Review of The Walk

The best thing in this movie doesn't belong to it: the story itself. That's half way for having a good movie. And if it is true that the technology nowadays allows us a vivid and immersive experience (thanks IMAX 3D), and that together with the good acting by Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Ben Kingsley they bring this film to a 7, it still falls way too short of what such a story can bring, as it was brilliantly done at Man on Wire. Mind you, it is still a good reason to go to the cinema, but if you can only pick one film about Philippe Petit, go for Man on Wire. That one is a hell of a piece of storytelling!