Review of Vertical Limit (2000) by Connor _ — 14 Jun 2011

Family differences and personal grudges add drama to an already tense situation as the lives of a team of mountain climbers hang in the balance in this action drama. Peter Garrett (Chris O'Donnell) and his sister Annie (Robin Tunney) are the children of Royce Garrett (Stuart Wilson), an avid outdoorsman and climbing enthusiast who died when an accident left all three hanging from a single rope; Royce ordered Peter to cut him loose to save the lives of his kids, even though he knew it would mean his death. Years later, Peter has given up climbing and become a respected nature photographer, while Annie, who holds Peter responsible for her father's death, is a famous world-class mountain climber who is hired by Elliot Vaughn (Bill Paxton), a self-made billionaire, to help him scale K2, a mountain in the Himalayas that's the second-highest peak in the world. In the midst of the climb, dangerous weather strikes, and Elliot, Annie, and their crew find themselves trapped in a cavern that's been sealed tight by an avalanche. Peter, who is near K2 working on an assignment, quickly organizes a crew of expert climbers to save Annie and the other mountaineers, who must work under a tight deadline before the trapped climbers run out of air. Peter's partners in the rescue include beautiful medic Monique (Izabella Scorupco), radical climbers Cyril (Steve Le Marquand) and Malcolm (Ben Mendelsohn), disciplined Pakistani crewman Kareem (Alexander Siddig), and Montgomery (Scott Glenn), an eccentric outdoorsman who has a score to settle with Elliot. While backgrounds were shot on location in Pakistan, most of the climbing sequences in Vertical Limit were actually filmed on mountain ranges in New Zealand.

Starring Chris O'Donnell, Bill Paxton, Robin Tunney, Scott Glenn, this is a pretty action adventure movie packed with some really breathtaking and heart stopping for specially me since I am really scared of heights.

I am rating it this much just for the adventure fun and special effects action scenes of it and the fact it got my breath away but still the movie has flaws and it is not actually very good.

This is a movie about mountain climbing, very harsh conditions are shown when the brother has to save his sister after she with two other guys is trapped due t an avalanche. its directed by Martin Campbell with average direction, he could have been slightly better but still okay. good cinematography pretty scary and eye popping mountains really looks good. screenplay had flaws it was uneven. plot was a bit shaky too.

Recommended to action adventure lovers.