An Exercise In Nonsense

A different way of telling a story

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

I think the cover and summary will give you a feel for what you are going to watch, and it delivers what you probably want. Overall this is a pleasant film that is well written, has endearing characters and will leave you feeling better for watching it. That makes for a film that plenty of people can watch and enjoy. Well done everyone

No outlandish special effects...just a heartwarming story about a quirky young man who faces his demons in a very roundabout way. The cinematography is excellent, as are the performances by Andrew West (Walter), Virginia Madsen, William H. Macy, Justin Kirk, Jim Gaffigan, Neve Campbell, Leven Rambin, Peter Facinelli, and Milo Ventimiglia. If all of these talented actors got on board with this independent film, it should tell you something about its entertainment quality. Get on board, too--watch WALTER and see for yourself. This movie definitely deserves a high review rating.If you've lived past high school, you can relate to Walter. We've all felt left out. We've all focused on something quirky to get us through our days. We've all experienced having a crush on someone who seems out of our range. We've all experienced loss. And most of us have had a time where we turned our life around. WALTER takes you through all of these experiences and leaves the viewer with a feeling of hope and promise.

The story and it's major twist seemed very predictable even from the very start. But at the very least it provided a neat enough character background and relationships between the characters. But the consequent development on the story proves to be so very lacking since the movie put so much weight and screen time to those characters who are essentially non significant. The trick worked well in adding duration time for the movie to become a full feature movie. But it did the story no good and instead made it quite boring. The acting overall is just a decent acting work. William H. Macy did quite a nice job as the shrink. But as his character didn't really have any significance to the main conflict of the story, his performance doesn't really seem to matter.

I just watched "Walter". It was one of those movies that takes you on a journey. At first I thought it would be a silly comedy, something along the lines of "Ghost Town'or maybe a romcom similar to "Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist", or maybe even something quirky like "Drowning Monah". At one point, I even thought it was going to take a "Sixth Sense" turn, but by the end I was pleasantly surprised to see, it went down the path of Eat/Pray/Love. At least three times I thought "I know where this is going now" - when in fact, I did not. Truly an excellent movie. I loved each of the characters (even the minor ones), all of whom with which, I could easily identify. Macy was the icing on the cake. I urge everyone to see it as it will be an award winner I'm sure.