Netflix Pick for 3/9/15 – ‘All Is Lost’

Want to see an old man get battered by waves and storms and attempt to survive a very long stranding at sea? Does it make a difference if that old man is Robert Redford? Cause it should. And “All Is Lost” is 106 minutes of just that, Robert Redford, by himself on a broken boat, trying to survive.

And it is pretty damn great. It is a really compelling movie, thanks in part because of how Redford is just so watchable, but also because of how the story unfolds, in the way the stakes keep raising and the danger gets closer and closer, all the way with only one character and one who doesn’t even bother talking to an inanimate object at any point, he just belts out a couple of f-bombs at one point of extreme frustration and hopelessness and other than that, steely eyed, stoic Redford.

See for yourself and watch “All Is Lost” right here on the Netflix Instant.