Everest

...excellent technical work and the efforts of a first-rate cast...

...boasts a handful of spectacular shots that show how small the climbers really are, usually by panning from a team of struggling hikers to the vast, craggy expanses beneath them.

...true-life disaster movie plays like a downbeat sequel...one-ups it with even more vertiginous, stereoscopic imagery of the highest place on Earth, using footage shot on the mountain along with cleverly selected lookalike locales.

Kvar står de magnifika bilderna av själva berget och det vildsinta vädret...

Emily Watson is terrific as the base camp controller trying to manage the unfolding chaos, and it’s her scenes that pack the greatest punch, her face and voice a pitch-perfect portrayal of alarmed restraint.