One of the most exhilarating cinematic experiences this year, The Walk (2015), especially in the second half, takes you right to the top of the World Trade Center towers and lets you experience what it might have been like to be a tight rope walker at those heights.
Based on the 2008 academy award winning documentary (Man on Wire), The Wire tells the true story of Philippe Petit, a bold, tight rope walker from France who gets the idea to walk between the World Trade Center towers. The second half of the film plays out more like a heist Philippe and his friends work through the night to try and string a rope between the towers for his famous walk.
Sure, the French accents aren’t great in some places but the actors are committing 100% to the material so I didn’t care. The camera tricks are spectacular, Zemeckis is still in top form, and the CG is quite brilliant. Joseph Gordon-Levitt does a good job inhabiting the free-spirit nature of what Philippe is like. I wish more people were seeing this in theaters because I don’t think it will have the same effect on the small screen. A true cinema experience movie.