The Summit
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  • Summary: In August, 2008, 18 mountain climbers reached the top of K2. 48 hours later, 11 people were dead. While memorials paid tribute to those killed, there were also condemnations about ‘the why.' Why do these athletes risk everything to reach a place humans are simply not meant to go? With breaththtaking cinematography and jaw dropping reenactments based on the testimony of those who survived the climb, this thrilling film is about the very nature of adventure in the modern world. [IFC Films]… Expand

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  1. Positive: 9 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 14
  3. Negative: 0 out of 14
  1. Portland Oregonian
    Reviewed by: Marc Mohan
    Oct 10, 2013
    83
    The Summit does an amazing job of putting you on the mountain, making it one of the most terrifying horror films a climber or an acrophobe could ever see.
  2. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Neil Genzlinger
    Oct 3, 2013
    80
    The film over all is a pulse-pounding success.
  3. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kenneth Turan
    Oct 3, 2013
    80
    The Summit tells a multifaceted story that deals with more than the expected peril and exhilaration of adventure tales. Here you'll find love, fear and forgiveness, personality conflicts and cultural differences, even mysteries that have stubbornly resisted solving.
  4. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Michael O'Sullivan
    Oct 10, 2013
    63
    Because The Summit jumps around in time and because the events on the mountain happened over two days and at locations often far apart, the already garbled chronology of deaths is made even more confusing.
  5. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Steven Rea
    Oct 11, 2013
    63
    There is a lot of finger-pointing. Assertions are made, theories offered, but not much in the way of certainty.
  6. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Joe Neumaier
    Oct 3, 2013
    60
    Interviews with survivors fill us in on the personalities of the lost, but the background of K2, with archival footage from 1954, is equally gripping.
  7. Arizona Republic
    Reviewed by: Randy Cordova
    Oct 10, 2013
    40
    Nick Ryan’s documentary looks at the disaster by using interviews, actual footage and re-enactments. The latter move undercuts some of the movie’s authenticity. Granted, there probably wasn’t another way to film it, but it muddies the film’s sense of truth.

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