CommentsXp Best movie ever!

Taraparain Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

Brainsbell The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

Quiet Muffin This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

cmass11 There were a number of excellent actors in this film and it was a very good story to make into a film. I ultimately found that, despite the dramatic real life story, the film missed opportunities to push for a very viseral experience. There were moments that certainly could have and should have been more drawn out to give the viewer a truer experience to what the real life story was based on. The film is certainly worth watching, but it is not one that I would return to for another viewing.

perrylongnose Everest is a great movie which is about the tragic 1996 distaster.The actors are amazing!Everest gives you what it is like to climb it.A thing that might turn some people of is the lack of action.Everest is a very accurate movie.

rakesmanna Stunning Scenery and awesome mountain scene makes it worth to watch.If I could watch it in the 3D would have been make it super awesome.Characters more or less justify themselves. One big mistake, the movie uses a bollywood song which released on 2001 but the story in movie was of 1996. I think the storytelling could be better in this movie.

Gavin Purtell 'Everest' is a true survival - man vs nature - film. It's not necessarily fun, but it is engrossing. Since it's based on a true story (I haven't read the 'Into Thin Air' novel), it's a simple plot - in 1996, a group of experienced climbers engage the services of Rob (Clarke) to assist them in their climb to the summit of Earth's highest mountain - Mt Everest in Nepal. The film spends 40min (probably too long) introducing the characters and staying at Base Camp, but it does give you the chance to get to know them and their motivations - especially Beck (Brolin) & Doug (Hawkes).That's the main question throughout - "why"? I think it boils down to ego - man's desire to conquer everything, even nature's most extreme obstacles - highest mountain, driest desert, deepest ocean trench, outer space, etc. It is nice to see them fulfilling their dreams on making it to the summit, but once the inevitable storm blows in, it really does make you think "these people are insane for being up there"! I definitely won't be climbing Everest!It's a well-made film, with good pacing once they're climbing and some truly beautiful shots of the Himalayas - very glad they shot a lot of it on-site. The devastating storm is one of the loudest and most ominous things you can imagine when at the top of a mountain. Rob's calls with Jan (Knightley - worst Kiwi accent ever) slow things down, but add to the drama.