Good Adventure Film

Rating: 8/10 (19 January 2013)

A tale of survival at sea is handled with beautiful imagery through the eye of Ang Lee. Pi is a young man raised in a family who own a zoo in India. They are forced to sell it and head for Canada and a new life. The ship encounters a vicious storm and sinks. Pi manages to crawl on to a lifeboat and is followed by a Bengal tiger. The story is a bit far fetched but it makes for a roller coaster ride of a movie. The scenery is spectacular and Suraj Sharma is up to the task as Pi, mostly playing opposite the majestic tiger. It flashes back and forth between Pi as the adult telling the story to a writer and the teenager on the boat and I was not thrilled with the ending but overall, even though a bit overlong at two hours and seven minutes, it is one of the better films of 2012 and worthy of an 8/10.