This year’s Venice film festival gets off to a disastrous start with a fact-based thriller that’s light on thrills
Top of the world, ma? The Venice film festival has opened with the true story of an attempt on the summit of Mount Everest in 1996, directed by Baltasar Kormákur who made the action-thrillers Contraband and 2 Guns. It’s a disaster movie that isn’t a total success. Everest is an oddly subdued drama with plenty of ice, snow, beards, mountains, men shouting desperate instructions at each other through their snowy beards, above the deafening high winds. There’s a bit of don’t-look-down vertigo as our climbing heroes are expected to cross crevasses using ladders they appear to have bought from B&Q. And all the while the tremulous womenfolk are pining and whining on the end of a radio receiver or telephone while the heroic guys battle the elements.
Top of the world, ma? The Venice film festival has opened with the true story of an attempt on the summit of Mount Everest in 1996, directed by Baltasar Kormákur who made the action-thrillers Contraband and 2 Guns. It’s a disaster movie that isn’t a total success. Everest is an oddly subdued drama with plenty of ice, snow, beards, mountains, men shouting desperate instructions at each other through their snowy beards, above the deafening high winds. There’s a bit of don’t-look-down vertigo as our climbing heroes are expected to cross crevasses using ladders they appear to have bought from B&Q. And all the while the tremulous womenfolk are pining and whining on the end of a radio receiver or telephone while the heroic guys battle the elements.
- 9/2/2015
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
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