An OK film, but as a follow up to Slumdog and a Danny Boyle film, i would expect better

Rating: Null/10 (30 January 2011)

As a Danny Boyle fan, i walked into 127 Hours optimistic. It had received good reviews and boasted an interesting true-life story and amazing acting. But its hard to watch an entire film whilst you're waiting for one scene in particular - the arm sever.
I was led to believe by interviews with Boyle himself that the film would mainly focus on his life leading up to the rock incident; it did not. It had a promising, hyper-kinetic start, when Aron Ralston sets of to go biking in the Utah desert, where he meets two backpacking girls. Then, once they depart, he slips down into a crevice and has his arm crushed by a rock. From then on everybody in the cinema had one thing in their mind; the arm scene. Aron hesitates about plunging his pen-knife into his arm, setting off audience members awaiting his arms doom. what would have been necessary was more flashbacks, to take our minds off the arm, after all, who wants to see a 94 minute film for a 2 minute scene?
Danny Boyle tries to keep the energy flowing with multiple camera angles, an actually rather impressive sequence where Ralston interviews himself and mindless hallucinations. These sequences are often replayed time and time again, probably to fill up the time because the story line itself isn't actually all that interesting and cannot go very far. That's not to say that Ralston's story isn't impressive, its just not impressive enough to be in cinema, more like a TV movie.