THE WALK:
A MASSIVE 3D WALK THAT WILL LEAVE
YOU BREATHLESS!
By Nico Beland
Movie Review: *** 1/2 out of 4
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Joseph
Gordon-Levitt on the walk of his life in The
Walk
Acclaimed director, Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future trilogy, Who
Framed Roger Rabbit, Flight)
joins forces with Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Inception,
The Dark Knight Rises, Looper) to bring the incredible true
story of high-wire artist, Philippe Petit and his life-changing journey to walk
across the towers of the World Trade Center to life in The Walk. Zemeckis’ fifth 3D movie and his first live-action 3D
movie if I’m not mistaking, and like other immersive 3D films, Avatar, Hugo, and Gravity, it’s
one of those 3D experiences tha t you have to see in 3D to believe, specifically
IMAX 3D.
Watching it on IMAX
3D makes it feel like you’re right there on the wire with Joseph
Gordon-Levitt, and it’s thrilling and at the same time completely insane. Also
from what I read about the film, it’s pretty faithful to the original book
written on the actual event that occurred in 1973.
Since childhood, French high-wire artist, Philippe Petit
(Levitt) dreams of becoming an amazing high-wire performer like his hero, Papa
Rudy (Ben Kingsley-Gandhi, Schindler’s List, Iron Man 3).
Unfortunately after several encounters with the police,
his dream of being recognized as an incredible wire performer is diminishing.
That is until he learns about a monumental building being constructed in New
York City, the World Trade Center; 110 stories tall and soon to become a
landmark of the city.
Upon reading about the construction of the World Trade
Center, Philippe may have found his destiny; he is going to attach his high
wire across the two towers of the World Trade Center and walk across it. So
with the aid of Papa Rudy, French street performer, Annie Allix (Charlotte Le
Bon-The Hundred-Foot Journey), and
crew members, Albert (Ben Schwartz-The
Other Guys, Turbo, This Is Where I Leave You) and Barry
Greenhouse (Steve Valentine-Mars Attacks,
Spider-Man 3, A Christmas Carol), Philippe will do everything he can to make it
to the World Trade Center, walk across the towers, and make history against all
costs.
Overall, The Walk
is quite a gripping 3D thrill ride, lots of extreme life or death situations,
plans and strategies so insane they may or may not work, and a strong
performance by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who delivers a pretty decent French accent
for his Philippe character. Besides Levitt, the rest of the cast does a great
job portraying their characters, especially Kingsley as Papa Rudy, he should
receive an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor or something like
that; this guy’s got talent.
And of course we have the 3D, and like I said before,
it’s not used as a gimmick to make money at the box office, it’s used to its
advantage and becomes possibly the next Avatar
or Gravity. If you’re watching it in IMAX 3D, it puts you right on the wire,
it’s both exciting and a bit nauseous, if you get motion sickness when watching
movies; this isn’t your flick.
When you’re just watching it as a movie, the movie is
decent, but when 3D is put into it, it’s really cool, one of Zemecki s’ b est 3D
movies since The Polar Express and Beowulf. The movie pretty much banks on
the usage of 3D, which isn’t a bad thing, it’s not used as a gimmick here, it
transforms the movie into an experience, a massive IMAX 3D experience of a “Walk” that needs to be seen to believe.
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