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Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 4030521304444
Format: PAL
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 5.1UrduOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 5.1EnglishSubtitledGermanSubtitledTurkishSubtitled
MPN: 0330444
Region Code: 2
Release Date: February 20, 2007
Theatrical Release Date: December 08, 2000
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
Finally, 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 cliché 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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Rating:  -
Peter (Chris O'Donnell) and Annie (Robin Tunney) are brother and sister who once shared a tragic mountain climbing experience. Since then, Peter has refused to climb but Annie gets lured into climbing K-2 with a novice billionaire. (Of course) they need rescuing and (of course) Peter leads the way.
This movie uses every mountain climbing cliché in the book and is so predictable, it's pathetic. After just minutes we know where the story is going and sure enough, it goes there. There ... Read More
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Vertical Limit could have been a great movie, if only the script had been reworked and reworked again to remove its more ludicrous elements and to replace them with thought provoking dialogue, believable predicaments, and serious character development. For viewers hoping to find an intelligent movie pitting daring yet frail humans against the unforgiving forces of nature, this is not it. The central premise of the movie is excellent. A boorish billionaire bribes and bullies a crack team of mountaineers ... Read More
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When you think a movie can't possibly get any more asinine, this one does. Amazingly bad script with totally ridiculous action scenes. What do you do when climbers are trapped on a mountain? You try to rescue them by carrying liquid nitro-glycerin up the mountain. And you take three different routes, including one which requires you to leap across a 30 foot span. And there's more idiocy - much, much more. On the positive side, the movie is quite funny (although unintentionally). The only reason I rate ... Read More
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The intensity of high altitude mountaineering is obviously not exciting enough for the Hollywood mentality, so the plot needed to be thickened. The streets of LA would have been a better scene for this plot, but I did enjoy the cinematography. The characters were also fairly interesting, and I might have enjoyed it more if I didn't understand the sport.Dancing on the Edge of an Endangered Planet
Rating:  -
When I saw this shortly after it came out on VHS (and later, this DVD), it got high marks just for the spectacular sound alone. It had some of the best rear-speaker sound I had ever heard. It was a showpiece for surround-sound systems at the time.
The movie is interesting with it's main fault being a common one: overdone action at the end. Along the way, however, it has many almost jaw-dropping scenes and some spectacular mountain scenery which still looks great on the sharp DVD transfer. I"m holding ... Read More
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