Highly Overrated But Still Good

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

'The Way' has plenty of appeal and the story behind it is a moving one, but it does feel like a missed opportunity. While anybody who enjoys road trip style films will probably get some pleasure out of 'The Way', it's only engaging for so long and unfortunately doesn't have the depth of plot required for a 2 hour long film.It's around the halfway point when the film really starts to run low on ideas. It becomes repetitive and dull, and in its desperation it resorts to some very unconvincing and poorly written situations. Most notably, the scene where the characters get drunk and start trading insults, which felt totally unnatural and didn't match the atmosphere of the film.

From the first scene itself, the film feels like its trying too hard to be something. It's trying to be inspirational, meaningful and deep but ends up lacking everything. The dialogues are horrible although you feel the heart put behind it that you can't hate it. It's so shallow in reiterating the same structure of sequences again and again albeit with a sweetness.

When the Americans make a film about the Europe they made product interesting only to Americans. The story is beautiful and the landscapes through which the actors are going unforgettable. But scenario is a weak point. Many platitudes and clichés. Characters from Europe are displayed with American models of behavior. Music is unadapted, especially modern music. The only song that was adapted to the movie scene is Spanish song on Gypsy celebration. The scene at the end when the main characters come to the cathedral is poor. There is take away the natural tone and inserted ambient music. The acting is good. But stereotypes are ruin the movie. This film should have to make some Spanish or French director.

I found this title when searching for movies about Backpacking. There are not many of them, so when I came across "The Way" I ordered it from my local library and patiently awaited its arrival.I have always appreciated the acting chops of Martin Sheen. And what a nice surprise to see that his son Emilio is also a wonderful actor, and so much more - literally - down to Earth than the other son. This is the story of a father who is going about his habitual life - seeing patients in his ophthalmology office, playing golf and drinking beers with his buddies, and yet something is missing - an understanding of his son Daniel's desire to travel the world. Unfortunately, he just doesn't get it, and even makes judgments about Daniel's decision to quit school and learn Anthropology from actually being with people in different social situations.The "spoiler," as you can see on the box cover and in any other review on this movie, is that when Tom learns that his son was killed on a French mountain, Tom's life is shifted to a place where he steps into his son's shoes to complete the pilgrimage upon which Daniel had embarked. I laughed and cried and marveled at the deft fingers of Emilio Estevez as he wove a wonderful tale of father and son and each one's search for himself on the beautiful panorama known as El Camino de Santiago. Masterful and heart-rending, I would highly recommend it to anyone who loves Nature and is ready to engage in an inner search.