127 Hours (2010)

James Franco cuts through rock, bone, and your composure in Danny Boyle's relentless true story of a man who refused to die in a canyon.

Crowd Score: 7.5/10

Who Is It For?

Survival thriller fans who want more than just tension — this is a film about the human will to live, shot with Danny Boyle's signature visual energy. If you loved Into the Wild, Touching the Void, or even Gravity, this delivers that same cocktail of awe and dread. It's also a masterclass in one-man-show acting for James Franco fans.

Vibe Match

Into the Wild meets Buried — Danny Boyle turns one man's worst day into a kinetic, hallucinatory survival epic

What People Are Saying

The film 127 Hours starring James Franco where he plays a mountain climber whose arm is trapped under boulder and this scene freeing of himself once he... This is one of those movies that stay with you.

— crowd consensus

Boyle's Oscar-winning instincts for pacing are on full display. He knows exactly when to linger in the silence and when to explode into manic energy.

— editorial

Franco carries the entire film essentially solo. His performance cycles through bravado, denial, despair, dark humor, and primal desperation — it's the role that earned him his only Oscar nomination and arguably his finest work.

— crowd consensus

Variety reflected on Franco's 'obsessive' performance as one of the most committed one-man-show turns in modern cinema.

— editorial

Anthony Dod Mantle and Enrique Chediak shot on a mix of formats — 35mm, digital, and consumer cameras — giving the film a textural variety that mirrors Ralston's shifting mental states. The canyon feels both beautiful and suffocating.

— crowd consensus