Review of 127 Hours (2010) by Brandon W — 10 Feb 2016

Danny Boyle's 127 Hours is a magnificent movie that I kept watching it and still love it. The movie is not always about Aaron Ralston being stuck with a rock as it shows the event before it, and his past from what his love life is, and the mistakes he made that he regrets.

From what I heard from Aron Ralston himself, he said that the movie is factually accurate, except for the scene with him taking two girls to the secret watering hole as he actually just showed them how to climb the rocks, which I was still fine with Danny Boyle changing that fact we the scene was still pretty good.

The writing by Danny Boyle and Simon Beaufoy is very well written that I'm glad that they make the film as interesting as they can with funny moments also. James Franco gives his best performance in my opinion and I'm surprised that he didn't get an Oscar for Best Actor.

The move gives a lot of information about the main character that made me feel sorry for him and would want him to succeed. When it gets to the arm amputation scene, it's one of the moments that would take some viewers away form it which makes sense as I kept cringing from it, but it doesn't respect the gore and is probably the most realistic thing you can get from a person cutting an arm off.

The soundtrack by A.R Rahman is really great and it really makes the film more intense or more heartfelt. The camerawork is really good as it gets really close to James Franco's character which gives the films feel of claustrophobia, and the direction by Danny Boyle is great as usual.

127 Hours is a fantastic survival movie that really gives a perfect example of how a person wants to get out of that situation but also keeps calm about it, to just desperation of surviving.