«The Walk,» Zemeckis» account of Phillippe Petit's 1974 tightrope walk between the Twin Towers of the old World Trade Center, would seem to be the ultimate Zemeckis set piece, rivaling the awesomeness of the plane crash and island sequences of «Cast Away,» the upside - down jet maneuver
in «Flight,» the intergalactic wormhole trips
in «Contact,» and the small - scaled relentlessness of the
suspense sequences
in his under - appreciated 2000 thriller «What Lies Beneath» (which wrung tremendous excitement from the question of whether a nearly paralyzed woman could use her big
toe to remove the stopper from a bathtub drain).
Boxoffice Magazine finds it to be a «smart, crafty
suspense - laden picture,» and,
in its A - review, The Playlist calls it «a gripping nail - biter, superbly suspenseful and yet occasionally light on its
toes.»