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Summary: Forget Plot, enjoy the S/Fx
Review: If you need a convincing, well crafted plot line, stay away. If you can put the trite, contrived story behind you and just watch it for the action sequences and special effects, you'll do fine. Don't miss the first five minutes, and try to ignore the obvious digital processing, just pretend you're watching a real movie and prepare to be thrilled. I knew something was wrong with the script when the bad guy is getting ready to climb K2, and says, "I'm leaving Monday and hope to be back here by Wednesday"..this from Base Camp. Right. Three days up and back. Oh well. K2 and climbing enthusiasts will get a chuckle from the bonehead moves and idiot script lines, but they didn't make this movie for climbers, they made it for regular folk. Go see it, you might just enjoy it. But don't expect a classic.
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Summary: CHILLING, THRILLING, FROST BITING, EYE PIERCING MACHINE!
Review: VERTICAL LIMIT is the story of a group of climbers setting their ultimate goal- climbing K2... After the emotional death of a pair of siblings' father on a mountain, the two (Chris O'Donnell-Batman & Robin, Robin Tunney- End of Days) haven't spoken. A billionaire climber (Bill Paxton- Titanic, True Lies) is about to join the icy road to death with (Robin Tunney) and the group as they face man-vs.-nature in this compelling: way up high-don't fall off or die suspense drama.The movie was deascent and was giving you that icy chill it wanted to give you- but I was hoping for more action than what I saw. Maybe it's because the theatrical trailer (which I saw attached to The 6th Day and The Patriot (video) ) made it seem that way. Though this is Martin Campbell's (Director of Goldeneye, Mask of Zorro, -Next Project- Zorro Unmasked) best film yet, I was hoping for lots of hanging off cliffs and even more explosions. It was a good film as it is, it contains action and explosive boiling ice power that I recommend to everyone. Rated PG-13 (Some Language, Action Violence, Intense Death Sequences) 122 min
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Summary: boring, bad acting, cool effects
Review: Vertical limit, fits in the catagory of Mission to Mars. There's no suspension at all, the acting is horrible, but the effects and stunts are great. How stupid can you be, falling in a cave, being trapped for 2 days and when you're almost dead, you decide to take action to get out. I'm a great fan of Bill Paxton, but this movie is really under his acting capabilities. If you expect a Cliffhanger 2, don't go. If like cool effects and stunts, but no story at all, you'll have a very good time
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Summary: A snow-white fake...
Review: After reading all the "sensational" and "great"- style reviews below, it made me sad to understand how little (sometimes) audience requires to start ooh-ing and aah-ing and saying "Yeah, it was a good movie!". Actually, it wasn't!!! Indeed, making a movie about natural phenomena requires excellent CGIs and camera work. These components are over-abundant in Vertical Limit. However, to make a good movie it also requires a plausible plot and credible actors' performance. In this movie the gape between these both is abyssal. Yes, O'Donell is a handsome guy, but even his luminous blue eyes and flashing 1000-buck smile can't overshadow lack of heart everyone has put into this movie (and O'Donell's is the most bearable performance). The girl cast for his sister is a laugh: the lack of any "family" ties and "sisterly" feelings is evident from the first scene, she simply can't act (The best she could get was coughing her throat off faking emphysema)! Not to mention that she does not look an inch an alpinist, but a kindergarten nurse. Other characters were not better: a couple of kick-off crazy brothers thrown in just to squeeze a weak smile at their crude jokes from yawning audience. A shapely medical nurse looking as if she just left a beauty parlor. A preposterous AA-looking outcast of an alpinist bearing his "dark and sad" (and, in the end, primitive) secret. And guess who was the best candidate for a villain? Of course, the one who has sky-fly ambitions. Actually he didn't seem despicable enough, that's why some cheap tricks were added to despoil his image for the audience. The plot is spring-snow thin, but you've probably read what the movie's about. But some moments are "superb": 1)The Pakistani general brotherly sharing explosives with the alpinists - it is a sample of generosity. 2) Nitroglycerin that is supposed to blow up from the slightest tremble is safely carried by the alpinists on their backs. When they use it to free their friends, against any laws of physics, it doesn't blow their roofs off and doesn't cause another avalanche... These and other "plot twists" make you chuckle regularly. If you're in just for sights of beautiful nature - watch this movie. In other ways it remains a half-baked product for those who stubbornly refuses to believe in laws of logics and human physiology. 2 STARS! I'd add one more for O'Donell's male charm.
