Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

The film was still a fun one that will make you laugh and have you leaving the theater feeling like you just stole something valuable and got away with it.

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

This was simply one of the very best films I have seen in years. Firstly, the camera work/special effects work is (literally) breath-taking. I only saw the film in ordinary TV mode when the film was tucked away in the afternoon schedule of a movie channel. Even so, many scenes (and particularly, of course, the final section of the film dealing with The Walk itself) have your palms sweating, your heart racing, the hairs on the back of your neck standing up etc. etc. all at once! I was not aware the film was made in 3D until I read the pages here, but seeing it in that format (or IMAX or even just on a big screen) must have been a truly awesome experience! Secondly, the direction is masterful and easily on a par with Hitchcock at his very best. Not a minute is wasted and you are dragged along from one scene to the next with the speed of an express train! This MUST be a "textbook film" for aspiring film makers/tutors in film academies? Thirdly, the acting in the main roles is very good. Ben Kingsley puts in a fine performance as the mentor/trainer/sponsor/father figure and the other leading characters are also very well played. Every award going, however, should have been given to the lead actor who displays a stunning mixture of humour, affection, endearment, fanaticism/madness, scheming and humanity which is absorbing and likewise helps you desperately wanting to know what happens next. Fourthly, and what makes this a truly great film, is what is NOT said. Form the very first, stunning shot of the Twin Towers you know precisely what happened to them on that fateful day in 2001 and yet the ONLY direct reference (and that in an "indirect" way!) to those events is made by the lead player in signing off at the very end and literally in the very last words spoken in the film and before the credits roll. These words had me on the verge of tears and made it clear that the real "message" of this film is not just about some guy walking between two high buildings but is really about what it is to be a human being; to pursue dreams, to aim at the impossible, to live life to the (very) fullest, to (as Nietzsche said) "live dangerously", even if it means standing (way) out from the crowd and being fully prepared to be asked "Why?" so many times, you lose count. What the film seems to me to be pointing out is how the events of 2001 were brought about by people motivated by the complete opposite: the desperate desire to die/annihilate themselves and to deny life to thousands of other people at the same time, to "close down" human desires for individualism and to work in favour of a monolithic, dead, uniform/totally conformist society in which NO challenging of set rules whatsoever by anyone is to be allowed. For these reasons (and as opposed to most of the films I have seen which explicitly address the events at Ground Zero and which, while obviously well-intentioned and sincere, have seemed leaden and 'flat' to me), I would choose this film as THE tribute to those who lost their lives in that appalling event, together with those who grieved and still grieve them. Film-making as pure art and enormously entertaining at the same time!

Joseph Gordon-Levitt is Phillipe Petit, the young man from France who walked across a wire between the twin towers of the World Trade Center when construction was almost finished in the early 1970s. Not only did he walk across, he walked across the yawning chasm four times. Well, 3.8 times. And he survived to become a celebrity for a period and earn a place in the book of world records.It's far from a stark drama. It's more of a caper movie along the lines of "Never on Sunday", a salubrious blend of comedy, irony, and suspense, a realization of one man's fantasy. Petit relates his tale directly into the camera from the torch atop the Statue of Liberty. He makes no jokes but he's amusing because he demonstrates his exasperation when something goes awry and he does it the way a child might do it. Quelle nuisance! What eece that veesitor doing op here at theece hour of the morning! The police officers who occupy the roofs of both towers while Petit is in the middle are equally amusing: "We got a couple of Frogs up here." I can understand how Petit could walk the wire between the two towers. He's good at it. It's much harder to understand how he managed to organize and pull off this stunt ("the coup") and how he managed to recruit his handful of assistants and supporters ("accomplices"). They're a varied lot, these accomplices. Half are French and half are American. Petit meets one of them for the first time in Paris, Jeff, an aspiring photographer and artist, who doesn't believe in the sanctity of art or the privileged position of the artist. "Hah, so you're an anarchist!" "Every artist is an anarchist to some extent." (That's the kind of conversational exchange you're far more likely to hear in Paris than in Dubuque.) I've been using the word "suspense" a little freely. "Tension" might be more apt. After all, we already know Petit pulled it off and lived to tell the tale. The guy is admirable, even though his obsession made him difficult to work with. And I suppose many artists want to do some Big Thing, some memorable (even if ephemeral) work of art. Gutson Borglum must have been flooded with self satisfaction when he finished the faces on Mount Rushmore. In the mid-1970s Christo built a fabric wall 25 miles long through Sonoma and Marin Counties in the San Francisco Bay area. About the same time someone tried to mount a huge rubber balloon of King Kong on top of the Empire State building but unlike Phillipe Petit, King Kong fell. Petit had the better central pattern generator.

Before watching this awesome movie, I was thinking why should I waste 2 hours if this movie is all about a guy crossing Twin towers in rope. After watching movie reviews decided i should for it, and this is one of the BEST movie I have seen in recent times. Movie is visually enriching. This movie is a emotional journey and you will get immersed into hero's role. It resembles movies like BigFish and Life of PI. Hats off to director for coming up with a engaging screenplay right from the film beginning.

This Zemeckis's movie contains thrill for those people has acrophobia (fear of height), I so shocked for those scenes.Joseph Gordon played so well in this movie, something I surprised that he spoke French and his tone voice had changed.But The Walk has no serious challenge for making doubt to ourselves that can he achieve his dream? this is a big problem I think.My last word is if you are enjoying adventure and drama movie don't miss this. It's worth to watch this once time.