Don T Worry He Won T Get Far On Foot Review Joaquin Phoenix And Jonah Hill Excel In Disability Drama
Joaquin Phoenix’s wheelchair has surely been illegally tweaked for speed. Phoenix, in the role of quadriplegic cartoonist John Callahan, blasts along happily with his hair blown back by the wind from one sidewalk to another. Cars left and right screech to a stop. Unsurprisingly, he completely derails, and is sprawled over the roadside when he overconfidently pops a curb. Lying there on the roadside, Phoenix recreates edgy and taboo cartoonist John Callahan’s most famous cartoon – one in which an empty wheelchair lies in the desert surrounded by Sheriffs, assuring one another, ‘he won’t get far on foot....