![]() ![]() The most vivid scene of the movie turned out to be shown in the trailer (crevasse ladder). The drama feels a bit out of place when other participants dying with little or no attention. The whole day of May 11 is clumsy and hardly could be learned from the movie, on the summit the story switches to Rob completely and gets distractingly touchy-feely then slowly turning into the aftermath. But it doesn't matter anyways as when the masks put on it's really hard to follow who is who and and their position on the mountain, especially on descending. For some reason, Scott Fisher, being a smart capable mountaineer is shown as a careless hippie-like person, Anatoli Boukreev as a cliché tough Russian playing garmon in a tent, Beck Weathers as a hardly-realistic guy from Texas. The characters developing is limited to a couple of sentences excluding Rob Hall and Beck Weathers what makes others a little more than forgettable 'guys who die first'. With a fast start you expect some eventful action to follow but there's nothing like that. ![]() ![]() It is just somehow not working as a single piece. But the good things first: stunning scenery, overall tension and a few really great scenes make this movie worth watching without a doubt. It seems like they tried to make a disaster, drama and documentary stories at the same time but failed to develop any of that properly. I think the main problem with this movie is a loose focus. ![]()
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