Everest is the closest I’ll ever get to scaling the world’s largest mountain for those of us who do not even like to sit in the nosebleed seats in a theater for fear of toppling the orchestra pit.
Part IMAX documentary about nature and part of a Hollywood disaster movie effectively conveys what it feels like to climb the mountain, the hours and days spent in hikes acclimated in practice, and the effects of Physical punishment that accompany each subsequent change of altitude.
A certain type of person wants to risk their life and the stress of their relationships and emptying their savings just to go through the physical and psychological torment of climbing Mount Everest is needed.
And while this film explains the pain, do not do a good job of explaining why worth it. At one point, a journalist played by House of Cards’ Michael Kelly asks a group of climbers, “Why Everest?” And gets a series of non-responses; if you get it, you get it. And if it does, this exciting story of survival might feel more like a death march.
Everest features a who’s who of the actors in black and scruffy kind, including Terminator: Genesis’ Jason Clarke and Rob Hall, a friendly, reassuring Zealander whose company, Adventure Consultants, guides climbers to the summit of Everest for $ 65,000 each one.
The beginning of the film, which dramatized the disastrous rise in May 1996 documented in Jon Krakauer’s book Into Thin Air-It emphasizes three team members: Doug (John Hawkes), a postman struggling in his second attempt; Beck (Josh Brolin), a Texas-slow speech; and Yasuko (Naoko Mori), a Japanese woman who has climbed six of the highest mountains in the world.
(Everest will be his seventh.) Under the principle of reality TV, the amount of time dedicated to humanizing the display of these characters means that they will lose either (die) or gain (emerge as a hero) at the end of the film. This principle is not wrong.
Hall has become notorious among his most macho counterparts, represented here by reckless hippie Scott Fischer (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Russian Anatoli Boukreev hoarse (Ingvar Sigurðsson). The other guides feel that Rob is cheapening the experience of Everest climbers by grazing weak that otherwise would not be able to reach the top.
But after some persuasion from Rob Scott and Anatoli agreed to cooperate, and the three teams made their final ascent on 10 May 1996. This climb starts with victory in an emotional scene where climbers plant their flags on the famous peak.
But then disaster strikes, and oh, how they hit and hit and hit again as a monster snowstorm strands several climbers on the mountaintop.
Blowing snow and cold weather gear brand that is in front of which the obscure points in mortal danger, a director Baltasar Kormákur problem skillfully resolved as a field of “Mom” Helen (Emily Watson), whose radio conversations help viewers follow who is where and in what state.
At first, Everest is unbearably tense with many different insecure climbers. But as the real consequences of the disaster become clear, that tension is dissolved in pummeling sadness amid tearful goodbyes and frozen corpses.
The best argument in favor of what otherwise would be a cruel sense without loss of life is the views of the mountains to the beautiful heart-stopping radicals. (See this in IMAX if you can.) After a shot of small helicopter hikers crossing a flimsy bridge rope over a huge canyon, Everest has a handful of spectacular shots that show how small climbers really are, usually by the pan a team fighting to hikers vast, craggy beneath them.
But the shots are relatively few, and one of the most effective uses of IMAX comes early in the film when Beck almost fell into an abyss of deep ice terribly when trying to cross a rickety ladder. So while the mountain is known as a character in his own right, “The mountain makes its own weather,” Rob says at one point: his imposing physical presence is ultimately eclipsed by the human drama. Maybe if we had fewer suffering experienced climbers and more from the majesty of the mountains, their sacrifices would be easier to understand.
Verdict: ★★★★
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