Vertical Limit (2000)
Country: US/GER
Technical: col 124m
Director: Martin Campbell
Cast: Scott Glenn, Chris O'Donnell, Bill Paxton, Robin Tunney, Izabella Scorupco, Ben Mendelsohn, Roshan Seth
Synopsis:
Brother and sister climbers patch up their differences over a millionaire's self-aggrandizing assault on the peak of K2.
Review:
Cliff-hanging entertainment with newfangled digital effects but same-old plotting by numbers: rope-cutting prologue, hubris and nemesis on the mountain, three rescue teams instead of one to provide expendable cast members, an old score to settle... All nail biting enough, and with stunning location work, it would be good if it were not so silly: taking unstable nitroglycerine on your back for a rescue attempt, a man who's lost his toes to frostbite still climbs faster than everyone else, and another's ethical quotient is naturally in inverse proportion to the dollars he has. Ironic, given this film's wanton globetrotting for just the right peaks, from Arizona to Montana, New Zealand to the Himalaya.
Country: US/GER
Technical: col 124m
Director: Martin Campbell
Cast: Scott Glenn, Chris O'Donnell, Bill Paxton, Robin Tunney, Izabella Scorupco, Ben Mendelsohn, Roshan Seth
Synopsis:
Brother and sister climbers patch up their differences over a millionaire's self-aggrandizing assault on the peak of K2.
Review:
Cliff-hanging entertainment with newfangled digital effects but same-old plotting by numbers: rope-cutting prologue, hubris and nemesis on the mountain, three rescue teams instead of one to provide expendable cast members, an old score to settle... All nail biting enough, and with stunning location work, it would be good if it were not so silly: taking unstable nitroglycerine on your back for a rescue attempt, a man who's lost his toes to frostbite still climbs faster than everyone else, and another's ethical quotient is naturally in inverse proportion to the dollars he has. Ironic, given this film's wanton globetrotting for just the right peaks, from Arizona to Montana, New Zealand to the Himalaya.
Country: US/GER
Technical: col 124m
Director: Martin Campbell
Cast: Scott Glenn, Chris O'Donnell, Bill Paxton, Robin Tunney, Izabella Scorupco, Ben Mendelsohn, Roshan Seth
Synopsis:
Brother and sister climbers patch up their differences over a millionaire's self-aggrandizing assault on the peak of K2.
Review:
Cliff-hanging entertainment with newfangled digital effects but same-old plotting by numbers: rope-cutting prologue, hubris and nemesis on the mountain, three rescue teams instead of one to provide expendable cast members, an old score to settle... All nail biting enough, and with stunning location work, it would be good if it were not so silly: taking unstable nitroglycerine on your back for a rescue attempt, a man who's lost his toes to frostbite still climbs faster than everyone else, and another's ethical quotient is naturally in inverse proportion to the dollars he has. Ironic, given this film's wanton globetrotting for just the right peaks, from Arizona to Montana, New Zealand to the Himalaya.