Everest

Name: Everest
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, Thriller
Released: September 18, 2015
Duration: 121 min
Rating: 64

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Universal Pictures | Release Date: September 18, 2015 | PG-13

Summary: Inspired by the incredible events surrounding a treacherous attempt to reach the summit of the world’s highest mountain, Everest documents the awe-inspiring journey of two different expeditions challenged beyond their limits by one of the fiercest snowstorms ever encountered by mankind. Their mettle tested by the harshest of elements foundInspired by the incredible events surrounding a treacherous attempt to reach the summit of the world’s highest mountain, Everest documents the awe-inspiring journey of two different expeditions challenged beyond their limits by one of the fiercest snowstorms ever encountered by mankind. Their mettle tested by the harshest of elements found on the planet, the climbers will face nearly impossible obstacles as a lifelong obsession becomes a breathtaking struggle for survival.… Expand

Director: Baltasar Kormákur

Genre(s): Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, Thriller

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 121 min

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Steve Davis

Sep 17, 2015

This is a movie you feel deeply in the pit of your stomach. Sometimes, it literally hurts to watch it. Read full review

Mike Scott

Sep 18, 2015

It succeeds wonderfully, offering moviegoers a rare taste of rarified air -- and as compelling an argument as you can make for seeing a movie writ large on the oversized screen of an actual movie theater. Read full review

Kate Taylor

Sep 18, 2015

There is no tragic hero here; there is no overarching explanation, but a movie that offered either of those would seem pretty pat. Take it or leave, Everest is just there. Read full review

The Playlist Jessica Kiang

Sep 2, 2015

Salvatore Totino's crisp 3D photography and Kormakur's way with a clear, fluid, thrilling action sequence show off the mountain in immensely impressive ways. But the humans involved get short shrift. Read full review

Michael Phillips

Sep 17, 2015

A fairly good, extremely grueling movie as far as it goes — tracks the true-life fortunes of a battered group of climbers to the highest place on Earth. Yet somehow it doesn't go far enough. Read full review

Stephanie Zacharek

Sep 15, 2015

Everest is visually splendid, though it loses a few points for its murkiness in rendering its main characters as distinct individuals. Read full review

Joe Morgenstern

Sep 17, 2015

The director was Baltasar Kormákur, a gifted filmmaker from Iceland who shouldn’t be blamed for a case of industrial filmmaking gone wrong — the culprits in elaborate clunkers like this are usually the producers and the studios. Read full review

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toronto905

Sep 28, 2015

Everest soars high to great heights, thanks to terrific performances, great and spectacular visual effects, and research to make history come back to life. It would have been better if the film was released on May 2016, 20 years after the disaster. Thanks to 3D VFX and groundbreaking, newEverest soars high to great heights, thanks to terrific performances, great and spectacular visual effects, and research to make history come back to life. It would have been better if the film was released on May 2016, 20 years after the disaster. Thanks to 3D VFX and groundbreaking, new generation computer generated imagery, it even makes the audience feel like mountain climbers crossing tough terrain to achieve the near impossible with powerful portrayal of love, loss, bravery and friendship through the viewers eyes.… Expand

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KizerCritic

Oct 18, 2015

If your looking for a convenient plot then turn around and walk into Pan because this film is hard to watch at times. This film is defies film stereo types in what is probably the most depressing, grim and just straight up hard to watch movie to come out this year. The lead in this film isIf your looking for a convenient plot then turn around and walk into Pan because this film is hard to watch at times. This film is defies film stereo types in what is probably the most depressing, grim and just straight up hard to watch movie to come out this year. The lead in this film is shared by both Jason Clark and Mount Everest itself. Jason Clark kills it as Rob Hall and shows no flaws in what might be an Oscar contending performance. Support was equally as impressive with people like Jake Gyllenhaal, Josh Brolin, Keira Knightley and Sam Worthington. Josh Brolin was easily the strongest of the supporting cast although like i said they were all very good. The only place this movie lacks is in developing the relationship between Rob Hall(Jason Clark) and his wife Jan Arnold (Keira Knightley). Now lets get to Mount Everest in the film because it is both the most beautiful and terrifying thing about this movie. They did a great job of outlining the dangers of this beast but also showing off its beauty. Overall a great film and a must watch.… Expand

