Rent Everest (2015)

Fairly decent mountain movies, but with too many poorly-drawn characters - Everest review by PV

Like most who have reviewed this film, I think it's a fairly good watch.

The scenery is stunning, for sure.

The main problem is too many poorly-sketched characters, some of whom look alike - and often shown in blizzards in Everest, so it's really a case of the man with the red jacket dying and the man in the blue jacket surviving.

Still, it's based on a true 1996 story, so I suppose it had to get in all the characters.

Co-written, I see, by Simon Beaufoy (who wrote the Full Monty and many films after that).

3 stars. Not bad, but not great. Want a great mountain film? Then watch TOUCHING THE VOID.

Everest - Everest review by PT

Good movie great watching it on 85 in screen with a projector and 3d classes.loved the scenery bit sad at the end

True story - Everest review by SP

This film was really good and interesting, yet a little sad as its a true story. It showed how much it means to people to achieve their dreams of climbing these huge mountains, despite the danger involved. Dedication is shown in this gritty film.

Gasping for Air - Everest review by BF

Great story, flawlessly told. Obviously they couldn't film on Everest other than around base camp, but the higher up stuff, especially in the 'death zone' is totally believable.

An excellent tribute to those that lost their lives.

Well told, true story - Everest review by AW

Well told story of the challenges of tackling Everest and well portrayed of the real life characters. Quite shocking to realise how many lives Everest has claimed. Of course, very beautiful setting.

Good true story - Everest review by CP Customer

Very good film based on true story, very gripping story and really shows how dangerous this is and how many lives have been lost.

Starts well but we ended up laughing at this film - Everest review by RD

There's good bits - the cinematography is excellent, and the surround sound is superb especially in Dolby Atmos. It starts off as a regular disaster movie, getting to know all the characters as they travel to the region and setting the tensions that will surface later. But then when it all gets exciting, the film falls apart, mainly because of the attempted realism of the film.

If you're in a howling blizzard and gale and shout to your colleague, there's a good chance he won't hear what you said. The film is just like this and is what first brings the movie down. Three of us watched it on a calibrated surround system and all of us couldn't make out much dialogue in the external scenes and had to use the more intelligible base camp dialogue to try and work out what was happening, failing more and more as the film wore on.

The second film problem was that the characters couldn't be identified when covered in weatherproof suits, hats, hoods, face masks and oxygen masks and covered in snow, so identification of individuals then went out of the window. We think there was a rescue effort mounted going by the base camp dialogue, but shots of climbers stuck on the mountain didn't reveal which lot they were, were they going up or down? So as the film went on we lost track of the dialogue, then the identification of who was who and where, and then we ended up laughing so much as we all said "pardon?" at the same time and it turned into a farce.

So glad we didn't go to the cinema to see this.