Watch The Walk For Free

SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

It is not only a funny movie, but it allows a great amount of joy for anyone who watches it.

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

The Walk was an inspirational story about a man from France who has put on many circus type acts in France for tightrope walking and comes to America in New York City to expand his talent by elaborating a scheme with his friends to hook various cables across the world trade center buildings for his biggest stunt yet. This involves walking while holding a giant stick. This is a true story from 1974. I liked it.

This was simply one of the very best films I have seen in years. Firstly, the camera work/special effects work is (literally) breath-taking. I only saw the film in ordinary TV mode when the film was tucked away in the afternoon schedule of a movie channel. Even so, many scenes (and particularly, of course, the final section of the film dealing with The Walk itself) have your palms sweating, your heart racing, the hairs on the back of your neck standing up etc. etc. all at once! I was not aware the film was made in 3D until I read the pages here, but seeing it in that format (or IMAX or even just on a big screen) must have been a truly awesome experience! Secondly, the direction is masterful and easily on a par with Hitchcock at his very best. Not a minute is wasted and you are dragged along from one scene to the next with the speed of an express train! This MUST be a "textbook film" for aspiring film makers/tutors in film academies? Thirdly, the acting in the main roles is very good. Ben Kingsley puts in a fine performance as the mentor/trainer/sponsor/father figure and the other leading characters are also very well played. Every award going, however, should have been given to the lead actor who displays a stunning mixture of humour, affection, endearment, fanaticism/madness, scheming and humanity which is absorbing and likewise helps you desperately wanting to know what happens next. Fourthly, and what makes this a truly great film, is what is NOT said. Form the very first, stunning shot of the Twin Towers you know precisely what happened to them on that fateful day in 2001 and yet the ONLY direct reference (and that in an "indirect" way!) to those events is made by the lead player in signing off at the very end and literally in the very last words spoken in the film and before the credits roll. These words had me on the verge of tears and made it clear that the real "message" of this film is not just about some guy walking between two high buildings but is really about what it is to be a human being; to pursue dreams, to aim at the impossible, to live life to the (very) fullest, to (as Nietzsche said) "live dangerously", even if it means standing (way) out from the crowd and being fully prepared to be asked "Why?" so many times, you lose count. What the film seems to me to be pointing out is how the events of 2001 were brought about by people motivated by the complete opposite: the desperate desire to die/annihilate themselves and to deny life to thousands of other people at the same time, to "close down" human desires for individualism and to work in favour of a monolithic, dead, uniform/totally conformist society in which NO challenging of set rules whatsoever by anyone is to be allowed. For these reasons (and as opposed to most of the films I have seen which explicitly address the events at Ground Zero and which, while obviously well-intentioned and sincere, have seemed leaden and 'flat' to me), I would choose this film as THE tribute to those who lost their lives in that appalling event, together with those who grieved and still grieve them. Film-making as pure art and enormously entertaining at the same time!

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.

i didn't know who philippe petit was before i watch this film,let me tell you something:he is an exceptionnal man. great movie with outstanding visual effects that will take your breath away,it's been a surprise for me for it didn't get as much hype as it truly deserves. philippe petit walks on wire for fun,philppe petit is a talented,arrogant little man who takes walking on wires seriously and sees himself as an artist,philippe petit meets the mentor papa Rudy,learns some,philppe petit has a dream,to walk on a high wire set between the two highest towers in the world,it looks impossible until it's done! unbelievable determination and energy,a very unique perspective,a very inspiring story,wonderfully brought on screen.