The Walk is the true story of a young dreamer, Philippe Petit, and a band of unlikely recruits who together achieve the impossible: an illegal wire walk in the immense void between the World Trade Center towers. Guided by his real-life mentor, Papa Rudy, and aided by an unlikely band of international recruits, Petit and his gang overcome long odds, betrayals, dissension and countless close calls to conceive and execute their mad plan.
20 September 1972, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
12 April 1964, Montréal, Québec, Canada
10 March 1990, France
21 December 1963, Montréal, Québec, Canada
24 November 1967, Montréal, Québec, Canada
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April 18, 2017
Zemeckis's joy at staging the event is infectious and he takes the 3D IMAX cameras out there in mid air to show you the historic walk in all its dizzying, windy, high-altitude, and bloody footed insanity.
October 14, 2015
Zemeckis's failing is his inattention to every other detail, but The Walk undeniably exists for its climax: one stunt it does manage to pull off flawlessly.
October 05, 2015
It's two-thirds of a great film but the slow start and unremarkable first hour hold it back. Still, for those who buy into the precept that "good things are worth waiting for," The Walk unquestionably delivers.
March 28, 2017
The stunt is worth the wait. In a sense it's something we've been waiting for since September 12, 2001.
October 02, 2015
The walk itself is the film's central, and only, real achievement, but it's a doozy.
August 04, 2016
The Walk's walk quickly becomes tasteless, making a mockery of a spectacular feat.
June 12, 2016
Just the mechanics of getting to the roof are fun -- filled with surprise allies and strokes of luck and last minute escapes.
January 09, 2017
The Walk is a minor Zemeckis film.
April 18, 2017
Zemeckis -- relying both on Gordon-Levitt's energy and regular glimpses of Manhattan streets from more than 400 meters in the air -- manages to maintain a sense of tension. Even for those of us who know full well what happens.
June 08, 2016
Gordon-Levitt captures the nuances of Petit's personality and, more importantly, taps into Petit's urgent need to go for a stroll some 400 meters above the ground.
November 10, 2015
The Walk turns what is a relatively straightforward act - albeit a scarily placed one - into something stunning by restoring a sense of physicality to what's happening onscreen.
October 02, 2015
For at least the duration of the 25-minute wire sequence, The Walk is a breathless, exhilarating moviegoing experience. It's just not much of a movie.
