127 Hours (2010)

Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

Touches You

Fantastic!

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

When James Franco is not busy doing spectacular comedies with his buddy Seth Rogen he chooses to deal with interesting projects. And this movie is one of them. 127 hours is a story of survival and the desire to live. But it's also a movie based on real events and as we know this is a lot of times really risky to adapt to the big screen. Fortunately the director of the movie is long time favorite Danny Boyle. Trainspotting's talented is aware of the risks and he makes all the right moves making the film enjoyable. He makes the movie short and straight to the point with the right amount of thrills and a little bit of light hearted comedy in the start. But the most important aspect of the movie it's the one man performance from the main star. James Franco for me is a mediocre actor. But he is a smart guy. He chooses his steps really carefully and most of the times the results are spot on. This happens also in "127 hours". He manages to lift the whole movie in his shoulders and captivates you with his entire presence for 90 minutes. I'm not really font of biopic movies myself but I have to say this film made me have a really good time. It has its thrills and is a fine tribute to human resolve. It's not of course Danny Boyle's best movie but is a nice movie overall and it will make you stay in your seat for it's entire time.

Movie Review: "127 Hours" (2010)Director Danny Boyle had been creating such an fascination with the real-life event book "Beetween a Rock and a Hard Place" by Aron Ralston that he was able to reunite the majority of key figures from the all-around accepted 2008 fast-track success production of "Slumdog Millionaire", including cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle and score composer A.R. Rahman, who eventually bring this stand-alone picture of an young adult taking his turn on the desert-wild Utah, USA with mountain-bike and backpack, meeting stranger females, having a time of their lives in a water-filled cave-pool, breaking-up within hours before the character of Aron, fulminating portrayal by extreme-tastes-indulging actor James Franco, who is able to break-out from his doom-to-cursed Mega-Blockbuster beginnings of being-pinned to a rich-kid-character of Harry Osborne in "Spider-Man" (2002) directed by Sam Raimi.Actresses Kate Mara and Amber Tamblyn perfom in the parts of strange-loving desert-tracking female friends "Megan & Kristi" who are likeable-sketched out feminine girly characters in an adapted screenplay by director and screenwriter Simon Beaufoy, who are able to condense "The Aron Ralston Story" into a gripping 85-minutes-editorial by editor Jon Harris, who then again saves this fairly independent feature distributed by Fox Searchlight to high-end hyping critical approvals at North American Festivals in September 2010, when Danny Boyle can deliver a knock-out, yet with further timidly-received directorial vision, comparing to fellow director Tom Hooper's take of Academy-Award winning succession with "Les Misérables" (2012), when relying completely on his leading actor's performance from video-log to extreme-tight-360-close-ups of bleached-out digital aesthetics in nevertheless editorial-wise exciting arrange angles of cinematography, when the all-talked-about arm-amputation-scene of two and a half minutes can only be enjoyed once to full-blown thriller excitements, before tears fill the eyes of spectre that an historical moment of motion picture extravaganza is gone, never to return in second attempts of revisit.© 2018 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

Spoiler warningWith a lot of good reviews on this site and Metacritic you would surely expect a really good film. I thought i would love this since i really liked Castaway and other Boyle's films like Slumdog Millionaire (which i gave a 10/10)Never heard of Aron Ralston before but the ending is predictable, i knew what will happen from the moment he picked up the knife. They present Aron Ralston to an unlikable character at least to me.As positives the struggles of Aron are presented realistically (a bit exaggerated obviously) The best scenes are the hallucination scenes like the one where it shows his route to his car with a bottle of Gatorade.

This movie is rather successful, at least when you see the basic scenario, making a whole movie about a guy stuck for 127 hours is not easy. But this one is a good movie, we are bored at times but nothing serious. However this film remains a film without a goal and to make a film of an hour and a half on a true story which can be summarized in a few lines is very delicate, too much delicate and it's why it's difficult for this movie to have more than 6/10, it just remains "not bad".