The Walk

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There’s one reason Robert Zemeckis wanted to make this film, and it’s not the first ninety minutes. Those first ninety minutes are good, solid storytelling, but it wasn’t Philippe Petit’s quest to become a tight rope walker that attracted the director to the material, it was the eponymous trek from one World Trade Center building to the other by the rooves over a wire.

Petit is a dreamer in the purest sense. He speaks to us throughout the entire movie in voiceover, given from the torch of the Sta...