Review by Jeremy_Urquhart

I'd seen every major Peter Weir film before this one (except The Plumber, which sounds cool but is a TV movie, so might not count), and fittingly, The Way Back is also his final feature film. It is technically well-made and has a good cast, with all the members of said cast giving good performances. It looks nice, and it continues Weir's clear passion for stories that involve travel, survival, or some kind of "adventure"... but The Way Back is also pretty dull.

It's a good movie that's dull, which is better than a badly made movie that's dull, but I still find it hard to get excited about something that's written and edited in such a by-the-numbers way. It might add to a sense of things being more realistic, or grounded, which could've been desirable with this being based on real events, but it just should've soared a little more. It's no Master and Commander or Gallipoli, and it's probably even inferior to the flawed (but slightly more interesting) The Mosquito Coast.