Everest (2015)
Country: GB/US/ICE
Technical: col/2.39:1 121m
Director: Baltasar Kormákur
Cast: Jason Clarke, Jake Gyllenhaal, Josh Brolin, Emily Watson, Keira Knightley, Robin Wright
Synopsis:
May 1996: two guided teams of amateur mountaineers depart from Base Camp on an unusually busy week of expeditions to 'summit' Everest. One of them is led by New Zealander Rob Hall, and numbers one or two liabilities that are compounded by bad weather and half-empty oxygen cylinders.
Review:
The film's presumed agenda is to cast doubt on the wisdom of such 'Adventure Challenge'-style expeditions, on a mountain where anything can happen in spite of the apparently rudimentary nature of the climb itself (little more than a hike with fixed ropes). All this is nail-bitingly put together in the second hour, but there is a lot of down time before we get there. Still, as drama-documentary, this is on a different level to Vertical Limit, and at least the characters are more likeable, and believable.
Country: GB/US/ICE
Technical: col/2.39:1 121m
Director: Baltasar Kormákur
Cast: Jason Clarke, Jake Gyllenhaal, Josh Brolin, Emily Watson, Keira Knightley, Robin Wright
Synopsis:
May 1996: two guided teams of amateur mountaineers depart from Base Camp on an unusually busy week of expeditions to 'summit' Everest. One of them is led by New Zealander Rob Hall, and numbers one or two liabilities that are compounded by bad weather and half-empty oxygen cylinders.
Review:
The film's presumed agenda is to cast doubt on the wisdom of such 'Adventure Challenge'-style expeditions, on a mountain where anything can happen in spite of the apparently rudimentary nature of the climb itself (little more than a hike with fixed ropes). All this is nail-bitingly put together in the second hour, but there is a lot of down time before we get there. Still, as drama-documentary, this is on a different level to Vertical Limit, and at least the characters are more likeable, and believable.
Country: GB/US/ICE
Technical: col/2.39:1 121m
Director: Baltasar Kormákur
Cast: Jason Clarke, Jake Gyllenhaal, Josh Brolin, Emily Watson, Keira Knightley, Robin Wright
Synopsis:
May 1996: two guided teams of amateur mountaineers depart from Base Camp on an unusually busy week of expeditions to 'summit' Everest. One of them is led by New Zealander Rob Hall, and numbers one or two liabilities that are compounded by bad weather and half-empty oxygen cylinders.
Review:
The film's presumed agenda is to cast doubt on the wisdom of such 'Adventure Challenge'-style expeditions, on a mountain where anything can happen in spite of the apparently rudimentary nature of the climb itself (little more than a hike with fixed ropes). All this is nail-bitingly put together in the second hour, but there is a lot of down time before we get there. Still, as drama-documentary, this is on a different level to Vertical Limit, and at least the characters are more likeable, and believable.