{"id":21,"date":"2014-06-16T22:30:57","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T22:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=21"},"modified":"2024-04-28T14:40:22","modified_gmt":"2024-04-28T18:40:22","slug":"review-all-is-lost-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":"All is Lost-2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>All is Lost-2013<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Director J.C. Chandor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Starring Robert Redford<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Scott&#8217;s Review #4<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/70266673.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1388\" src=\"http:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/70266673-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"70266673\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/70266673-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/70266673.jpg 284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Reviewed June 16, 2014<\/p>\n<p><strong>Grade: D<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The accolades heaped on All is Lost from 2013 escape me.<\/p>\n<p>Some felt that this was Robert Redford&#8217;s late-in-life masterpiece. I&#8217;ve never found him to be a great talent as an actor, and while not horrible in this film, it is not the Oscar-worthy performance being bandied about.<\/p>\n<p>Many actors would play this role better- Tom Hanks and Sean Penn come to mind.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond the performance, facets of the film remain unexplained. How did he become shipwrecked? Why did ships pass by not noticing him? Who is he?<\/p>\n<p>Much of the movie drags and a feeling of having seen this film many times before kept gnawing at me. I do give the film credit for containing only one cast member.<\/p>\n<p>But castaway and shipwreck movies have been around since the beginning. They all have the standard plot developments- broken equipment, sharks, and storms, which makes it quite contrived.<\/p>\n<p>Fail.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Independent Spirit Award Nominations:\u00a0<\/strong>Best Feature, Best Director-J.C. Chandor, Best Male Lead-Robert Redford, Best Cinematography<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All is Lost-2013 Director J.C. Chandor Starring Robert Redford Scott&#8217;s Review #4 Reviewed June 16, 2014 Grade: D The accolades heaped on All is Lost from 2013 escape me. Some felt that this was Robert Redford&#8217;s late-in-life masterpiece. I&#8217;ve never found him to be a great talent as an actor, and while not horrible in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/?p=21\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">All is Lost-2013<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,151,205,192,41,231,211,4372,1080],"tags":[76,259,193,73,232,212,4373,1081],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2013-films","category-actionfilms","category-adventure-films","category-dramas","category-indiefilms","category-indie-adventure","category-indie-dramas","category-j-c-chandor","category-robert-redford","tag-2013-movie-reviews","tag-adventure-films","tag-dramas-2","tag-independent-films","tag-indie-adventure","tag-indie-dramas","tag-j-c-chandor","tag-robert-redford"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20170,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/20170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottsfilmreviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}