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DawdlingPoet

Nov 22, 2021

This is an action/adventure film, with themes covered including mountain climbing, blizzards, expedition and survival. I quite liked the start of the film, which gives a good background to the impending situation, introducing us to the various characters, their travels in preparation of theThis is an action/adventure film, with themes covered including mountain climbing, blizzards, expedition and survival. I quite liked the start of the film, which gives a good background to the impending situation, introducing us to the various characters, their travels in preparation of the Everest climb. The pace was neither especially fast nor achingly slow to start with, although I suppose if you tend to be impatient for the more extreme situations to be portrayed early on then you may find it a bit slow due to the depiction of the general backstory to the expedition but regardless, I didn't find it entirely boring or dull. I liked that we were given glimpses in to one of the climbers family, making us feel more attached to them, hence there's a good amount of characterisation.

There were some really good landscape shots featured at times, with some impressive ariel photography capturing the rough and bleak terrain the expedition group faced, so I liked the cinematography. I'd say that this film very much focusses on the human aspect of adventure explorers, the vulnerabilities and consequences of chasing after such a lofty goal as to climb such an inhospitable place. I suppose its inevitable that any such survival/disaster oriented film would focus on this but I felt that this film was particularly highlighting the humanity aspects, the day to day issues and challenges any person, or people, endeavoring such a task would face.

Cast wise, the main character Rob Hall is played by Jason Clarke. He seems quite sprightly and optimistic, if a little apprehensive about their ultimate goal, though trying not to show it. Meanwhile, John Hawkes plays Doug Hansen, Martin Henderson plays Andy 'Harold' Harris and Simon Harrison, who plays Tim Madsen. Perhaps more well known members include Emily Watson, who plays Helen Wilton, Keira Knightley as Jan Hall, Robs other half back at home, Hosh Brolen as Beck Weathers and Jake Gyllenhaal as Scott Fischer. I found myself very much rooting for the various members of the expedition. The only performance that I felt really stood out to me was Emily Watson as Helen, who is quite a motherly type figure, helping to run the base camp and keeping in touch with those who have ventured further, higher up the mountain. You could really see the worry and concern she had for members of the expedition and her determination to keep them in touch with their loved ones etc. Content wise, the film features quite a strong sense of threat and peril, mostly from just before half way through the film (close to 50 minutes or so after the film starts (as I say, it does have a fairly long start up/build up but it isn't uninteresting never the less) and could be particularly frightening towards the end, due to the depictions of people suffering from various bodily/health conditions, the toll such a journey has had on all involved. There are scenes which include an element of violence, although its mostly violence in terms of mother nature inflicting on those fighting through their conditions, rather than, say, violence perpetuated from one person to another. Inevitably, the film deals with the concept of death and survival, which some viewers may find a bit dark and grim but otherwise, there's little obvious to mention or warn of - there's barely any strong language present. There are ocassional scenes featuring characters taking or injecting drugs but these are for legitimate (medical) reasons. The film has been given a 12 rating to reflect this.

I found myself quite gripped towards the end of the film, when anything could happen and I found myself quite emotionally attached to various people, for various reasons. I felt my heart go out to Robs wife, Jan, worrying due to lack of contact and the people running the very important base camp, who are all, in one way or another, at the mercy of mother nature, as much as the carious expedition members are. I won't provide any potential spoilers - if you really want to know what happened, then I imagine you can find out the information online elsewhere but I found the film really quite tense and engrossing towards the end and I think it wouldn't necessarily have had that impact, or certainly not to the same extent, had it not been for the moderately slow build up at the start of the film.

Yes. I thought this was a good film, with some impressive cinematography and a good amount of characterisation, it kept me watching and knowing that its based on a true story made it all the more interesting to me. Its, inevitably a bit grim at times but for the most part its a worthy watch.… Expand

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tjman09

Sep 28, 2015

Everest is beautiful, well acted, and exciting, but reverts to clichés and lacks characters to care about. All movies based on a true story, about fighting the weather has the opportunity to be great. The premise lends itself to make an engrossing, emotionally gripping, and sometimes heartEverest is beautiful, well acted, and exciting, but reverts to clichés and lacks characters to care about. All movies based on a true story, about fighting the weather has the opportunity to be great. The premise lends itself to make an engrossing, emotionally gripping, and sometimes heart wrenching story. However Everest, lacks the character development necessary to be all of these things. The cinematography is stunning, and the actors are great, but a small piece is missing, and thus I feel the characters are cliches, that you struggle to feel for. To make an example, when I watch Casino, at the end when Joe Pesci's character dies, I get emotional, despite that the character is a murderer. I never felt truly emotional about the struggles of any of the characters in this film. Some characters die, and the way you know is you see a frozen corpse, there isn't an emotional moment for the character or the audience. In the end the film, I enjoyed the film, and it is beautiful, and does a lot of things well, but I can't help feeling they missed the mark.… Expand

