Adapting this from Aron Ralston's real life account, I heard from a friend who's read the book that he has stayed very close to the truth. And making a movie about with just one character trapped in solitude, it's very tricky to make it interesting. Both the director and the actor alone need to keep audience's attention or it's a failure. Therefore, James Franco delivered brilliantly. Not many actors can carry the whole movie on his own, the only other I know was Tom Hanks in Cast Away which he also did brilliantly. (I haven't seen Buried with Ryan Reynolds so I'm not sure how good that is yet.)
Boyle managed to capture the psychological challenges that Ralston faced while in his "captivity", and Franco certainly delivered that from an acting point-of-view. That's why the audience could almost feel what Ralston had to go through, right until and especially the very end - from cutting himself and then to his rescue. The way a movie could make feelings surface from inside of a person shows just how capable the director is. And Boyle was ever so successful with this one.
However, I found the movie got a bit stale when Franco playing Ralston was looking through what the two girls he met earlier recorded. I thought if that part was skipped it might have removed the possibility of a little boredom creeping up because it got a little too draggy.
But just the story itself was inspiring enough and with the greatness of the director and actor, the story became even more.
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