All Is Lost (2013)
After a collision with a shipping container at sea, a resourceful sailor finds himself, despite all efforts to the contrary, staring his mortality in the face.
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Directed By: J.C. Chandor
Written By: J.C. Chandor
Starring: Robert Redford
Country: USA
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Kojiless | 78 82nd |
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Robert Redford's...ON A BOAT. But with 100% less Cristal, 65% more jerry-rigging, and twice as much hull-breaching. What I learned from this movie: Don't fuck with water. Just another reason to stay here safe in my house built 10 feet below sea-level right behind these indestructible levies.
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PeaceAnarchy | 71 29th |
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I give it some credit, a film like this being compelling from start to finish is not an easy task. But it still feels very rote, this happened, then another thing happened, and then that thing, and then the end. There are moments when you can see what could have been, in Redford's performance and the shot selection there is insight and humanity. Yet most of the time there's just not enough to hold on to, it feels forced and the character is too much of a blank slate.
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caiman | 84 75th |
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For 106 minutes Redford is us, and we are him. Details of his life, his past or what kind of person he is would only tarnish this effect. That we know nothing about his character yet are still enthralled by his every move is a testament to his performance. It also says a great deal about just how involving a movie can be - without character development, a complex story or even dialog - so long as it's shown to us with rich, well-structured detail.
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KMcNeil | 6 56th |
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Redford jimmy-rigs the shit out of his puny little ship using an assortment of planks, glue, tarp, rope, chewing gum, bits of radio and other, even more MacGyver-esque stuff before finally coming to his senses and doing the only reasonable thing - shaking his fists at the uncaring sky.
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Moribunny | 83 93rd |
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Cannot but compare it to the more successful survival film of 2013, Gravity. All Is Lost is Gravity for adults. It doesn't need outer space. Just one character, and no flashbacks, daydreams or any voiceover - devices that plague most survival films. It is daunting but more meaningful to be unable to read Redford's mind, only his perfectly acted faces and his actions. No romanticism or pseudu-philosophy, just harsh realism. Tasteful soundtrack. One of the best movies I've ever seen of its kind.
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Nathan S | 2 21st |
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A high concept film that falls flat, stimulating no physical sensation, emotional response, or gut reaction. There are many moments in this film which stretch literal believability or otherwise just ring false. In the filmmaker's attempt at solemn austerity, Redford's character takes his disastrous ordeal in hardened silence. It is a performance as rote as the plot's formulaic motions, robbing the film of any sort of psychology to make things interesting.
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KasperL | 75 77th |
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Respect to Chandor and Redford. Well done.
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chadisdanger | 83 74th |
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Although I would never call this minimalist (Chandor's direction and Alex Ebert's score are too grandiose for that), this is a gripping survival story that succeeds because of its narrative simplicity and the sheer force of the filmmaking. Redford is a great choice for Our Man, not only drawing on his charisma to hold the screen for the duration (dialogue be damned) but also demonstrating a tremendous reserve of strength that makes his later vulnerability all the more affecting.
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Luna6ix | 76 57th |
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"All is Lost" accomplishes everything it set out to be. I felt a sense of dread and fear for Redford for the majority and was swept up in the story of survival at sea. at times, though, I couldn't help but feel that the lack of dialog worked against the story. How am I supposed to know how the character himself feels, or thinks if all he does is complete task after task trying to stay alive. The positive of Redford's stoic performance is that when he finally does snap, it felt ungodly cathartic.
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janus | 80 77th |
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Chandor's assuredly simple and communicative direction perfectly fits the kind of bare-bones storytelling that in a way makes the audience as well feel they're just hanging on by a thread. Admittedly the plot stretches credulity at points. I loved the ending however, and after a close read didn't find it ambiguous at all. BTW: what's with the crazy resemblance to Gravity? They should have called this "Buoyancy".
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graveyardtan | 85 71st |
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Tense, Jack Londonesque man vs. nature survival tale that's always engaging but never transcendent.
