Plot
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.
Release Year: 2013
Rating: 7.1/10 (504 voted)
Director:J.C. Chandor
Storyline
Deep into a solo voyage in the Indian Ocean, an unnamed man (Redford) wakes to find his 39-foot yacht taking on water after a collision with a shipping container left floating on the high seas. With his navigation equipment and radio disabled, the man sails unknowingly into the path of a violent storm. Despite his success in patching the breached hull, his mariner's intuition and a strength that belies his age, the man barely survives the tempest. Using only a sextant and nautical maps to chart his progress, he is forced to rely on ocean currents to carry him into a shipping lane in hopes of hailing a passing vessel. But with the sun unrelenting, sharks circling and his meager supplies dwindling, the ever-resourceful sailor soon finds himself staring his mortality in the face.
Robert Redford's "All Is Lost" is the crown jewel of a great acting
career and deserves all the plaudits and awards that will most
assuredly come its way, including a much long-overdue Oscar for the
star. Literally a one-man show, the film puts on raw display every
speck of this actor's jammed arsenal of acting talent, accumulated from
over more than a half-century on stage, TV and film. This is a
celebration within a celebration, a star's survival with decency and
respect completely intact in an industry not always known for either,
and an actor up to the rigors and stature of of a monumental character
and story worthy of the great literary works. One for the ages, this.
And bravo!
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