Vertical Limit (Special Edition)
by Martin Campbell
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Actor: Bill Paxton, Chris O'Donnell, Robin Tunney, Scott Glenn, Stuart WilsonDirector: Martin Campbell
Brand: Sony
Producer: Martin Campbell
Producer: Amy Lescoe
Producer: Lloyd Phillips
Producer: Marcia Nasatir
Producer: Mike Medavoy
Writer: Robert King
Writer: Terry Hayes
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Special Edition, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 124 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-05-22
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Sony Pictures
Movie Reviews of Vertical Limit (Special Edition)
Movie Review: Not worth watching
Summary: 1 Stars
This is a movie about climbing of K2 by a young brash group of climbers. The main characters are a brother and sister whose father and other family members perished in a family rock climb, which demanded that one of the family members cut the rope to save their life, but lead to the death of the other members of the family. All in all, the only value to this film was nice cinemaphotography. It's deficits are plentiful. There are multiple serious climbing inaccuracies, including a) people don't climb 5-6 people per rope on rock b) people don't have major amounts of flesh exposed with light garments high on K2 c) people don't breath easily for long periods of time in the death zone, d) steroids are not the magic fix for HAPE, e) nobody survives for more than an hour deep in a crevasse, as it's just too cold, etc., etc. The film was produced mostly in New Zealand, which was also quite easy to detect. The plot of the story was quite crazy. Subplots, such as the necessity of carrying large quantities of nitroglycerine to the top of K2 in order to rescue their comrades was stupid. Historic climbing ethic was that you go down with your party, and not that you cut yourself loose in order to kill your rope members and save your own skin. I am not sure why such a quality climber like Ed Viestures would allow himself to have multiple cameos in the film with so many gross inadequacies. This film is not worth watching.
Summary of Vertical Limit (Special Edition)
An emotionally-charged action-adventure tale of a retired climber who must launch a treacherous and extraordinary rescue effort up k2 the worlds second highest peak to save his estranged sister and her summit team in a race against time. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 09/20/2005 Starring: Chris Odonnell Scott Glenn Run time: 124 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Martin CampbellFinally, a movie for the REI set! For all those mountain-climbing aficionados who devoured Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air and similar books (as well as the IMAX film Everest), Vertical Limit attempts to translate man-against-the-mountain adventure into compelling, albeit fictional, drama. And while the climbing action is pretty darn breathtaking, somebody forgot to put the brakes on the clich? machine while penning the screenplay. Two siblings (Chris O'Donnell and Robin Tunney) are mentally scarred by a climbing accident in which their father died to save them. She becomes a famous mountain climber (catch that Sports Illustrated cover?); he never climbs again, and becomes a National Geographic photographer. She agrees to accompany a shady billionaire (Bill Paxton) up the icy carapace of K2, the world's second highest mountain; he just happens to be "in the neighborhood" when she starts. After the requisite argument, she sets out, but an avalanche strands her and the billionaire in some kind of underground cavern, and bad weather forbids a daring rescue. It's up to her determined brother to bring her back, along with a ragtag team of rescuers that includes a French-Canadian babe, two wisecracking Aussies, and a crusty old sage (Scott Glenn) who has a few scores to settle.
It's easy to pick out the rest of the story from here (though you probably didn't count on that faulty nitroglycerine, now did you?), but Vertical Limit is less about the hackneyed plot than it is about putting its characters into increasingly dangerous situations and hanging them precariously over various mountainsides. It's a credit to director Martin Campbell (GoldenEye) that the impressive action keeps the film moving along past the bordering-on-absurd plot twists. O'Donnell tosses his mane of fluffy hair admirably, but it's still disheartening to see this once-promising actor turning into a pretty-boy stand-in; only Glenn manages to overcome his character's predictability. Mountaineering enthusiasts will recognize a cameo by world-renowned climber Ed Viesturs, who as an actor proves that he's... a very good mountain climber. --Mark Englehart
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