Everest offers a gripping and refreshingly unsentimental reenactment of its grim true-life tale.

While Everest does remind me a lot of the 1992 film K2; I couldn't help but be compelled by the film through-out. The cast is stellar and if you don't the story it's based on; it has you at the edge of your seat. The film is engaging but also heartbreaking at times.
Of course there's fine work by Jason Clarke, Jake Gyllenhaal and Josh Brolin. It's Sam Worthington who surprised me though with probably the best work of his career.

#1 reason you won't ever see me even near a mountain

Even though the film is based on a tragic true story, this is surprisingly uninvolving despite the strong cast involved. There is little here beyond a somewhat formulaic script that seems determined to hit all too-familiar notes and robs the film of any real tension or emotional connection with the characters. Only Brolin and Clarke's characters are given enough development within the film to make you care about them beyond the obvious sympathy for the real people who were involved. Fortunately the film does highlight both the beauty and danger of the environment in which the climbers are working and as they reach the summit, the final hour is a gripping realization of the gradual unease of the characters as weather conditions worsen and the harsh and unforgiving nature of the storm they found themselves in. It is a shame the film offers so little insight into these characters beforehand.

How much you wanna make a bet I can throw a football over them mountains??

What a boring movie this was. No fun at all.

A good film with decent special effects. A tragic story but with so many characters its hard to warm to.

This was brilliantly filmed, brilliantly acted. Has the bonus of being based on a true story. The script was a bit formulaic in parts but this is still a very decent movie.

It's hard to rate this movie because it's based on true events. The plot is not to be judged, the test is acceptable.

Great looking and emotive but falls shy of a perfect grade

3 Thoughts After Watching ‘Everest’:

1. I found the story to be very disjointed, kinda all over the place. Many times, I didn’t know what was going on, where exactly these people were, and who I was looking at.

2. The visuals were the most impressive aspect of the film. I’d be interested to see how the heck they filmed all of that.

3. The fact that this is a true story is pretty compelling, but I believe another film could’ve told it better.

This movie has good actors, I like adaptations that are based on real events.

A fantastic film. Impeccable performances by all the actors. A faithful and dramatic portrait of one of the many stories that ended in tragedy on the fearsome Everest