Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

Lollivan It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Leoni Haney Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

santospoland This film is brilliant, Robert Redford is exceptionally powerful in this film, I see some poor reviews which startles me somewhat but I know that people have different reactions to stories.To me the film is metaphorical of our times, confused, desperate, dooms day clock at 2 to midnight, climate change crisis and so on - it is literally not about any of these topics but the film offers enough generosity to allow for an exploratory interpretation.I recommend this film, be prepared to find a quiet spot and turn up the volume enough to have a good experience. I hope you love the movie as much as I. do. Don't bring popcorn by the way.

bernie-122 I had to come in here and throw in my 2 cents, after seeing some number of people who trashed this film for sailing ineptitude and bad decisions. Firstly, if you want a movie for and about sailors, this isn't it. Sure, there are some embarrassing gaffes, and I guess Robert isn't a sailor, else he wouldn't have agreed to do some of them.But we have these morons here shooting off their mouths when they couldn't even pay attention or watch the whole movie. Someone said he didn't take water on the raft with him. He did. Someone else said he took a hat with him but didn't wear it. He did. Someone else said the resin repair he did on the hole was terrible. It kept the water out, what more should it do?Others have trashed Robert Redford for giving a lame performance. This is a mistake. the fault is in the direction. I saw the same failings in Margin Call. In my opinion, J.C. Chandor is an unfit filmmaker, and shouldn't be allowed to make any more. Pretty much everything wrong with this production should be dumped straight on him. Done well, this would have been a terrific film. As it is, it's just watchable.

HotToastyRag Everyone who reads my reviews knows I don't have respect for the Academy Awards anymore. If you still revere and watch the Oscars every year, you need to watch All is Lost. Robert Redford, at seventy-seven years old, stars as a shipwrecked man fighting for survival. He's the only actor in the entire movie. It's a virtually silent performance. He wasn't nominated for an Oscar, the same year Tom Hanks wasn't nominated for Captain Phillips. What does it take? For love of Robert Redford, I sat through this ocean-set film. I'm deathly afraid of water, so it was very difficult and there were times when I covered my eyes. I can imagine that, if I wasn't afraid of water, the movie would still be extremely tense. This man is stuck on a tiny boat in the middle of the ocean and faces more obstacles than anyone in the world ever should—the dire peril he's in is always keenly felt by the audience. From running out of drinking water to getting surrounded by sharks, he fights during every scene to survive.Next to The Great Gatsby, this is the best performance of Robert Redford's career. With pretty much no spoken lines, no name, and no background to his character or situation, he manages to bond with the audience and capture their emotions. Watch this movie. I haven't watched the Oscars since.

cinemajesty "All Is Lost" marks an conceptual drama for director J.C. Chandor after the well-executed financial market thriller "Margin Call" from 2011. He directs Robert Redford on a solitary assignment through a minimal space, but has not been unable to establish a break-out scene within the picture. The actor seems to be left only in his thoughts and conceptions of the given material. Furthermore the picture had to deal with technical challenges due to open water shooting.Nevertheless Cinematographer Frank G. DeMarco and Director J.C. Chandor play it safe most most of the time with standard coverage. For the audience does that mean that they have only Redford to follow and are forced to identify with his situation. The whoa-factor is reduced close to nothing. Two moments in the picture build suspense over an average movie experience. On the one side, the opening shot with red-glowing metal container floating in open water as an allegory for a politically-left agenda menacing from the Eastern world. On the other side, the main character's sailing ship for the U.S. economy, who gets patched up frequently, only to sink after a desperate fight against inevitable forces of nature.The previously mentioned scene, which marks the dramatic peak of the picture, when Redford in MCU stares on the sinking boat (arguably mimicking the U.S. film industry); followed by an inter-cutted POV wide shot exposing the vanishing boat, swallowed by the sea (arguably representing the globalized film industry). A hidden statement on the state of play for an struggling industry, only to be magnified with a burning oil rig in Peter Berg's "Deepwater Horizon" from Fall 2016.