Vertical Limit 2000

影评 (15)

1. C

   Colin the dude 2026年8月23日

   Total camp classic. Total mountain porn. 2nd only to Cliffhanger. Never understood the indifference towards Vertical Limit. Maybe it’s because it was the first film I saw in theaters unaccompanied by an adult, or maybe it’s because I just get such joy watching people dangling from high heights, but it holds a place in my heart that I can’t ever suppress. Hell, even Ebert embraced it. I do love the pre-9/11 world that was just dancing on the precipice of sudden, grim change. A world where Chris O’Donnell could star in a film.

   90 2
2. P

   Paul Scheer 2026年8月23日

   BLOOD BAG FLARE!

   161 7
3. L

   lecommissaire 2026年8月23日

   Ils n’ont pas l’esprit Kaizen

   83
4. M

   matt lynch 2026年8月23日

   Reliable purveyor of setpieces Martin Campbell doesn’t disappoint when this is busy being a WAGES OF FEAR knockoff, helped considerably by some really convincing soundstages and greenscreen backgrounds. But attempts to inject any sort of dramatic stakes here are not met with enthusiasm by the future stars of “NCIS: LA” and “The Mentalist”, and so this suffers from any deviation from a strict survival narrative. The only two who seem to be enjoying the rich buttery flavor of scenery are Paxton and Scott Glenn, the latter particularly selling it in a scene that finds him stumbling across his long-dead wife’s frozen corpse.

   124 1
5. G

   gregs1999 2026年8月23日

   Who knew Ben Mendelsohn could be absolutely hilarious, and why did they cast Temuera Morrison as a Pakistani. A decent thriller, even though some of the fakest snow ever took me out of the moment a few times. Great performances, entertaining story and fun characters. Martin Campbell ranked

   98 1
6. C

   Christian Ryan 2026年8月23日

   Why did I sit through this crappy mountain climbing movie? Because it’s there.

   105 2
7. M

   megan 2026年8月23日

   the limit sure was vertical

   116
8. K

   Kylo 2026年8月23日

   Love these sort of adventure thrillers. They really don’t make ‘em like this anymore. So dramatic and over the top. This was a whole lot of fun. I’m so here for Chris O’Donnell and Bill Paxton. The only negative was that it was a little long. You will not see me climbing any mountain!

   200 3
9. 📀

   📀 Cammmalot 📀 2026年8月23日

   ”Let me get this straight. You want to go up that hill with nitro on your back and hope that it doesn’t jolt, Is that right?” This movie is classified as an action thriller, but fantasy would be a much more accurate description. I can’t believe this movie was a hit. The story is absurd and the only character that’s even slightly interesting is Scott Glenn’s Wick. The biggest problem is that the element of danger is so excessive and overblown that after awhile you just become numb and it all feels a bit silly and boring. ”No one’s suggesting we do anything stupid.” Cinematic Time Capsule – 2000 Ranked

   86 7
10. D

    Dave Edwards 2026年8月23日

    Vertical Limit is a movie I’ve always wanted to like more than I do. It’s directed by the undervalued and under-discussed Martin Campbell, who brings his usual steady hand, delivering several standout set pieces, as he is wont to do. Campbell’s film has a real nasty streak, too, with plenty of characters meeting their makers in spectacular fashion — including a brutal conclusion to the opening scene, which does an excellent job of setting the stakes for the rest of the movie. There’s also some beautiful location work, and when the film had to be shot on sets, they’re uniformly gorgeous. I just can’t get past Chris O’Donnell in the lead. For the most part, I think he’s a charisma…

    58
11. L

    Lou (rhymes with wow!) 2026年8月23日

    My take-away: “It takes more than a few liberties when it comes to mountain climbing, but who cares when the result is this much fun?! Very underappreciated in its early aughts action spectacle. A mindless popcorn flick that really gets the adrenaline pumping.” Michelle’s take-away: “I just love how that safety harness accentuates Scott Glenn’s balls. Even now, at 82 years old, I would totally bone him.” *actually, and this is not a joke, Michelle is extremely knowledgeable when it comes to mountains/mountain climbing. She told many interesting factoids during our watch and pointed out this movie’s many inaccuracies*

