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The Walk
It is a journey that looks the most terrifying in the history of these young people and tells the true story of Philippe Petit, a group of potential recruits. It seems that everyone is trying to achieve the impossible through an illegal wiretap march in the vast void between the towers of the World Trade Center. Betit and his gang seem to have overcome more real challenges and difficulties under the guidance of his mentor in real life, Papa Roddy, and with the help of an unexpected group of international recruits.
26 October 1966, Bishopbriggs, Scotland, UK
16 January 1959
1 May 1978, New York City, New York, USA
21 December 1963, Montréal, Québec, Canada
2 January 1978, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
31 December 1943, Scarborough, Yorkshire, England, UK
14 July 1927, Chicago, Illinois, USA
April 18, 2017
Zemeckis -- relying both on Gordon-Levitt's energy and regular glimpses of Manhattan streets from more than 400 meters in the air -- manages to maintain a sense of tension. Even for those of us who know full well what happens.
August 04, 2016
The Walk's walk quickly becomes tasteless, making a mockery of a spectacular feat.
October 02, 2015
The walk itself is the film's central, and only, real achievement, but it's a doozy.
June 08, 2016
Gordon-Levitt captures the nuances of Petit's personality and, more importantly, taps into Petit's urgent need to go for a stroll some 400 meters above the ground.
April 18, 2017
Zemeckis's joy at staging the event is infectious and he takes the 3D IMAX cameras out there in mid air to show you the historic walk in all its dizzying, windy, high-altitude, and bloody footed insanity.
June 12, 2016
Just the mechanics of getting to the roof are fun -- filled with surprise allies and strokes of luck and last minute escapes.
November 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.
January 09, 2017
The Walk is a minor Zemeckis film.
October 02, 2015
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.
October 14, 2015
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.
March 28, 2017
The stunt is worth the wait. In a sense it's something we've been waiting for since September 12, 2001.
October 05, 2015
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.