Don't listen to the negative reviews

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

The true story of the guy who was trapped in between a rock and a hard place (literally). It's now my choice for the best movie of 2010. Very realistic and frightening. Truly powerful film making that really makes you happy to be alive and realize that anything is possible when it comes to survival.

Movie Review: "127 Hours" (2010)Director Danny Boyle had been creating such an fascination with the real-life event book "Beetween a Rock and a Hard Place" by Aron Ralston that he was able to reunite the majority of key figures from the all-around accepted 2008 fast-track success production of "Slumdog Millionaire", including cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle and score composer A.R. Rahman, who eventually bring this stand-alone picture of an young adult taking his turn on the desert-wild Utah, USA with mountain-bike and backpack, meeting stranger females, having a time of their lives in a water-filled cave-pool, breaking-up within hours before the character of Aron, fulminating portrayal by extreme-tastes-indulging actor James Franco, who is able to break-out from his doom-to-cursed Mega-Blockbuster beginnings of being-pinned to a rich-kid-character of Harry Osborne in "Spider-Man" (2002) directed by Sam Raimi.Actresses Kate Mara and Amber Tamblyn perfom in the parts of strange-loving desert-tracking female friends "Megan & Kristi" who are likeable-sketched out feminine girly characters in an adapted screenplay by director and screenwriter Simon Beaufoy, who are able to condense "The Aron Ralston Story" into a gripping 85-minutes-editorial by editor Jon Harris, who then again saves this fairly independent feature distributed by Fox Searchlight to high-end hyping critical approvals at North American Festivals in September 2010, when Danny Boyle can deliver a knock-out, yet with further timidly-received directorial vision, comparing to fellow director Tom Hooper's take of Academy-Award winning succession with "Les Misérables" (2012), when relying completely on his leading actor's performance from video-log to extreme-tight-360-close-ups of bleached-out digital aesthetics in nevertheless editorial-wise exciting arrange angles of cinematography, when the all-talked-about arm-amputation-scene of two and a half minutes can only be enjoyed once to full-blown thriller excitements, before tears fill the eyes of spectre that an historical moment of motion picture extravaganza is gone, never to return in second attempts of revisit.© 2018 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

It's not because I'm a biopic or Danny Boyle's fan but for me; I couldn't agree anymore that it was a perfect depiction of what happened at canyon. Initially when film progressed, great show of all possible angles of cinematography took you somewhere in it and you can't get out of it till the end. How else can you show the vulnerability and restlessness of a dying person, in the middle of nowhere; if not how this film portray. Illusions of a hopeful mind stuck to death and imaginations of a wild soul are so deeply embedded scene after scenes that steal the show. Nonetheless James Franco, was amazingly extraordinary, emotions, expressions, everything, one of his best performance.

A pretty emotional, moving film. Simplistic but Franco's performance carries this movie and I really mean that because of the plots simplicity but it had to for the film to be successful. It pulls you in from an almost point of view for most of the movie so you almost feel trapped but on edge with the character thinking of ways to bust yourself free. Rarely do I say a film should be longer but with this one it could and should have been. I say this because I found myself feeling bad for him but barely crying. It didn't feel quite right. While at the end I did cry. After finishing it I thought for a bit about how it just jumped into him being out and about and while that was necessary, I felt it lacked a very strong emotional attachment to the character I was searching for. Perhaps a more front story to see a stronger attachment to family or friends before being lodged by the boulder would have gave this movie a better rating. Regardless it was a good movie and definitely worth a watch.