Joseph Gordon-Levitt's Petit walks on the one-inch steel braided cable with the elegance of a dancer high on his abilities to perform. It is the best possible recreation of a stunt so absurdly dangerous that it crosses every line in the book and becomes a beautiful work of performance art. That is the only thing the film does better than the great 2008 documentary Man On Wire, for which this movie is based on. You can easily nitpick the flaws of Robert Zemeckis' The Walk - and there are plenty - but once all the phony French accents and abysmally lengthy setups have been dealt with, what we are left with is an extraordinary, unhurried 17-minute scene that uses 3D to its fullest potential, making you feel like you're right there walking the tightrope with Phillipe Petit.
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