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80Pulls off thrilling stunts that will leave you a sweaty-palmed mess. It's top-tier movie escapism.
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80Possibly the most suspense-charged mountain-climbing movie ever made.
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75Strong performances, particularly by Glenn as the hard-bitten climber with a private agenda, Vertical Limit delivers.
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OK, so some of the scenes are a sham, but the mountain of suspense and adventure is enough to keep you captivated.
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75Vertical Limit is like riding a roller coaster for two hours. First it's frighteningly exciting. Then it's mind-numbing
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70Vertical Limit, despite its weaknesses, finds the right director in Martin Campbell to energize this high-altitude thriller.
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69A shell of a film. It's a stripped-down and blown-out thriller than can only be measured by the sum of its action sequences.
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67By laying on disasters with a trowel, misses the chance to sweep us up into a more elegant fantasy of primitive mountaintop terror.
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63If you were forced to judge it simply on its action-movie visual and technical elements, you'd have to count it a roaring success... . But if you lay aside that action and watch the people instead, it's a morass of dimwitted family crises and hack action-movie cliches.
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63One of the most thrilling - and authentic - mountain-climbing films in recent memory. Unfortunately, it's also burdened by one of those every-line-a-wretched-cliché Hollywood screenplays.
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63The action scenes in Vertical Limit take cliffhanging to the highest peaks of excitement. It's a shame the story keeps dragging us down to sea level.
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60There is one reason, and only one, for anyone to check out Vertical Limit. The hanging-by-a-fingernail mountain-climbing sequences are spectacular.
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60Remains exciting as long as it stays on the mountains.
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50The movie has moments of breathtaking suspense, at least until it lapses into cartoonish implausibility in the second half. With good acting and good dialogue it might actually have been a good picture.
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50A climbing thriller whose plot may be on thin ice but whose action sequences are stunning.
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50The film is well shot and has titillating action without a single persuasive emotion.
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50Relentless parade of tragedy.
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50Vertical Limit has its share of intrigue, but there ain't no mountain high enough to make O'Donnell look deep.
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40Wants to be a dizzy, precarious thrill ride. Glenn provides the only gravity that doesn't seem dull, literal and earthbound.
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40A thriller that, at its best, has the gooney absurdity of an old Saturday-afternoon movie serial.
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40Vertical Limit's real problem is its digitized sheen. Every shot seems to have been CGI-enhanced, so the movie has an overpasteurized, Velveeta-like glow -- processed movie food.
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40Vertical Limit represents another kind of propaganda--namely the current Hollywood notion that the bigger and louder and longer a movie is, the more people will want to see it, even if that means getting numbed before your popcorn's cold.
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40So wound up in its own bungee cords, it leaves itself hopelessly tied in knots.
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38Avalanches are nothing compared to the deadening touch of the stereotyping and audience-insulting simplicities in the scenic but brain-dead Vertical Limit.
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33One of the most wearisome "high adrenaline" movies to come along in a while.
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30A shallow yet empty action extravaganza.
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20It's a huge, bloated, hulking movie.
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20The characters are as thin as the air at 26,000 feet, and the story as silly as anyone willing to assault K2 in a punishing blizzard.
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20This asthma-inducing adventure set on K2 starts out seeming as if its corny storytelling and phony-looking settings were designed to show that it's as much about genre-movie conventions as anything else.
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TravisZ.7It was good, regardless of what others may think. even though i dont think, it was stil good. well pretty good.