The Walk

2022

Action / Crime / Drama

6
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 58% · 14 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 58%
IMDb Rating 5.3/10 10 521 521

boston, massachusetts racial segregation cop

Plot summary

In 1974, a Boston Irish cop confronts fierce social pressure after being assigned to protect black high school students as they are bused into all-white South Boston High.

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Daniel Adams

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Sally Kirkland as Mrs. Kelley
Jay Huguley Photo
Jay Huguley as Riley
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Jeremy Piven as Johnny Bunkley
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Terrence Howard as Lamont Robbins
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by lee_eisenberg 6 / 10

it appears that 1974 Boston consisted of abrasive people

Busing was a major issue in the late '60s and early '70s, seen as a way to end school segregation. Not surprisingly, large numbers of white people resisted it. "The Walk" looks at the resistance to busing in 1970s Boston, focusing on a cop who has to help ferry Black children to a predominantly White school while also dealing with local gangsters and even his daughter's racist views. Basically, the movie makes everyone in the city - regardless of skin color - look like an unpleasant person.I guess that the point is that racism runs deep in this country, even among the younger generations. One of the characters even notes that liberal Massachusetts doesn't seem much different from confederate Alabama. Can our society ever overcome this scourge?Not a masterpiece, but passable. The cast includes Justin Chatwin, Terrence Howard, Jeremy Piven, Katie Douglas and Malcolm McDowell.
Reviewed by burlesonjesse5 6 / 10

VIEWS ON FILM review of The Walk

"I deal with racist people all the time". That stinks. Can't we all just get along?Anyway 2022's The Walk has a title that doesn't clearly define what it's about. I do know that it's one of those "don't forget where you came from" Boston movies. No judgement here. I just think I've seen too many of them over the past twenty years. "Walk" also has some Bostonian accents, one beatdown clip, and mentions the term "Southie" a lot. Paging Sean Maguire, Sean Maguire.So yeah, The Walk is a film of many tones. It's all over the place. Talks about race, daughter protection, mob ties, and cop talk. It all feels like a TV miniseries wrapped up in 105 minutes. The screenplay is recycled, the interconnecting stories wander. You get an elongated version of Crash but it takes place on the other side of the country. Did I mention Terrence Howard is involved?Mid-2000s films aside, did I like The Walk as a talky flick that was filmed entirely in New Orleans (masquerading as Beantown)? Somewhat. There were actually some scenes that left me with a lump in my throat. And did I gravitate towards "Walk" as a pic with wishy-washy characters who cater to the crux of altered stating? Not entirely. "Walk" suffers from being too effete. You don't ultimately know where everyone's head is at.Distributed by Vertical Entertainment and edited with unvaried continuity by Justin Williams (he's been around the block for the past ten years), The Walk meanders for a good hour and a half until things come to a head. It's a film about ethnic group relations circa 1974 in Boston, Mass. The actors involved (Malcolm McDowell, Jeremy Piven, Justin Chatwin) aren't bad but their personas feel dated in a vehicle that despite good intentions, is indeed dated (I'm not referring to "Walk's" "Me' Decade" setting). "Walk about".
Reviewed by mssmithsmith 6 / 10

Good but needed more

I wanted there to be more parallels with other divisions in Boston to flesh out the broad truth about divisions among people.Not a lot.. but a few thoughtful comments and remembrances about events in Northern Ireland and the history with the Brits.You just have to watch the Godfatherti see the treatment of Italians.Race is one issue but Irish Catholics were not a welcome group either vs Protestants And Italians were discriminated against too.By the time of these events both groups became 'American white'.Do maybe I'm asking too much. Maybe the history of our country needs revisions to include a broader and deeper set of info about how all immigrants were treated here oh and why they left their countries in the first place!
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