Before I get into my opinions of this movie, let me first give you all a very brief overview of its plot. Basically, the son of an eye doctor has an accident and dies while walking the Camino de Santiago trail. His father (the aforementioned eye doctor), travels to France to collect his sons body, but eventually decides to carry his sons ashes to the end of the Camino de Santiago. Throughout his journey on the trail, he meets other travelers who are all walking the trail for different reasons, and he undergoes a lot of personal growth and realizes what life is really all about. This is of course a very brief summation of what occurs in the movie, but hopefully any of you who are unfamiliar with the plot of The Way can now understand the general gist of it.
My overall impression of this movie was a good one, but not a great one. Overall, I really liked the plot of The Way, and I think the overall message that it's trying to get across to viewers is a really inspirational one that's lacking from a lot of movies today. However, all of this was not enough to launch it to the next level for me. Many of you know the feeling after watching a great movie; you walk out of the theater just thinking about what you watched, maybe blown away by some aspect of it, and you just cannot stop thinking about the movie for several days afterwards. This was not one of those movies for me. As soon as the end credits began to roll at the end of The Way, that was it for me. I don't want to make this movie out to sound bad, because it wasn't. It just lacked that magic spark that some movies have, and frankly there were certain parts of this movie that seemed a little slow and, for lack of a better word, bored me a bit.
So overall, I would probably not recommend this movie. If it's been on your "to watch" list for a while, maybe it's worth giving a chance. You very well may like it a lot more than I did. There is a lot of potential behind this film, but it just lacked the energy and uniqueness that makes a movie great.
Oh, and a total side note, but this movie has a really good song by Coldplay in it, called "Lost." It may be worth listening to if you're a Coldplay fan.
Rating: PG-13
My overall impression of this movie was a good one, but not a great one. Overall, I really liked the plot of The Way, and I think the overall message that it's trying to get across to viewers is a really inspirational one that's lacking from a lot of movies today. However, all of this was not enough to launch it to the next level for me. Many of you know the feeling after watching a great movie; you walk out of the theater just thinking about what you watched, maybe blown away by some aspect of it, and you just cannot stop thinking about the movie for several days afterwards. This was not one of those movies for me. As soon as the end credits began to roll at the end of The Way, that was it for me. I don't want to make this movie out to sound bad, because it wasn't. It just lacked that magic spark that some movies have, and frankly there were certain parts of this movie that seemed a little slow and, for lack of a better word, bored me a bit.
So overall, I would probably not recommend this movie. If it's been on your "to watch" list for a while, maybe it's worth giving a chance. You very well may like it a lot more than I did. There is a lot of potential behind this film, but it just lacked the energy and uniqueness that makes a movie great.
Oh, and a total side note, but this movie has a really good song by Coldplay in it, called "Lost." It may be worth listening to if you're a Coldplay fan.
Rating: PG-13
Genre: Drama
Run Time: 121 minutes
Release Date: October 7, 2011
My Rating: ★★☆☆☆
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