Sometimes a fantastic ending can pull a movie together.

“The Walk,” directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Charlotte Le Bon, is a boring, but inspirational biopic.

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A big problem this movie suffers from is a poor storytelling.

“The Walk” ends up a B plus movie, but a lot of components look like pieces of an F grade film.

The biggest mistake is in narration. The focal point of the movie has Levitt’s Philippe Petit talking about the events going on.

This ends up making everything feel unnatural and biased.

Instead of letting the “The Walk” show inspiration and beauty, a lot of the film revolves around Petit telling you how beautiful his way of life is. This ruins a great character point the movie tries to make.

The film begins to portray Petit as selfish. This type of characteristic would have made him more empathetic, but it stops and forces him to be an unfaltering individual.  

What saves this film is a piece of cinematic history. The actual tight rope walk is beautiful and a piece of art.

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The second Petit and his crew actually start setting up his daredevil act, you are captured in the moment of history. 

There is no way anyone would be able to experience the feeling Petit felt walking on that rope. But, in this moment of film, you are encountering the physical side, the fear and the exhilaration all by sitting in the theater.  

Stars: 4 out of 5.