This rock has been waiting for me....

Rating: 7/10 (5 March 2011)

Aron Ralston believes he's invincible and can do it all alone while on his outdoor adventures. He considers the great outdoors his second home.
On Saturday, April 26, 2003, Aron has gone for an adventure trek alone through the generally secluded Blue John Canyon, and like he has done on many of his other treks, he has not told anyone where he is going.
But on this day, he and a small boulder fall down a crevice, he landing near the bottom of the crevice virtually unharmed, but with his right hand wedged between the boulder and the crevice wall.
He has access to his gear and his small supply of rations as he tries to move the boulder or chip away at it so that he can get his wedged hand free.
As either task seems impossible, he hopes for someone to rescue him.....
Boyle has made another stylish movie, with some very good camera-work, and has also gotten a fantastic performance from Franco.
It's beautiful to watch, and the slow decline of Franco and him hitting cabin fever is quite unsettling. Even though most will know the outcome, there is still a faint sense of dread though out the film. His hallucinations are very real and even after he has done his surgery and is walking out of the canyon, you feel that he may be hallucinating and he is still there. Every time he picks something up from the rock, There is a sense of desperation, and you are praying that he doesn't drop it.
This is expert film making from the Oscar winner.
The much talked about surgery scene isn't really bad, and last more than a few minutes, the camera angles keeping us from the actual arm, but to the painful look on Franco.
It's a good movie, very uplifting, and very psychedelic.