Directed By: Danny Boyle
Starring: James Franco, Kate Mara, Amber Tamblyn, Kate Burton, & Treat Williams
MPAA Rating: R
My Rating: 10 / 10
Though much attention has been given to David Fincher and his ability to make techno-babble fascinating in The Social Network, it should be said that Danny Boyle deserves praise as well, as he expertly tackles a challenge just as daunting as the one Fincher faced. In 127 Hours, aside from a few minutes at the beginning, the narrative follows a man stuck in one place, unable to move, and with no one to communicate with. Suddenly, everything that usually propels a film...relationships, dialog between characters, movement, and more...are completely cut off. It is just us and the film's star, James Franco. What could (and, in all reality, should) have been a dull-as-dirt gimmick stretched out to ninety minutes is, thanks to Boyle and Franco, an electric and genuinely masterful piece of cinema, a film that is incomparable to anything else in theaters right now and that is certainly one of 2010's best offerings.
