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Into Thin Air: Death on EverestRating:
Release Date: 22 May, 2001 Retail Price: $9.95 Sorry, this product is not currently available. Cast: Complete Cast (7 total) |
Into Thin Air: Death on Everest Reviews
Poor attempt
The acting on this film makes Keanu Reeves look like an amazingly talented actor. Also ripe with contridictions to the book and Bourkeev's book "The Climb", this movie is a major flop. The movie makes Krakaur seem like a hero when really he did nothing heroic; he peacefully slept in his tent as more than half a dozen climbers were slowly freezing to death a mere couple hundred yards away, only thanks to Broukeev's (which this movie typecast as your typic Russian, it is like a bad cold war movie - all they needed to do was add a fur hat with a hammer and sickle to his character) herculien rescue did three who otherwise probably would have perheised survive. The characters are weak and stock. Read the book and Anatoli Bourkeev's "The Climb" instead of watching this piece of [...], both are far better (I consider "The Climb" to be better than "Into Thin Air", which has better prose but reeks of the blame game, just my two cents"). I would also recommend the IMAX movie "Everest", which doesn't go as deep into the tragic events as this (because it is not about them) but is none the less a fantastic documentery.
Does NOT Do The Book Justice
This is a terribly disappointing movie. Krakauer's book is one of the best I've read. Don't buy this movie if you are expecting it to be as exciting/consuming/imagination provoking as the book. It is none of the above.
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