Product Description: K2, a 28,250-foot mountain in Pakistan's Karakoram Range, is the setting for this adrenaline-pumping action-adventure. It's a race against time when a retired mountain climber (Chris O'Donnell) leadsa rescue mission to save his estranged sister (Robin Tunney) and other members of her team who havebecome trapped on K2 after a deadly avalanche. Martin Campbell, the celebrated director of The Maskof Zorro and GoldenEye, delivers high-voltage action and exhilarating suspense in a film that pits man against his own limitations and the awesome power of nature's uncontrollable elements.
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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Rating: - Far fetched even as 'known' Hollywood fiction!
I find myself agreeing with reviewer John Gregory that the opening scenes [** see my review on "Touching the Void" on the issue of the real-life 'cutting the rope' matter] were more interesting than the rest of the far-fetched movie!
After the initial scenes, the movie goes down hill [no pun intended] from there. Yeah, I know, it's classic Hollywood fiction and the old "hold the audience" and "build the tension and excitement" kind of thing but hey, even in pure unadulterated 'hold the audience/build the excitement' fiction, and with Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Horror genre flicks aside, at 'least' make the adventure fiction film and plot half-way believable and don't de facto take the audience for a bunch of folks allegedly looking for a cross between 'Star Wars' and some shoot-em-up video game come to life! Whew!
As for whoever came up with the nitro thing as the "cure" [!?] for solving the crevasse ... Read More
Rating: - Worst Movie Involving Mt Climbing ever.. Into Thin Air a distant second
The only interesting moment in this movie is the rock climbing scene in the begining where Dad insists that the Son cut him lose to save his kids.
I am stunned Ed Viesters allowed himself to be part of this project. I mean, common, you copter up to 22k feet to start a climb? You would be unconcious in 10 mins. Trapped in a cravase? Well, bring up some nitroglycerin to get me out buddy... explode things above my head.
OK.. one great line.... when the supplier mentions his girlfriend is "French-Canadian. When she is Canadian, she can be quite nice. Today she is obviously French."
A complete waste of film and time...
Rating: - pretty man!
I'm not sure they got this film right. The heart throb guy is very pretty. The wealthy guy is evil. The sister is stupid and should have been left to die anyway. The scary man would like to find his wifey-popsicle. The Mountain was big but the air was a bit blowey, the snow was warm and inside the mountain it was very very cosy (they even had drugs 'n all!) The one thing I am sure that they got right was the American psyche that the way forward in saving stupid people's lives is to go in with high explosives and blow everything up. Who said life doesn't imitate art.
I have got to say though that I really enjoyed this film. I watched it for free on tv but to make sure as little revenue gets back to the producers etc, I am going to boycot all the products that were advertised during its screening. BTW. The two stars are for the pretty guy playing being pretty very well.
Rating: - Super SOUND - Super Action
That movie REALLY boosts sound into another dimention......HD sound is over the edge......It is considered to be one of my BEST movies of ALL time!!!!
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- Far fetched even as 'known' Hollywood fiction! 
- pretty man!
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