A good movie

In my opinion, Baltasar Kormákur has a rather mixed track-record as a director but this movie sounded really intriguing and, on top of that, they managed to get a impressive cast for this movie. Anyway, it was a really ambitious project and it thought that most of it worked pretty well. Indeed, I have always been fascinated with movies dealing with climbing, it is probably due to the fact that I'm afraid of heights but, even so, there something actually spellbinding to see some people risking their life just to get on the top of a mountain. Maybe there is also a little bit of sadism involved as well. Anyway, I especially enjoyed the realistic approach they chose for this movie but I'm afraid it never reached the level of 'Touching the Void', still by far the best movie in this genre. I guess the main problem was that, even though they had a really neat cast, there were just too many characters and,  as a result, none of them was properly developed. I mean, you basically have such actresses like Keira Knightley, Robin Wright and Emily Watson who shows up from time to time just to look worried when they answer their phone. It's like the characters played by Jake Gyllenhaal, Josh Brolin and Sam Worthington, I kept expecting to learn something about these guys but it never happened as the story never spends more than 2 minutes on one single character. As a result, you never get the opportunity to really care about these men and what they went through. Still, in spite of its flaws, I think it is one of the best movies in this genre and I think it is definitely worth a look.

7/10