simply shines in this movie! You would swear he is born in France, speaking French perfectly and having such a natural French accent when speaking English. Going further, the entire band of lunatics that helped Petit to achieve his dream is portrayed so good, so colorful and with a very refined humor. Good casting! And so we get to the last part of the movie, where I find myself forgetting to breathe. The image is so spectacular that it cannot be described. You have to watch this movie and don't be surprised to feel a little dizzy, especially on the 3D version of the movie. Chapeau! Watch it. It worth the money and the time. It's not the best movie ever made but, from my part, it deserves a place on the shortlist of very good movies.

thejcowboy22 After watching this Acrophobia filled experience. I was left with my heart palpitating and my back was soaked from sweat. I wanted to turn away from the large screen but instead I amerced myself focused on our daredevil walker who kept on tormenting my senses. Over my many years of watching the cinema I've had a passion to watch alarming,unnerving, filled with shock value movies. I can't answer why I watch these films but I keep on searching for more of that genre which will probably keep me up for the rest of the night with covers over my head. This eager Frenchman who is about to attempt a coup as he calls it . Gathering his cast of characters to attempt the high wire walk between the World Trade Center towers. I was totally impressed with the work of our star Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Phillippe Petit. Now much older Joseph who I remember as the boy in the hit TV show Third Rock plays the part flawlessly with ease as the jaunty Frenchman who's goal is to walk some 200' across the twin towers buy August 1974. From working in a circus in Europe as a boy under the tutelage of his Father Papa Rudy played by the very distinguished Academy Award winning actor Ben Kingsley, Papa teaches young Phillipe how to tie knots and rope rigging which will comes in handy for his most outrageous profession. As the movie progresses as told by Phillippe as our narrator he meets his girl friend also a street performer Annie played by Charlotte Le Bon. Love the reality of a typical couple in New York always fighting as the goal of the walk get ever so close. Bumps in the road are the norm as accomplice after accomplice gather in one goal. Phillippe our pesky rope walker fills his obsession from that faithful day in the Dentist's chair when his vision/epiphany of walking across the twin towers was born. Other participants involved,Clement Sibony as Jean Louis, Cesar Domboy as Jeff. Ben Schwartz as Albert and Steve Valentine as Barry Greenhouse. I was overwhelmingly impressed with the cinematography mainly the visual effects as if you, the viewer where up on that rope some thousand feet in the air. The use of the clouds floating by at the beginning of the walk as you say to your self that's not so bad, and then a clearing of the city below with a crowd of ants, People watching up word in horror. Extremely sobering experience. My personal nature is to expedite a project and be done with it but not in this movie which frustrated me as our lovable flying Frenchman milks the opportunity for all the world to see.Bravo to Danusz Wolski for his direction of photography and to the hundreds of employees in the visual effects department. One thing I'll always remember is that Petit never walked alone. You the audience walked right alone with him.