The Eiger Sanction
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Movie Reviews of The Eiger Sanction
Movie Review: Eiger Sanction
Summary: 5 Stars
Excellent movie. Authentic climbing sequences are unusual for a movie. One of my all-time 20 favorite movies.Movie Review: the eiger sanction
Summary: 5 Stars
I like this Eastwood movie; I always found myself watching it when it came on TV so I bought it.Movie Review: Exciting, But Not One of Eastwood's Best.
Summary: 4 Stars
My wife and I really enjoy Clint Eastwood films. Well, most of them. Last night we watched "The Eiger Sanction." Do you like spy stories, secret international organizations, assigned killings and the like? Well, maybe You'd like this CD. I've somehow gotten tired of this cold-war-related type of thing. In any case, Eastwood comes out of retirement as a college art professor (really?) in order to revenge the killing of an old friend. The movie involves a lot of training )with George Kennedy as the trainer) in mountain climbing in order to confront the perpetrator on a climb of Eiger Peak in Switzerland. Well, mountain climbing involves a lot of suspense in itself, in addition to a murder plot to go along with it, and I've never particularly cared for mountain climbing.
In any case, the base camp and practice climbs were at an unidentified locality, which to me was obviously Zion National Park and Monument Valley (both beautiful locals, I might add). It seemed rather strange that they'd leave the base camp (Zion) and go out for a day's climb in Monument Valley, a full day's drive away. Sorry, I'm a geologist and just can't help notice such things. I guess making movies can get somewhat complicated. In any case, the final and most suspenseful scenes are saved for the Swiss Alps. Beautiful, beautiful local. Well, whoever put the story and screenplay together had a bizarre and twisted sense of humor and I'm not going to tell you why. Enjoy the movie. It's quite exciting, but I couldn't regard it as one of Eastwood's finer movies.
Gary Peterson
Movie Review: The reasons why
Summary: 4 Stars
There are several reasons I like this movie. 1) Trevanian wrote the book (trashy, pulp spy fiction...great for a mindless romp into the 60's), Clint Eastwood is in it (not the greatest actor, but he's got a good track record, and he enjoys the craft) 3) The Eiger has always intrigued me 4) I used to climb (age has curtailed my abilities) and 5) My 3rd cousin (Heidi Bruhl) is in it, albeit she plays a trampy wife, but she's my 3rd cousin nonetheless. I like Lee Marvin "flicks" too, my taste in music is much better. Oh sure I enjoy the Hamlets, and Much ado's etc... but we're talking American genre "flicks", not works of cinema etc... flicks.. you know EZ rider, Bronson movies stuff like that. That said... (SERIOUSLY) I remember a climbing book about the making of this movie... and the technical challenges for making some of these scenes on cliff faces and on the Eiger itself were well documented. The challenges were overcome, which and certainly took a bit of skill and logistics to pull it off. Not bad for a "B" movie as described by several reviewers... taking everything into consideration this movie was quite an undertaking, Eastwood didn't write it, he just made it happen. Guy flick? okay, whatever.Movie Review: A damn good picture...and what's wrong with it being slow?
Summary: 4 Stars
I think this is a great film. Many critics and a few reviewers always complain about it's running time (128 minutes), insisting it's too slow. Almost ALL of Clint's films (the ones he's directed) run long. The running times range from just over 2 hours to just under 3 hours (the longest being Bird, at 2 hours, 40 minutes). Sure, the film isn't PC, but it was made in 1975, when you didn't have to be PC. But there is one thing that almost everyone agrees on...the mountain climbing scenes at the end of the film. These are nervewracking and incredibly authentic. Clint did all his own stunts in these sequences, and many professional rock climbers and mountaineers have praised these sequences. And they are very intense to watch, because you know the actors are really up there. No CGI in those days. This is one of the reasons they work so well. CGI looks fake anyway. It makes movies seem like cartoons. People know it isn't real. CGI reliance should be reduced in Hollywood, as it takes the tension out of action scenes.
Check this film out. It's worth all of its 128 minutes.