If you are prone to depression please reconsider watching this movie. The while the movie itself is very good and acting is superb, it is also incredibly depressing and frustrating. The final scene left me severely depressed for days. I was 420 and the scene managed to break through my high and left me crying myself to sleep. Cheers.

I have no experience at sailing. I've barely been on a boat for an hour in my entire life. But I just couldn't believe that this guy can be a seasoned seaman. Nope. He just looked like an incompetent old man sailing across the ocean for whatever reason. In about 20 mins since the start of the movie, I had decided that whatever bad happens to this guy at the sea, he deserves it for his own stupidity. Camerawork is good, sounds are on point (for an ignorant non-seaman) and the acting also seems quite good. So why was this guy shown so incompetent?

Let me get this straight. This is a movie about a guy on a boat, which gets hit by a container and has know a hole. In 2013 after a century of movie ideas someone actually gave that a green light? I am astonished. This seems like a plot for a short film 20 to 30 minutes for a film student. Watch Robert Redford doing exciting things like cooking, pumping and gluing for almost 2 hours. When the sea gets rough watch him in front of some really really awful green screen shots. And prepare to hear mind blowing sounds like rattling, squeaking and cracking. In all seriousness, this is just bad. "Cast away" did something very similar but they knew that you what need to have dialog and so they had Wilson the volleyball. I don't really want to say bad things about Redford because he did good movies and he is trying hard here too but I don't get much from him besides that this obviously exhausting for him, literally for Redford not only his character. Another thing that cast away did much better.

"All Is Lost" marks an conceptual drama for director J.C. Chandor after the well-executed financial market thriller "Margin Call" from 2011. He directs Robert Redford on a solitary assignment through a minimal space, but has not been unable to establish a break-out scene within the picture. The actor seems to be left only in his thoughts and conceptions of the given material. Furthermore the picture had to deal with technical challenges due to open water shooting.Nevertheless Cinematographer Frank G. DeMarco and Director J.C. Chandor play it safe most most of the time with standard coverage. For the audience does that mean that they have only Redford to follow and are forced to identify with his situation. The whoa-factor is reduced close to nothing. Two moments in the picture build suspense over an average movie experience. On the one side, the opening shot with red-glowing metal container floating in open water as an allegory for a politically-left agenda menacing from the Eastern world. On the other side, the main character's sailing ship for the U.S. economy, who gets patched up frequently, only to sink after a desperate fight against inevitable forces of nature.The previously mentioned scene, which marks the dramatic peak of the picture, when Redford in MCU stares on the sinking boat (arguably mimicking the U.S. film industry); followed by an inter-cutted POV wide shot exposing the vanishing boat, swallowed by the sea (arguably representing the globalized film industry). A hidden statement on the state of play for an struggling industry, only to be magnified with a burning oil rig in Peter Berg's "Deepwater Horizon" from Fall 2016.