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Vertical Limit
2000
As action director Martin Campbell's heart-pumping thriller VERTICAL LIMIT begins, an eagle glides gracefully over the stunningly filmed mesas of Utah. Its shadow falls on a vertical rock face being climbed by Peter Garrett (Chris O'Donnell), his father (Stuart Wilson), and his sister Annie (Robin Tunney). Suddenly a backpack .. Read more
| Starring | Chris O'Donnell, Bill Paxton, Robin Tunney, Scott Glenn |
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| Director | Martin Campbell |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Thriller |
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Vertical Limit
As action director Martin Campbell's heart-pumping thriller VERTICAL LIMIT begins, an eagle glides gracefully over the stunningly filmed mesas of Utah. Its shadow falls on a vertical rock face being climbed by Peter Garrett (Chris O'Donnell), his father (Stuart Wilson), and his sister Annie (Robin Tunney). Suddenly a backpack hurtles by, followed rapidly by two climbers whose ropes tear the male Garretts from the rock face. The excruciatingly tense sequence ends in tragedy.
After this stunning opening, the action switches to the Himalayas, where tycoon Elliott Vaughn (Bill Paxton) has financed an expedition that will take him to the summit of K2--the world's second highest mountain. Annie is one of Elliott's party. In the face of a threatening storm, Elliott recklessly insists the climb should continue. The storm duly arrives and decimates the expedition, leaving Elliott and Annie stranded. Peter leads a group of climbers--including the grizzled Montgomery Wick (Scott Glenn) and a French-Canadian nurse (Izabella Scorupco)--in a rescue attempt.
Campbell, director of photography Derek Tattersall, many daring cameramen, mountain climbers, avalanche specialists, and special effects technicians, along with veteran editor Thom Noble, deliver a beautifully filmed mountaineering thriller with even more heart-stopping moments than JAWS.
| Starring | Chris O'Donnell, Bill Paxton, Robin Tunney, Scott Glenn, Temuera Morrison, Stuart Wilson |
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| Director | Martin Campbell |
| Studio | SONY PICTURES HOME ENT. UK |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 59 mins Blu-ray: 2 hrs 4 mins |
| Certificate |  |
| Collections | 100 Big Adventures |
| Genres | Action/Adventure, Thriller |
| Language | DVD: English Blu-ray: English |
| Dubbed | Hungarian |
| Subtitles | DVD: Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish |
| Released | Production year: 2000 To Rent: DVD: 18 Apr 2005 Blu-ray: 14 May 2007 |
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Saturday morning matinee stuff, with one cliff-hanger after another: it's pulp fiction at its most unoriginal, but entertaining enough for the moment.
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Very entertaining movie, fast and action packed with breathtaking scenery. the extras are very good too, showing how the effects were shot using blue screen and... read more »
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Poor film
Rubbish film, although well acted, the climbing scenes are completely unrealistic, more like alpine climbing than himalayan, also the plot is predictable and ... read more »
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I suppose once you have seen one mountain climbing film full of high altitude scenery, you have seen them all.. Hammed up to death, and overall a little bit too... read more »
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High Mountain, Low Score
From the moment the plasticine eagle floats across the opening scene in Monument Valley, you know this is going to be a Turkey of a film. The opening scene is a... read more »
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As action director Martin Campbell's heart-pumping thriller VERTICAL LIMIT begins, an eagle glides gracefully over the stunningly filmed mesas of Utah. Its shadow falls on a vertical rock face being climbed by Peter Garrett (Chris O'Donnell), his father (Stuart Wilson), and his sister Annie (Robin ...
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Vertical Limit
As action director Martin Campbell's heart-pumping thriller VERTICAL LIMIT begins, an eagle glides gracefully over the stunningly filmed mesas of Utah. Its shadow falls on a vertical rock face being climbed by Peter Garrett (Chris O'Donnell), his father (Stuart Wilson), and his sister Annie (Robin ...
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