Watch Wild For Free

Waste of time

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Reese impersonates and acts so well, I was transported to her character psyche. This point of view of the evolution of the woman worked very well for me. The flashbacks were very real as well. Cheryl Strayed was very involved personally and it makes this film even more real than the usual reenactment. The film wasn't too shy about the real story and more force to it. Great film about a great adventure that a real woman had the courage to take. Need more of them!

Oh yeah, I forgot....didn't pay attention when I chose to watch this....the warning sign was there all along...a film with Laura Dern in it. This tale, whether based on real story or not, is true 100% crap. Music choices were OK though but not featured enough to soothe the pain of having to sit through the disjointed dysfunction stuff. The main character Cheryl seems incapable of learning anything or making sense of anything that happens in her life. I presume she's a stream of consciousness kind of person who is so off in cloud cuckoo-land that practicalities are anathema. There's no entertainment or education to be found here. The Hornby treatment is perhaps novel but not enough to warrant this dire waste of your time.

An intriguing title and these 2hours, never a disappointment for me. With an exceptionally out of the box story-line,the film kept me wanting till the very end. Extremely moving and strong emotions throughout, where Cheryl, the protagonist, decides to take the walk to change her life for the better. The never- ending pain from her mother's death, unhealthy addictions and lifestyles, a heartbreak are only some of the odds she puts up a fight against on her road to self discovery. This journey through the wilderness of nature was as much of a learning experience for me as for Cheryl. Trying to deal with a personal tragedy myself, I could connect much easily through her array of thoughts and actions and the film only inspired me. However the only turn off was its such an abrupt ending. I wished The Pacific Crest Trail never ended.

When the credits rolled I asked myself: "Why have I just watched this film"? A young woman soul-searching after her mother's death ... OK, so Reese Witherspoon is very pretty, but it had to be more than that, and so it was. I think it helps that I backpacked myself - meeting a wide variety of eccentric characters in my journeys(but without the sex, unfortunately). I empathised with Cheryl; enjoyed the score and the cinematography. Plus, there was a bit of feel-good factor towards the end ... and what is wrong with that?