Something Out of Nothing

Rating: 7/10 (16 January 2014)

Considering how simple the story is, 127 Hours turns out to be a very good film.
I thought the build up was good, the acting mostly excellent, but the story itself was nothing more than a guy with his hand trapped under a boulder trying to work out the best way to keep sane and survive for as long as possible.
Will he survive, for how long and what would I do in this situation, were the sort of questions that I asked myself during the film. How frustrating to be trapped like that, such a vigorous man rendered completely useless through no fault of his own, or perhaps the unthinkable - death, just trapped there and dying, alone.
Danny Boyle is an extremely good film-maker who has a knack of dramatising pretty ordinary situations, but there's also something a bit cheesy about his camera work which I don't get along with. Just a minor criticism.
It's not the sort of film that'll have you wondering about for days or weeks afterwards, but it is a tremendous piece of entertainment for such a simple concept - the indignation of being a prisoner through no fault of your own.