    130 24
12. Y

    Yves Bouwen 2026年8月23日

    The avalanche in Vertical Limit is certainly more exciting than the avalanche in Avalanche. Who would have thought? Will Bill Paxton

    130
13. C

    CinemaSerf 2025年9月6日

    When a rock face climb robs “Peter” (Chris O’Donnell) and sister “Annie” (Robin Tunney) of their nobly sacrificing father, rather than abandon their climbing the siblings immerse themselves in ever more dangerous challenges – and few can be more so than the Himalayan K2. With wealthy Americans willing to pay millions of dollars for permits to ascend, this could prove lucrative even if some of them are so reckless as to put everyone’s life at risk on their search for adrenalin. One such expedition is to take “Vaughn” (Bill Paxton) up the mountain but not long after they start the weather turns against them and with an avalanche on their tail, they are lucky to find themselves deep in a crevasse where they can, injured, shelter. Meantime, well of course brother “Peter” is determined to mount a rescue and so turns to veteran mountaineer “Wick” (Scott Glenn) who reluctantly agrees to lead a team to try and save what’s left of the party from their frosty fate. Next thing, thanks to the very accommodating Pakistani military (Roshan Seth) they are equipped with enough nitro glycerine to take ten thousand feet off the height of the thing and are off up on their perilous quest. Now there are some impressive visual effects here and some of the photography of the snow-capped (Kiwi) peaks helps contribute well to an atmosphere that shows just how temperamental and downright hostile nature can be when she gets fed up with interlopers leaving their junk (and their corpses) littering her pristine snow lines. Some of the avalanches look powerful and are made all the more intimidating by the deafening audio that accompanies the movement of these vast quantities of snow and ice. The acting and dialogue, well that’s another matter entirely. O’Donnell is very easy on the eye, but his acting talents are nothing at all to write home about here. Indeed, to be fair, that can be said about just about everyone involved, and every time is saw the curmudgeonly “Wick”, I kept expecting an unkempt David Carradine to emerge. The last fifteen minutes see the action pick up and they just about redeems the rest of it, but the story is fairly weak and laden with baggage that needs a shrink rather than 25,000 feet.

14. W

    Wuchak 2021年3月29日

    _**A Fun Time but overKILL to the Extreme**_

    I had high hopes for this film after seeing the thrilling opening sequence in Monument Valley, Utah; but, alas, it was not to be.

    THE STORY: A famous female climber gets stuck in an ice cave with two others near the top of K2, the second highest mountain on Earth. Her brother, who has sworn off climbing because of his father’s climbing death, has no choice but to assemble a team to rescue the trio.

    WHAT WORKS: As already mentioned, the opening sequence is excellent, the locations are great (the New Zealand Alps), the story pretty much keeps your attention (until the absurdities really mount up — pun intended) and both Robin Tunney & Izabella Scorupco are deliciously beautiful.

    WHAT DOESN’T WORK: As the story continues the believability decreases severely. In fact, the crisis/suspense/action sequences are so EXTREME and strung so close together (especially as the movie proceeds) they tend to make you bust out laughing — the very OPPOSITE reaction the creators wanted. By the very end the ridiculous overkill made me lose interest in whatever story was supposed to be there.

    FINAL ANALYSIS: I was hoping for something unexpectedly great like “The Edge,” but ended up with a fun but ultimately shallow time-waster. For comparison, “Cliffhanger” is “Apocalypse Now” next to “Vertical Limit.”

    GRADE: C

15. J

    JPV852 2020年5月4日

    Some parts were dumb (the nitro bombs for instance) and the CGI not always the best (albeit this was 20 years ago, so some forgiveness) but I liked the cast, Bill Paxton, Robin Tunney and Scott Glenn especially, and thought all in all was an entertaining enough survival-thriller. **3.25/5**