This is a Pure Movies review of The Way Back, directed by Peter Weir and starring Ed Harris, Colin Farrell, Jim Sturgess, Saoirse Ronan, Dejan Angelov, Yordan Bikov, Dragos Bucur, Sattar Dikambayev, Sally Edwards and Valentin Ganev. It's been seven long years since acclaimed Australian director Peter Weir’s (Gallipoli, The Truman Show) last cinematic outing – 2003's Master and Commander – but The Way Back finds him again exploring a similar Boys’ Own yarn of an adventure. Based on a true story, it recounts the extraordinary escape from a Russian gulag by a group of men in 1940. Extraordinary because they managed to escape the camp and subsequently survived the Siberian wilderness and trekked a staggering 4,000 miles – crossing the Himalayas to reach India for their eventual freedom. To put that in perspective, that’s like walking from Land’s End to John O’Groats and back again… in some of the worst...
- 1/4/2011
- by David Hudson
- Pure Movies
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