Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Movie Review: 127 Hours

Had heard a lot about this Danny Boyle movie - and had missed it in the theatres, so got a BluRay last night.

127 Hours is the story of an adventurous Aron Ralston (James Franco) who has a bad fall into a crevice, finds his hand crushed behind a fallen boulder, trapping him inside the crevice for 127 hours. It's a story of how he uses his spirit and humour, the strength of memories and dreams, to survive, and finally, gathers the strength to cut his own arm and escape certain death.

The movie has potential with some great visuals, and an interesting sound track by our own AR Rahman, but when more than an hour goes by with no action and a lot of dreaming and hallucination, you tend to get bored... the movie then suddenly turns really gory with the arm cutting scene, and is not for the weak hearted.

Apparently a real story.

Not too bad, but not what I expected it to be.

1 comment:

NJ said...

Really loved this movie... no doubt danny boyle is talented.. and like some hat-ke movies this movie falls in the same category where people should watch it with patience and keen observation... awesome movie.. full marks to it from my side...

and sound tracks by Rahman are also wonderful...Especially 'liberations' ......