Label:<\/strong> eOne \/ Region:<\/strong> A \/\u00a0Released:<\/strong> \u00a0February 11, 2014<\/p>\n Genre:<\/strong> \u00a0Drama \/ Survival<\/p>\n Synopsis:<\/strong> A sailor attempts to stay alive and reach a shipping zone after his boat is punctured by a floating container.<\/p>\n Special Features:<\/strong>\u00a0 Audio commentary with writer-director J.C. Chandor and producers Neal Dodson & Anna Gerb \/ 6 Making-of featurettes: \u201cThe Story\u201d + The Filmmaler: JC Chandor\u201d + \u201cThe Actor: Robert Redford\u201d + \u201cThe Sound of All Is Lost\u201d + \u201cBig Film, Small Film\u201d + \u201cPreparing the Storm\u201d \/ Bonus DVD Copy.<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Review:<\/strong><\/p>\n J.C. Chandor\u2019s lone-man-on-the-sea film is an unpretentious survival tale of a confident, stoic, practical minded man (Robert Redford) who does everything right to avoid hunger, wayward drift, and death, but is repeatedly foiled by Mother Nature at every turn. The sailor\u2019s bad string of luck begins when he wakes up to the sounds of water sloshing into the cabin area after a midnight collision with a shipping container (possibly from a tumble from a ship vessel, or a leftover from the brutal tsunami which pounded the Japanese coast in 2011).<\/p>\n Because All Is Lost<\/b> isn\u2019t a showy film, it has to be subversive in grabbing the audience. Chandor uses the sailor\u2019s reactions to situations of initially variable danger to build the central character, and Redford \u2013 who utters just a few words outside of the opening narration \u2013 pulls off what seems like an easy role, but it\u2019s the restraint which makes the character so compelling, and acts as a counterbalance to the storm systems that literally tear apart the sailor\u2019s safe zone.<\/p>\n 77 year old Redford is wholly convincing as an independent man doing something routine \u2013 this is just another epic sea voyage solo for the expert seaman \u2013 and Chandor beautifully combines subtle digital effects with a wealth of practical effects. There\u2019s barely any score \u2013 most Alex Ebert\u2019s music is organically blended with sound design \u2013 and it\u2019s a heck of an accomplishment in pulling off a 106 mins. drama with just a man struggling to survive on the ocean, hoping to catch the attention of passing freighters in a well-traveled shipping zone.<\/p>\n Dangers are telegraphed in simple gestures and visuals \u2013 after being pelted by nasty weather, the audience becomes a bit more trained in recognizing a far off storm cloud is a disaster just minutes away \u2013 and when the tempestuous violence hits, its destruction is often total. However one regards the ending \u2013 it\u2019s structured to favour more than one view \u2013 All is Lost<\/b> is a simple, neat little film boasting a subtle underrated performance, and expert direction.<\/p>\n eOne\u2019s Blu-ray sports a commentary and featurettes, the sound design is detailed but never overbearing, and the HD transfer is fine, although there\u2019s some visible compression whenever there\u2019s a fadeout.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a9 2014 Mark R. Hasan<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n External References:<\/strong> J.C. 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