The cult of Danny Boyle

Rating: 1/10 (28 May 2011)

With so much praise heaped on this it almost seems like heresy to criticise 127 hours. However Danny Boyles output is as erratic as any movie director and for some reason like a handful of other directors he can do no wrong in some peoples minds.
True story adaptations depicting triumph out of adversity require audience buy in like Alive or The Killing Fields as examples but 127 fails on every level. MTV style directing alert along with the use of split screen as a gimmick on top of which James Franco gives an awful performance . His character comes across as so irritating that after half an hour i A) wanted the film to end and B) couldn't care less about Franco's character (even though like most i knew what was coming) For all the publicity surrounding 127 hours it did not perform so well at the box office. You can also expect to see a lot of unsold dvds on offer nestling between other unsold turkeys like Skyline and London Boulevard when it is released for home entertainment.