What a terrible movie !
James Franco is such a superman – in fact he's so Awesome that I would have feel more empathy towards Superman. He's standing there for 5 days with his hand crushed. But he's experiencing no pain, no trauma, no fatigue – nothing. His legs are absolutely fine. Just a little perfunctory thirst – but don’t worry it’s not too serious. Why not, it’s entirely plausible to go 5 days on a quart of water in a bone dry desert without experiencing massive emergency-care level dehydration :-/
And then he chops his hand off like it's a walk in the park. Again – a little perfunctory yelling and grimacing to connect with us humans in the audience. And then – he literally gets up and goes for a walk in the park, as if nothing happened. After 5 days of thirst - he drinks a gallon of putrid water - and continues merrily on his way. Killer cramps are for losers, no?
Really Danny Boyle ? Maybe they could have brought some real human beings on as consultants to the movie. They would have told you how ridiculous the entire thing is.
If you want to watch a good survivor movie, I would rather recommend Touching the Void. Even though it seems to have been a TV-docu-drama – it is so much more compelling and empathetical. You can feel the pain and desperation of the guy. Or even Lost in the Wild – which is a beautiful movie.
Here, all that I see is a super-dude doing super-unbelievable-stuff. Not a human being. Not to mention all the over-wrought camera angles, meaningless flashbacks to his childhood, a highly contrived soliloquy and the gratuitous love-angle.
This trash after the badly-acted clichéd exotica nonsense that was Slumdog … is making me seriously reconsider why I liked Trainspotting. Oh yeah now I remember – coz there was shit load of profanity and a lot of scatological humor. How can you not like that? The problem begins when this moron goes out and make idiotic films and then seriously gets considered for (and wins) film awards.
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