All Is Lost - A new movie starring a very old star - When I saw the trailer, my first impression was: 1) Robert Redfords character, even at a fairly good looking 77, is way too old to be challenging the open ocean, solo, in a small sailboat. He should be on a Carnival cruise. 2) As scary as it looks, the fact that we se this story makes me expect that he will get back alive to tell the tale. In All is Lost, Redford plays a guy who is crossing the Indian Ocean in a small sailboat. His boat collides with a abandoned shipping container and has a big hole in its hull. Things go downhill from there, extreme weather, a sinking boat, a huge ocean, no communications, in short, this guy is f**ked and nobody will ever know what happened to him unless help arrives deus ex machina. This is almost a wordless movie since there is nobody to talk to. The isolation and fear from a huge storm and a damaged boat is visceral. It has a cast of one; there is NOBODY to help. Redford seems still vigorous in spite of his age, makes no attempt to look younger (aside from the obvious hair coloring, but he does still HAVE hair), is very convincing as a guy who is very resourceful, but facing a seemingly hopeless situation. Even though I thought I knew how it would come out, it was a nail biter. If you cant get into the latest Thor retread, its worth seeing. youtube/watch?v=Lk_R04LfUQU
Posted on: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 04:38:55 +0000