127 Hours Movie Reviews
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Rajeev Masand | ibnlive.com
watching 127 Hours your mind repeatedly goes over the same thought: What if it was me there? What would I have done? Danny Boyle’s new film is based on a memoir by American engineer and mountaineer Aron Ralston. In 2003, without telling anyone of his destination, Ralston headed into the Utah desert to climb through the remote Blue John Canyon. Trapped in a small crevice with a heavy boulder pinning his arm to the canyon wall, he spent five daysRead full review4.0
Nikhat Kazmi | Times of India
After Slumdog Millionaire, Danny Boyle has almost become a homeboy. Everybody knows Danny. Everybody loves Danny. Everybody expects a lot from Danny. And Danny rarely disappoints. It's easy to understand why. Because, like Quentin Tarantino, Steven Soderberg and the rest of the mavericks, Danny Boyle has evolved a film narrative that is individualistic, eclectic and hard to replicate. Like the other indie folks, Danny too takes up an ordinary storyRead full review4.0
Raja Sen | rediff.com
An alarmingly energetic young man, goofy and irrepressible and one who needs to spend his life away from caffeine, guides two pretty girls through a canyon. Walking through tangerine earth and rock soaked in sun -- the sort of place Indiana Jones would rush through while looting horses from the Nazis -- he tells them about how the place, Utah's Blue John Canyon, was named after Butch Cassidy's cook. Yet despite invoking memories of cinematic imageryRead full review4.0
Shalini Langer | Indian Express
What strikes you the most about 127 Hours is not that James Franco, playing Aron Ralston, survived, but that you are never in any doubt he will manage it. Apart from the fact that the real Ralston lived to tell the story, every frame of 127 Hours is a portrait of bravery, strength and belief — and finally humility to acknowledge all that is more powerful than you. While a boulder crushing his hand is holding him down a 65-ft crevice, it is all this that makes RalstonRead full review3.5
Daniel Pinto | DNA India
127 hours is a gripping adaptation of the book ‘Between a Rock and a Hard Place’ by mountaineer Aron Ralston who was caught in a near-fatal situation while canyoning in 2003. After a loosened boulder crushed Ralston’s (Franco) lower right arm while he was hiking across Utah’s Blue John Canyon, a desolate place where no one knows he is, he endures the titular duration immersed in regret, despair and introspection before he decides to amputate his handRead full review3.5
Anupama Chopra | NDTV Movies
Let me begin with the confession that I have not seen 127 Hours in its entirety. I caught glimpses of the climax through my fingers, which were covering my eyes. But soon I got so nauseous that I had to run out of the theater. Why? Because 127 Hours ends with self-amputation. Aron Ralston, played impeccably by James Franco, who has had his right-arm pinned under a rock for 127 hours ends his imprisonment, by snapping his bone against the rockRead full review3.0
Bryan Durham | Mid-Day
Aron Ralston lives in the moment. And when he takes off on a trip to the middle of nowhere, he doesn't bother informing those he loves where to find him. He has 127 hours to regret that after getting pinned by a boulder in a canyon in the Utah desert. The time spent there helps him put his life into perspective. WHAT'S HOT: This is arguably one of Franco's best performances. In a role that was meant to get him accolades and laurels, he shines.Read full reviewNR
Mrigank Dhaniwala | Koimoi
127 Hours is an engaging story about a lone, desperate man's attempt to survive.Read full review