I love climbing movies and I saw Jackie Chan somewhere in the credits, so I sat down with a bottle of beer looking forward to enjoy this flick. What a waste of time!!!
First of all, this movie looks like it's been made by a trashy filmmaker, if you can call them so, a filmmaker. Every technical detail is dreadful - the CGI is lousy, some shots look like they were taken with a low quality camera (such as a GoPro) so they stand out against the rest of the movie, the cast is painful to see because the director did not know how to make them perform well... There are many sensitive secuences that end up being sappy and cheaply overemotional because of the poor directing. The epic feat did not receive equal justice in the film as the over-the-top tone of the film becomes too propagandist and shallow. And using Jackie Chan as a bait, when he only performs a few minutes at the end of the movie, right after the first end credits, it's deceitful and sad.
This is definitely a wasted opportunity. I haven't yet seen a great climbing movie (Everest and Werner Herzog's Scream of Stone, both fine flicks, could be the best ones I've seen so far), but The Climbers is such a bad movie I felt compelled to write this review.
If you don't mind about climbing, don't waste your time, but if you do like climbing movies and you'll see it anyways, it's not going to be a pleasant watch. You've been warned.
First of all, this movie looks like it's been made by a trashy filmmaker, if you can call them so, a filmmaker. Every technical detail is dreadful - the CGI is lousy, some shots look like they were taken with a low quality camera (such as a GoPro) so they stand out against the rest of the movie, the cast is painful to see because the director did not know how to make them perform well... There are many sensitive secuences that end up being sappy and cheaply overemotional because of the poor directing. The epic feat did not receive equal justice in the film as the over-the-top tone of the film becomes too propagandist and shallow. And using Jackie Chan as a bait, when he only performs a few minutes at the end of the movie, right after the first end credits, it's deceitful and sad.
This is definitely a wasted opportunity. I haven't yet seen a great climbing movie (Everest and Werner Herzog's Scream of Stone, both fine flicks, could be the best ones I've seen so far), but The Climbers is such a bad movie I felt compelled to write this review.
If you don't mind about climbing, don't waste your time, but if you do like climbing movies and you'll see it anyways, it's not going to be a pleasant watch. You've been warned.