All Is Lost

Hardly to tell anything about the movie. My mind melted and vaporized like the chocolate in the furnace. It's anything but realistic. I was truly sucked in at first, i was truly moved in the end when RR saw the light on the distance. I first thought it was the huge container, which caused the collateral damage in the beginning of the movie. The last scene came, and i just swallowed my table in front of me. The typical cliché came, and demolished everything on it's way. Inane and feeble as donkey's ass. How could this be possible? And why is this movie so overrated? Metascore: 87/100??? Was that another version I had been watching? Save your time, save your money and save your soul.

This is a minimalist movie, which means there is minimal story, minimal directing, minimal acting and even minimal music ... there's just very little of everything. Not enough of anything. I remember back in the days when Robert Redford used to make GOOD movies like "the last castle" for instance ... but now, he decided to make THIS. It's terrible in every way possible, even the graphics weren't THAT good, I mean you could tell it's a green screen thing even though it's supposed to be a recreation of a natural phenomenon. If you go watch this thing, be aware that you're in for almost 2 hours of utter nonsense, there is nothing to watch here, I mean I don't want to put spoilers in my review but this movie doesn't need spoiling, it's already spoiled! This is the worst thing I've seen in years, and YES, ALL is lost, your money, your time and even any residual admiration you have for Rob Redford. Guys, Don't waste your time.

Robert Redford now an elder certainly in the final years of his acting time and life gives a performance to remember. And that's just a turn as a plain sailor man who without a name and really he has no words to say during the film! It proves that actions speak louder than words! Anyway "All is Lost" is a moving film of one man's will and determination to stay alive as the scenes show the forces of mother nature can put us at our strongest as a human will resort to many methods for the chance to live. The film is a tale of a sea collision involving a shipping container at sea. And Robert Redford is the sailor man at sea in the Indian ocean on the yacht when a powerful storm that's very violent hits the high sea. By watching you see how it's one character's struggle to survive and live. It proves that you should never give up it takes a lot of courage and will to live as just like the high sea life too is a violent storm many times. Overall this picture doesn't do many words it's actions of a struggle for life speaks the loudest and Redford in his wise age perhaps gives his strongest and smartest performance.

I love Redford, really I do. But this was seriously one of the sorriest movies I have ever seen, from a technical point of view. From the very first moment - fresh fruit shown in the cabin 1700 miles from Sumatra (which, we are to assume, is the nearest land?) - I knew that NO ONE who has ever sailed had anything to do with making a realistic film. The choices the hero makes are really implausible; his decisions worse. At one point I said to my sailor-husband, "This guy deserves to drown." If you want to go and admire Redford, do so. If you have ever sailed, and expect to be gripped by angst and admiration, save your time and watch the Volvo around the world races instead.

I don't understand why people thought this movie was so engrossing. All I am shown is an inept man on a solo sailing journey making every decision possible contrary to survival with dramatic music. Or was it to show how unprepared the "modern" man is at survival? Was this "Into the Wild", a planned suicide but too cowardly to do it from the get? Was this a Piano moment with Holly Hunter? There were so many things wrong with this film and those of you who thought it "Amaz-ing!" know nothing about sailing, survival and being prepared as was obvious with the character, writer, director. Or was it to show no matter how stupid you are there is always a chance there is someone to save you because western civilization has become so coddled and lazy, most have forgotten how to do things for themselves. Even though there is something called history that helps us to not repeat all the stupid things humans have done for the past 2.4 whatever million years. Disappointing film. And Redford wasn't acting, he was just being a feeble old man moving about doing things you would not do on a solo sailing journey. Oh, because that is what he is, a 77-year old feeble man. One would think an older man would have a little wisdom and common sense. Was this film saying our old people of today are devoid of any life wisdom to share? This movie was a look at round peg, triangle hole. And speaking of pegs, Simon Pegg certainly would have been a much better choice for this film, at least there would have been a comical narration to all the hijinks he got himself into. Maybe a couple flashbacks and dream sequences...meh. Or was it just a planned train wreck for all the rubberneckers so the movie industry could make another buck? YEP! Bust a Coal!

As an experienced international offshore yachtsman for 30 years I was really looking forward to this movie - and I was sadly disappointed. The opening scenes we are presented with the prospect of a 40' shipping container yacht striking a 40' yacht to such a degree that it creates a half metre hole in the yacht...but does not wake the skipper!!. To believe this you would have to accept that Redfords character was in fact in a coma, or without a pulse! This was immediately surpassed by Redford, when he awoke not immediately running the bilge pumps when the water is only just lapping the floor boards - no he waits until its waist deep and the has to use a hand pump, (with a hand made handle) as the batteries are now submerged. You only have to wait a little longer to witness further stupidity - he abandons ship whilst its still salvageable, and then without taking all the provisions that one must have stowed for such a big passage - and then of course runs out of food in the life raft! The final act of lighting a fire in the life raft and burning the entire craft had me thinking this was perhaps a remake of Dumb and Dumber. Just the fact we are expected to accept that such an obviously inept solo yachtsman, devoid of any seamanship, navigation or common sense, sailing a completely ill-equipped yacht could make it half way around the world, presumably from the USA to Indonesia before he strikes trouble is in itself implausible. This movies final stages had me hoping the Redford character would not survive, thus proving Darwins theory and providing some hope for the worlds gene pool.

I should have asked for my money back. Compared to Castaway with Tom Hanks, this is totally ineffective. It doesn't built any compassion for the idiot sailor who is woefully unprepared for solo sailing and if a disaster at sea should occur. Redford should return to his mountain retreat and film something better like Jeremiah Johnson instead of trying to convince (fool) us into thinking he's seaworthy. It was time that I won't get back and an experience that didn't connect to me emotionally or factually whatsoever. 1/10.