Review of The Way (2010) by Mike M — 11 Oct 2011
Has an air of familiarity about it, if you'll pardon the pun: Avery is the non-porous rock whose forbidding exterior comes to be eroded by his fellow travellers. If there's anything remotely cinematic in the handling, it resides in how Estevez observes this slow, gradual process, and gets his dad to smile again, without resorting to short cuts or sentimentality.
.. In the end, it's a record of a long ramble, for cast and crew, as well as for these characters, the endless shots of backpacks trudging up hill and down dale giving the whole the air of a project Estevez and Sheen undertook to earn themselves an Outward Bound certificate.
Yet it wears its (spiritual) themes lightly and with good humour - and the sheer, unapologetic fogeyness of the pursuit offers you plenty of time to enjoy the scenery en route.
This review of The Way (2010) was written by Mike M on 11 Oct 2011.
The Way has generally received positive reviews.
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