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Broyax

Mar 13, 2018

"Les cons, ça ose tout" disait Michel Audiard et c'est vrai que ce dicton, ces paroles de sage même, ne se sont jamais démenties. La preuve en est avec ces cons qui vont faire les zouaves à plus 8 km de haut : c'est très dangereux, très pénible et ça ne sert strictement à rien. C'est le"Les cons, ça ose tout" disait Michel Audiard et c'est vrai que ce dicton, ces paroles de sage même, ne se sont jamais démenties. La preuve en est avec ces cons qui vont faire les zouaves à plus 8 km de haut : c'est très dangereux, très pénible et ça ne sert strictement à rien. C'est le concours de celui qui a la plus grosse -même les nanas y vont, je veux dire les connes- pas pour la gloire non, mais pour l'orgueil et la vanité, un con-cours quoi.

Involontairement, ce film "Everest" dresse un portrait accablant de la bêtise internationale puisque régulièrement des cons vont clamser là-haut. Je dis bien involontairement, à l'insu de son plein gré, car le film est un éloge au "courage" ou plutôt à l'audace des cons qui osent tout mais au premier degré (si j'ose dire) ça devient du courage et de l'héroïsme et patati et patata avec bien entendu les violons et la guimauve qui vont avec.

Alors les morts restent les morts mais certains reviennent quand même bien qu'un "peu" diminués... mais je ne veux rien dévoiler, et n'y croyant pas moi-même, je n'aurais pas parié un kopeck là-dessus. Quoi qu'il en soit, le film est solide, fort divertissant et jouit d'une belle réalisation ; il est bien fichu et indéniablement spectaculaire.

Il semble également étonnamment réaliste -puisqu'inspiré d'une histoire vraie après tout- mais venant d'un film triple A, on aurait pu craindre quelques incartades mais ce n'est pas le cas. La distribution est soignée et même les plus **** rôles ont mis un point d'honneur à s'immerger dans leurs personnages de cons, euh je veux dire de "héros".

On reste donc effaré et on s'interroge de l'utilité d'un tel film, une telle ode aux cons qui va faire des émules certainement... alors que ça devrait servir d'avertissement. On prend bonne note tout de même et on passe un bon moment en tout cas : on prend bonne note pour inviter les meilleurs candidats le prochain mercredi soir...… Expand

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diogomendes

Sep 26, 2015

Longest movie I have seen from this year so far. "Everest" is the kind of films that makes you more stunned for its sheer of spectacle but less with substance, which is lacking in plotting in this movie's case. Loved the group's dynamic, though the dialogue was really clichéd at points,Longest movie I have seen from this year so far. "Everest" is the kind of films that makes you more stunned for its sheer of spectacle but less with substance, which is lacking in plotting in this movie's case. Loved the group's dynamic, though the dialogue was really clichéd at points, particularly when Rob was talking with his wife Jan over the phone. The whole "I love you, I miss you so much" bit is a factor that has been driving me insane in almost every movie about survival. It doesn't help much the fact that these characters aren't developed enough, despite the film having enough runtime to do that, but instead, it ultimately focus on its undoubtedly impressive setting and the tension setup. Another thing that bogged the movie itself a little was the lack of narrative heft. Sure, the performances are great (kudos to Josh Brolin, Jason Clake and Jake Gyllenhaal who did an amazing job in this picture), however, as whole, there was not enough narrative terrain to make "Everest" reach the landmark of better movies, such as "Saving Private Ryan" or "Life of Pi". I'm gonna give, though, a fairly reasonable score due to the solid direction, exuberant cinematography and pretty visuals, but it's not a movie I would recommend, unless you're planning on see it in 3D.

Final Score: 6/10… Expand

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silverado

Dec 27, 2015

I watched this movie with a friend tonight but we couldnt finish it. I was that boring! There was no story, no drama, and the conversations and dialogue was horrendous! My friend said that this is how itreally happened but I dont care for reality, I want a thrill.

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