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Summary: Amazing
Review: This is a movie for action lovers and people who love thrill rides. I saw this movie with my girlfriend, and she didn't like it. She didn't like it because it was not the type of movie that makes life seem absolutely wonderful. This movie has a morbid undertone due to the circumstances that the characters endure. But you will love the way the characters fight the morbid thought of death. Vertical Limit is more about hope and bravery. I loved the twists of plot in there too. Specifically the NITROGLYCERINE. Sounds dangerous,huh? If you are looking for a roller coaster ride of thrills and dark comedy, then check this movie out. But if you want an uplifting movie,like my girlfriend, check out Charlie's Angels.
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Summary: Looking at a different angle to this movie
Review: This show starts off with an intriguing plot. Annie(Robin Turney) and Peter(Chris O'Donnel) happily singing while mountain climbing. A mishappening then took away the life of their father, has changed every part of their life. Years later, Annie becomes one of the best mountain climbers while Peter never climbs again.Basically, I personally feel that this show has its own meaning. And the lost of a father or loved ones can actually impact a person's life. So treasure it and live your life to the fullest, if that's what the director is trying to convey. Another plot in this story also challenge the moral value of right and wrong. In particular, where Peter cut off the rope of his father. Whether is it right or wrong for him to do so, it actually depends on the individual's rationale. However, the father sacrifies by using the theory of the greatest number for the greatest survival. All in all, the show is entertaining but dragged on too long because of various subplots. However, I would definitely recommend this show for the reasons pointed out above. Have a pleasant viewing !
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Summary: Action packed thrill ride you won't forget
Review: Many people want to try to over analyze this movie and say that is falls short of what they expected. I am here to say that they must have been watching another movie because VL is packed with breathtaking scenes and edge of your seat action. For all those critics that say there are unrealistic scenes in this movie, I will pose one question to them, how many of us really know what it's like to climb and experience K2??? At least the cast and crew filmed this movie on K2 and tried to make it as realistic as possible. Can you remember an action movie that didn't overdramatize events to make a better film? Take my advice, this is a can't miss way to spend 7 bucks at the theater and as soon as it hits DVD, I will own it.
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Summary: Plenty of action, some over the top though
Review: The problem with this movie was the action was over the top and totally unrealistic. Not to mention some very cliche acting in basically every life or death scene (which seemed like the whole movie). There is nothing original here aside from some cool effects shots. The story is a combination of numerous other movies, but still, it is a fun movie to see. Its a good flick to see if you have nothing better to do.
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Summary: A mountainous waste of time
Review: I am annoyed with myself for going, and embarassed for inviting friends to this movie. Thinking about the time wasted watching it, I would just as soon like to forget about it and say - the less said about this movie the better. That however is not a fair review. Not fair only because it doesn't provide readers with any information. So gritting my teeth, I reflect back on Vertical Limit. Opening scene. A family of mountaineers are on a sheer rock face. The father Royce Garrett and his son Peter (Chris O'Donnell) and daughter Annie (Robin Tunney) are climbing as a team, when an accident leaves them in peril. All three are dangling by a single lifeline. As the clamp holding them all in place begins to slip, Peter is forced into making a terrible choice. Save himself and Annie by cutting loose the extra weight of his father or do nothing and all three die. Against the screams of his sister not to do it and at the urging of his father, who insists it is the only choice, Peter cuts dad loose. He plummets hundreds of feet and we witness him thudding into the ground below. Needless to say this destroys the close relationship between Annie and Peter. The movie is not about mountains, it's about relationships. So says the director - Martin Campbell and it very obvious what the story here is about - the reconciliation between Peter and Annie. In working out this reconciliation we are taken up the mountain with a cast of characters that are shallow and uninteristing. After a lot of climbing, falling, dangling and exploding we get the resolution. Oh, along the way Peter gets to do it again. Cut loose another couple of people, sending them plunging down a crevasse. What is the symbolism here? Is it that one of them is a father figure, and in the second cutting of the cord with this person, for the same reason as the first time, saving his and Annie's life, Peter and Annie can let go their guilt and achieve reconciliation? Who knows?, but It doesn't matter because by now you will be so numbed by the poor acting and the cliched and stereotypical characters that you won't care if the whole lot of them fall off the mountain. Use this line from the movie when you next want to question someone's intelligence. 'One hundred thousand sperm and you were the fastest?' There, that is it.!. This oneliner is the only memorable thing from the whole mess. I question my own intelligence for sitting through Vertical Limit.
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Summary: K-2
Review: A high-adrenaline tale of a young climber who must launch a treacherous and extrodinary rescue effort to K-2, the world's 2nd highest peak, to save his sister and her summit team in a race against time.
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