Having just seen this i am having this feeling like this movie really tried, but something was just missing.
The movie is about Peter and Annie Garrett, as young claimers they lost their father in a horrible accident, since that they have lost the contact to each other and have gone their seperate ways, as in faith they meet at the foot of the mountain, k2, Peter is working with the national geographic while Annie, now a famous claimer, is about to go for the top of k2 with a rich business man who wants to be on the top to make commercial for his new company. And OF course something a bound to go wrong.
By saying that i can say already now the movie is rather predictable and there are a lot of very clear set-ups and same amount of pays offs, and that is okay, problem generally is that most of these accidents happens becuase the participants of the story are so damn stupid at times, especially handling their explosives.
The movie doesn't make you wanna byte your nails, it lacks realism and suspense, it's a decent claiming movie with some beautiful scenery and cinematography, which is what keeps the movie alive a long way, although i wish they had spend more time with it, the opening scene has breath taking scenery though.
There doesn't come many movies of this exact genre, actually only ones i can think of is Cliffhanger and Touching The Void, having only seen Cliffhanger i think that one too lacked realism, but at least that one was filled with suspense. Now i'm looking forward to see if Touching The Void manage to combine those things into a good "cliff hanger" movie, it sure looks promising, i can't wait.
The movie is about Peter and Annie Garrett, as young claimers they lost their father in a horrible accident, since that they have lost the contact to each other and have gone their seperate ways, as in faith they meet at the foot of the mountain, k2, Peter is working with the national geographic while Annie, now a famous claimer, is about to go for the top of k2 with a rich business man who wants to be on the top to make commercial for his new company. And OF course something a bound to go wrong.
By saying that i can say already now the movie is rather predictable and there are a lot of very clear set-ups and same amount of pays offs, and that is okay, problem generally is that most of these accidents happens becuase the participants of the story are so damn stupid at times, especially handling their explosives.
The movie doesn't make you wanna byte your nails, it lacks realism and suspense, it's a decent claiming movie with some beautiful scenery and cinematography, which is what keeps the movie alive a long way, although i wish they had spend more time with it, the opening scene has breath taking scenery though.
There doesn't come many movies of this exact genre, actually only ones i can think of is Cliffhanger and Touching The Void, having only seen Cliffhanger i think that one too lacked realism, but at least that one was filled with suspense. Now i'm looking forward to see if Touching The Void manage to combine those things into a good "cliff hanger" movie, it sure looks promising, i can't wait.