2015 · adventure · drama · history
Everest
Directed by Baltasar Kormákur2h 1m2015
Inspired by the incredible events surrounding a treacherous attempt to reach the summit of the world's highest mountain, "Everest" documents the awe-inspiring journey of two different expeditions challenged beyond their limits by one of the fiercest snowstorms ever encountered by mankind. Their mettle tested by the harshest of elements found on the planet, the climbers will face nearly impossible obstacles as a lifelong obsession becomes a breathtaking struggle for survival.
Our read: Everest (2015) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive adventure · drama · history entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured adventure / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
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