The Walk makes you feel like a man on a wire.
The Walk is many things—a docudrama, a caper film, an action-adventure spectacular—but one thing it isn’t is redundant. When a Hollywood filmmaker like Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future, Flight, the execrable Forrest Gump) revisits historical events, like French wire-walker Philippe Petit’s stroll between the World Trade Center towers, that already appeared in a documentary (James Marsh’s Oscar-winning Man on Wire), it’s understandable to question why the veteran director couldn’t come up with an idea of his own. It’s just as understandable to expect him to smooth out a story told with more wrinkles elsewhere, except things aren’t quite that simple…