Film Review: The Way Back (2010): Peter Weir, Ed Harris
The Way Back (2010) Film Review, a movie directed by Peter Weir and starring Ed Harris, Jim Sturgess, Colin Farrell, and Saoirse Ronan.
The ever brilliant writer/director, Peter Weir, best known for Picnic at Hanging Rock and The Year of Living Dangerously, has delivered a visually stunning epic detailing the amazing and prolific story of several individuals journeying against insurmountable odds to flee the confines of a Siberian prison camp by traveling across 4,000 miles of baron winter and scorching desert to reach their ultimate freedom in India.
Not since Forrest Gump, the title character of the 1994 film of the same name, made his lovelorn run across America, have we seen such a long and arduous journey. However, by contrast to the rich character development and emotional tenacity of Forrest Gump, The Way Back falls significantly short, thus making this film based on Slavomir Rawicz’s controversial, but inspiring bestseller “The...
The ever brilliant writer/director, Peter Weir, best known for Picnic at Hanging Rock and The Year of Living Dangerously, has delivered a visually stunning epic detailing the amazing and prolific story of several individuals journeying against insurmountable odds to flee the confines of a Siberian prison camp by traveling across 4,000 miles of baron winter and scorching desert to reach their ultimate freedom in India.
Not since Forrest Gump, the title character of the 1994 film of the same name, made his lovelorn run across America, have we seen such a long and arduous journey. However, by contrast to the rich character development and emotional tenacity of Forrest Gump, The Way Back falls significantly short, thus making this film based on Slavomir Rawicz’s controversial, but inspiring bestseller “The...
- 5/13/2011
- by Cara Hall
- Film-Book
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