Everest
Director: Baltasar Kormákur.
Synopsis
Several groups of mountaineer tourists, one of which is led by soon-to-be-new-father Clarke, attempt to scale the peak of Everest, but struggle against the odds after a storm hits. Down at base camp, a terrified Watson coordinates the rescue efforts.
Review by @reelreviewer
An exhilarating, action-packed roller-coaster trek both up and down the titular mountain. In fact, it is all neatly separated into the two halves of this journey...and coming back down is just as fraught as going up.
Icelandic director Kormákur is as good a man as any to helm a film set in the awesome, frigid beauty of mountainous Asia. A pity he wasn't able to properly utilise the 3D technology to better showcase it's eye-popping terrain.
Despite the obvious and deliberate lack of emotional empathy with the characters, there are some fantastic, stand-out performances. Tellingly, they are mostly from the women (Emily Watson and Keira Knightley, take a bow), but Josh Brolin also scores as an indestructible wealthy American tourist who is on a mission to prove himself as his marriage back home crumbles.
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