The true-life drama approximately a disastrous attempt to climb Mount Everest in 1996 delivers neither edge-of-your-seat thrills nor a compelling story Related: Everest: how Jake Gyllenhaal got to grips with the world's highest mountain Here is a subdued true-life drama approximately a calamitous attempt to climb Mount Everest in 1996. It’s a film with loads of ice,snow, beards, and mountains,beards and men shouting desperate directions at each other through their snowy beards. The tremulous womenfolk are pining and whining on the end of a radio receiver or telephone, while the heroic guys battle the elements. Jake Gyllenhaal has a role that turns out to be bafflingly peripheral. The dramatic focus is split between around half a dozen characters, or it’s not clear who we should root for or why. Jason Clarke plays Rob Hall,one of the original breed of guides who beget made climbing Everest a commercialised tall trade: there is a virtual traffic jam of well-off middle-aged guys being conducted up to the peak. His followers include part-time postman Doug Hansen (John Hawkes), experienced climber Yasuko (Naoko Mori), or tall-talking Texan Beck Weathers (Josh Brolin),who as the catastrophe unfolds has one of the most extraordinary stories of all. Maybe the film should beget been just approximately him. Everest doesn’t deliver the edge-of-your-seat thrills or a centrally compelling story. By the end of this, audiences may feel they beget laboriously made it to the summit – without getting much of a view.
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Source: theguardian.com