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Title: Everest (2015)
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Jason Clarke | ... | Rob Hall | |
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Ang Phula Sherpa | ... | Ang Dorjee |
| Thomas M. Wright | ... | Michael Groom | |
| Martin Henderson | ... | Andy 'Harold' Harris | |
| Tom Goodman-Hill | ... | Neal Beidleman | |
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Charlotte Bøving | ... | Lene Gammelgaard |
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Pemba Sherpa | ... | Lopsang |
| Amy Shindler | ... | Charlotte Fox | |
| Simon Harrison | ... | Tim Madsen | |
| Chris Reilly | ... | Klev Schoening | |
| John Hawkes | ... | Doug Hansen | |
| Naoko Mori | ... | Yasuko Namba | |
| Michael Kelly | ... | Jon Krakauer | |
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Tim Dantay | ... | John Taske |
| Todd Boyce | ... | Frank Fischbeck | |
On the morning of May 10, 1996, climbers from two commercial expeditions start their final ascent toward the summit of Mount Everest, the highest point on Earth. With little warning, a violent storm strikes the mountain, engulfing the adventurers in one of the fiercest blizzards ever encountered by man. Challenged by the harshest conditions imaginable, the teams must endure blistering winds and freezing temperatures in an epic battle to survive against nearly impossible odds.
I always find my viewing experience of the retelling of historical events ruined when I come across scenes which I know have been added for dramatic effect or when someone is played as a bad guy just to let us know who to root for.
The King's Speech was particularly guilty of the former, the portrayal of other teams in Glory Road had the latter, and The Imitation Game was shamelessly guilty of both. I'm not saying this made them bad films, but it certainly made me feel like the experience had strayed away from a retelling of the facts as known.
Everest is everything that is good in such a film. There is no needless good v evil addition and no leading the viewer to conclusions. It tells the story and I have since spent three or four days thinking about the hows, whys and wherefores... whilst knowing I will never find an answer.
The other touch that really elevates this film is that there are no added action sequences that have been added to make Everest more of an action move. The film makers have been intelligent enough to realise that climbing Everest does not need any exaggeration, the characters involved were three dimensional people, and the story was interesting enough not to need embellishment.
I expected an action film but left pleasantly surprised by a biopic with a light touch.
The one mark deduction is for the totally unnecessary 3D. The film absolutely didn't need me wearing dumb glasses to be three dimensional.