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“Why do you walk on the wire? Pourquoi?” asks high-wire walker Philippe Petit (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), direct to camera in the opening moments of The Walk. It’s a question audiences may want to ask director Robert Zemeckis, whose colourful but unsteady drama tells the tale of Petit’s 1974 tightrope walk between …

Despite making his screen entrance in a nasty road accident, Joseph Gordon-Levitt emerges mostly unscathed from David Koepp’s bicycle chaser, credibility-wise at least. A goofy thriller about hipsters doing cool shit on hot bikes was bound to be a comedown in his Looper/Dark Knight Rises year, unless you count Kevin …