The greatest movie ever made..!

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

Reese Witherspoon plays a real-life woman named Cheryl Strayed who is so lost in life in hurts. What works beautifully about Reese's performance and Jean-Marc Vallee's direction is that it intimately examines this woman without being subjective. While very similar to 2007's "Into the Wild," this film is more powerful and has a character that's easier to care for. Perhaps it's also due to Reese Witherspoon's dynamic and soul-punching performance and a more uplifting ending that's centered around the theme of human struggle. "Wild" works equally as strong as a narrative about a tortured soul and as a film with a message of reviving oneself, and the results are stunning.

Reese impersonates and acts so well, I was transported to her character psyche. This point of view of the evolution of the woman worked very well for me. The flashbacks were very real as well. Cheryl Strayed was very involved personally and it makes this film even more real than the usual reenactment. The film wasn't too shy about the real story and more force to it. Great film about a great adventure that a real woman had the courage to take. Need more of them!

I usually wouldn't rip a movie apart like I'm about to do because most movies I watch don't irritate, irk or bug this heck out of me. This one did, but maybe that's just a personal thing. I hated this movie! Even though Reese Witherspoon acted the part very well, the movie was pretty boring, very long and drawn out (it dragged) and it was an overly dramatic flick that would not end soon enough. Some of the editing was sub-par with abrupt cross-overs from her memories back to her present-time. Granted, I should have never watched a movie like this on the FXM channel, which is not high- definition and I had to deal with commercials as well. It was by far, the worst movie I've ever had the pleasure of wasting time on. The movie itself was not awful (including the plot), just the little pieces and parts that caused it to drag on. And to think the movie could have been even longer because of the journey she took on that trail. I'm not going to give it a low rating because of my awful experience watching it, but it's not going to get a 7 Star rating. I have to go see what others are saying about it....out of curiosity. It has its own good qualities, so don't take my review of it at too much face value. You really have to watch it and form your own opinion. I think watching it in High Definition would have made a much better experience. Maybe the poor editing issue I experienced was due to that alone.

This movie is about how a young woman who has suffered much in her brief life-mother dying of cancer, abusive alcoholic father, drug addiction, sex addition-discovers her true self and her will to live by undertaking an arduous three month long walking trip along l along Americas West coast.- the Pacific Crest trail The movie is watchable but is marred by too much cursing, graphic depictions of sex and bad language.