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| 1 | sellis | 55 20th |
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Things I appreciate: the reliance on action and behavior to tell a character's story, some of the visuals, Redford's subdued performance. Things I don't appreciate: nearly everything else. Someone took the idea "make your characters suffer" to an extreme. We should at least be able to seem them succeed before *spoiler* we fade to white a half second later.
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ABUNCHOFCATS | 94 93rd |
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I could watch Robert Redford be lost at sea forever. This is a great achievement considering the film is pretty much "Robert Redford tries to fix his boat." Little dialogue and no supporting cast this is a film about a man trying everything he can to repair his boat and get back home as conditions get worse and worse for him. Beautifully filmed.
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DavidBlast | 80 80th |
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"The sleeping United States wake up to find their economy torpedoed by Chinese CHILD LABOR. But the Asians have forgotten that it's only half time in America, and the gruff and tough spirit of its people will try to overcome everything, even as mighty Europe sail them by." Hi, my name is Chris Plante. I write for the Verge. Say, did you notice that there are no women in this movie? That makes it SUPER sexist, like the Gents at my work.
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Cinema_Asia | 75 71st |
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I don't know about anyone else but I could watch Robert Redford work on a boat and do survivalist stuff all day. This doesn't feel as gimmicky as it would initially appear. There are some generally tense moments and it's interesting to see how things gradually unravel in a disaster situation. The effects are fairly good and captures life in the middle of nowhere in the indian ocean. The panic and desperation creeping in shows Redford still has an impressive acting range.
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Roberta | 85 91st |
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A great movie with a remarkable almost wordless performance by Robert Redford. It deserves more recognition.
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MontyCircus | 40 37th |
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Boring. He lives? He dies? EIther way. Boring. There is nothing to watch. It's like "Cast Away" without any of the humour or drama or dialogue or character or...plot.
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Ressa | 97 91st |
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What a surprisingly exquisite piece this film is. If you forget the last couple of minutes, which are sort of cliché, then you have a highly intense experience made possible only through the simple, fundamental buildingblocks of filmmaking and executed with uncontaminated crafmanship. All Is Lost perfectly pictures one of the oldest of tales - the divided relationship between Man and the sea. Nothing more, nothing less. A purity rarely seen in film these days
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| 1 | xacviant | 85 73rd |
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Like GRAVITY, this is hampered by the hard-to-shake feeling that the protagonist's sufferings are a little arbitrary--or are all too obviously planned. But this is much more successful at achieving a feeling of simplicity and universality, giving us but one character--Our Man (Robert Redford)--and dispensing mostly with dialogue in favor of showing us his meticulous, confident reactions to his early troubles, and his subdued but definite desperation as his troubles mount. Technically impeccable.
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ribcage | 83 82nd |
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Like going on a theme park ride. I just got so caught up in it and the creative, close direction gives a sense of being there on the boat. Redford captures so much in his expressions that the lack of speech is hardly missed( and his yelling FUCK was so perfectly appropriate i couldn't help but laugh). A very good soundscape as well which of course was a must to pulling this stunt off.
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patman | 45 15th |
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A survival movie, ending like you always expect it would. A good performance by Redford, but isn't enough to make it the grand piece it wants to be. Could have done a better job on the lighting and CGI, but it has its moments.
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Miss Vienna | 80 31st |
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Der ewige Kampf des Menschen gegen die (Natur)Gewalten, gegen sich selbst mit seiner (inneren) Einsamkeit, seinen aufkommenden Zweifeln, seinen schleichendeN Hoffnungslosigkeiten, seinen würgenden (Todes)Ängsten. Ein wortkarger Survival-Film mit einem stark spielendem Robert Redford, dem man die Strapazen glaubhaft als Segler-Laie abnimmt. Aber auch ein Film, der Mut macht, sich nicht kampflos zu beugen, alles Mögliche zu versuchen und die Hoffnung leben zu lassen, so lange es denkbar ist! :-)
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| Average Percentile 53.94% from 1238 Ratings |  |