This was a film were they threw out all the best bits in the book and added pointless dialogue. All fans of the original would have been offended by this, including me. That the creators of this did not care about this at all is appalling. The film was also boring. I only kept awake to watch Nick Nolte, who was excellent throughout. Rising well above the dreadful script. Redford, however looked like a pickled Mick Jagger, and was so old he appeared to have difficulty walking across the room in his own house, never mind the Appalachian Trail. He was supposed to be 47. Did he have progeria or something? By the time the bed collapsed in the bunk house, I lost it completely and began to hate the script writers. They were adding slapstick. Ditto the falling in the river, ditto the falling off the none-existent (in the book) ledge. The walk to K Mart in the film included quicksand, surely pretty rare outside of tidal estuaries. This could have been so much better. 'The Way', by Emilio Estevez is still the best walking movie by a mile.
Review of A Walk in the Woods
