The Way

Martin Sheen stars as a father whose son died on the first day of trying to walk the Camino de Santiago trail from France to Spain (a 500mi trek). Sheen goes to France to pick up his remains and decides to walk the trail as his way of reconnecting with his son, with whom he did not have a happy departure. Along the trail, he meets up with some other pilgrims and they complete the trip. The goal of the movie was to be understated and it certainly succeeds. That said, there's not much going on here. Sheen's character doesn't really do any self-reflection or gain any real insight. He's nearly 70 years old but experiences no health difficulties. And the people he walks with aren't particularly interesting. In the end, it's basically just 2 hours of nothing. 4/10.