Paris, 1970s. Philippe Petit is a high-wire artist who specializes in death-defying heights. He finds out that the World Trade Center is being built in New York, with two towers at a height of 415 m above sea level, twice as high as the Eiffel Tower. Pushed by his desire to go to the extreme for his art, he flies to the States and puts together a team to start planning his walk between the Two Towers.

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In 2011, Robert Zemeckis produced one of his greatest failures: the animated Mars Needs Moms, which was meant to be revolutionary but actually flopped at the Hollywood box office. It was the last in a series of animated films he had made since Cast Away and it obviously motivated him to return to classic movies. This he did in 2012 with Flight, which got Denzel Washington an Oscar nomination. The Walk confirms the renaissance of the director of Back to the Future and Forrest Gump. Here he adapts the incredible life of the Philippe Petit, filming it as a heist flick by focusing on the logistics of getting into the building and attaching the necessary cables without the authorities catching wind of the plan. Thrilling, suspenseful and funny, The Walk is also somewhat impersonal, without any real soul or inventiveness, not really going beyond the technical aspect. But it has plenty of the spectacular filmography Zemeckis bring to all his movies, be they bad (Death Becomes Her) or excellent Who Framed Roger Rabbit).