‘Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off’ Film Review: Legendary Skateboarder Makes a Reticent Doc Subject
thewrap.comas an art form, addresses the interviewer with shining eyes and a kind voice. In an impassioned monologue that lends the documentary its name, he speaks about skateboarding with a kind of sublime reverence.
Despite the bodily costs, he insists, “this is the luxury of having spent my life doing what I love.”“I’m not going to give up until the wheels fall off,” Mullen goes on. “That’s what I’m made of.
I wish I could relate the intangibles to you.”“Until the Wheels Fall Off” also struggles to fully elucidate its more abstract concepts: freedom, passion, perfection, fearlessness, gratitude, love.
That’s not for lack of trying. Jones, also the film’s cinematographer, has situated each of his subjects outdoors, often surrounded by green space, lending the project a much-needed sense of openness.
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