El-Dod The movie is superb. Joseph did a spectacular job in it his look and his accent in French and English as the French spoke it , He really should have been nominated for a serious award as the globes or maybe even the Oscars. The movie is very underrated , the music and editing are superb only Zemeckis had some scenes that you felt the effect added on it and was just dull as most of the movies in the end of the year. The visual effects was average but it didn't have to be perfect cause it could present the idea and make you feel the intense and excited and on the edge of your seat with lots of sweats too . The movie too had the very quick rhythm that some less scenes when it took long to explain it you might feel bored but not for sure about that and also it's style was unique in it's preview and also the movie didn't make fun of the audience's smart and criticism which I very respect but it was too quick that you feel they might hide something wrong and you couldn't notice it and the ending scene which was amazing but went a little bit awesome exaggerated! By far one of Joseph's best performances and one of my favourite movies. 8.5/10

MJB784 The Walk was an inspirational story about a man from France who has put on many circus type acts in France for tightrope walking and comes to America in New York City to expand his talent by elaborating a scheme with his friends to hook various cables across the world trade center buildings for his biggest stunt yet. This involves walking while holding a giant stick. This is a true story from 1974. I liked it.

christo-skelton This movie really moved me as I can't stand heights and my heart rate went up hugely as I watched the walk as it was so realistic. Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who speaks French fluently, was very good. The direction and cinematography were brilliant.

Robert J. Maxwell 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.