Lots of fun, this tale of tightrope walker Philippe Petit's 1974 daredevil journey between the twin towers of the World Trade Center boasts high production values and caused this vertiginous moviegoer's legs and feet to tingle every time the camera (or CGI computer screen) swooped down.
It's been called a docudrama and a sequel to the excellent documentary Man on Wire, since both credit Petit's memoir To Reach the Clouds. Whatever you call it, the talents of Joseph Gordon-Levitt (last blogged in The Wind Rises) as M. Petit and Charlotte Le Bon (first blogged in The 100-Foot Journey) and Ben Kingsley (most recently in Iron Man 3) as his closest partners in the crime, as well as director Robert Zemeckis (last blogged for Flight), who worked from a script by himself and Christopher Browne in his feature debut, shine as much as the special effects.
Composer Alan Silvestri (most recently in these pages for Flight) provides some dreamy French-inspired tunes and catchy jazz riffs in the soundtrack, which you can stream from this link. The other songs are listed here.
It's still playing in these parts (in standard, not 3D, as we saw it two and a half weeks ago) and is rated 85/85% on Rotten Tomatoes.
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