Mountain (2017)

An experience about the highest peaks around the world.

Director:

Jennifer Peedom

Writers:

Robert Macfarlane, Jennifer Peedom

Star:

Willem Dafoe

4 nominations.

Cast

Credited cast:
Willem Dafoe	...	Narrator

Storyline

An experience about the highest peaks around the world.

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Plot Keywords:

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Genres:

Documentary

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG for perilous sports action, some injury images and brief smoking

Details

Official Sites:

Official Site Official site [Japan]

Country:

Australia

Language:

English

Release Date:

11 May 2018 (USA)

Also Known As:

Góra

Box Office

Gross USA:

$243,077, 28 June 2018

Company Credits

Technical Specs

Color:

Color

User Reviews

Oof.

I spent most of this movie trying to figure out whether it was an ad for an SUV or an ad for an investment bank. (Spoiler: it's an ad for The North Face and Red Bull.)

The great Willem Dafoe does his best to make the narration (spiritual-fitness-bro poetry with tons of alliteration: "forged by force and fire, not waves of water but waves of stone, the mountains sing their siren song, making reward of risk and myths from men of madness") seem less laughably stupid, but he's not a miracle worker.

To compare this to a BBC Nature program is frankly insulting to the BBC; I'm a huge admirer of shows like Life and Planet Earth, which demystify the natural world and seek to explain its processes, its systems. This movie, on the other hand, is just an hour of embarrassing ad copy set to a cheesy score over footage of X-Games athletes doing (quite impressive) bike and snowboard stunts.

What an unbelievable waste of resources this movie represents.