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| Vertical Limit [Region 2] | ![Vertical Limit [Region 2]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51MXT5RQNQL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | Director: Martin Campbell
Actors: Chris O'donnell, Robin Tunney, Stuart Wilson (ii), Augie Davis, Temuera Morrison
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  183 reviews
Sales Rank: 203686
Format: Pal
Languages: English (Original Language), Urdu (Original Language)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5035822044432
ASIN: B00005AVV5
Theatrical Release Date: December 8, 2000
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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 cliche 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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 Far fetched even as 'known' Hollywood fiction! November 5, 2008
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 trapped problem or those wild hand/feet moves in a sort of rope and ice axe follies kind of thing [and 'this' after being airlifted to an altitude where, in real life, the whole party would have been finished forthwith since even the best of the best when it comes to high altitude tolerance and endurance MUST first acclimatize and this takes 'weeks', not hours!] , anyway, the nitro 'cure' had to be the icing on the farce, as it were, and I would hardly suggest that this was a movie for, as one reviewer put it, the "REI crowd" [sic] as much as for the "Yo! Gimme some action, man, ANY action, especially those visuals" crowd.
And this too, on the personal side -- the cameo of real-life and world class climber, Doc Ed Viesturs, where his 'Hollywood' scripted line in the movie is scripted along the lines of, "You don't send six to rescue two" [during a mountain storm] yet was it not Doc Viesturs [** Ed holds a DVM credential] ET AL who in real life was there on Everest in '96 when Doc Beck Weathers [** see my review of the Everest 1996 IMAX film] needed the helping hand getting back to C1 for the helicopter rescue attempt! And got it! As for K2 itself, it's hardly literary rhetoric that gives K2 the moniker of 'savage' and/or 'killer' mountain as its most recent victims [11 climbers] tragically demonstrated on August 1, 2008 when, besides climber falls, a serac fell. For those into the climbing community, rock or Alpine versions, catch the 12/08 issue of "Rock and Ice" magazine and the Freddie Wilkinson piece, "Perfect Chaos" [page 56], on the K2 disaster. Good piece. No finger pointing but more so letting the reader make the call.
Doc Tony
Worst Movie Involving Mt Climbing ever.. Into Thin Air a distant second September 11, 2008
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...
 pretty man! August 27, 2008
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.
 Super SOUND - Super Action August 24, 2008
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!!!!
Lose yourself in this movie! June 11, 2008
What a great escape while watching true suspense. The beautiful mountains they have in this movie are amazing. In addition, learning another whole world of mountain climbing and the crazy lengths they go to - all to climb to the top.
A movie to own and watch over and over!
Merna Throne
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