Movie Review on Baltasar Kormakur's "EVEREST"

Majestic!!! Everest is an inspiring movie and as spellbinding as Mount Everest itself. Great theatre experience.

Baltasar kormakur's disaster movie 'Everest' is a physical experience that will leave you breathless and possibly suffering vertigo. Just the fact that Everest is the world's highest peek requires us to respect it from afar. This movie has accomplished it as it respects the story, it respects the nature and it respects the memories of lives lost during 1996 tragic expedition. I thought it to be an action film, but it feels like an documentry and that's good.

Everest has chalk full of star power- Jason clarke, Josh brolin, Keira knightley, Jake gyllenhaal, Sam worthington, the list goes on. Everyone is believable in this hostile environment. And everyone really did well. Each character is given a back story, you will get attached to most of them but not all of them.

 

Everest movie's star cast

The visuals are, as you might have guessed, stunning and eye-popping. The visual techniques will make you feel that camera actually went up there at 29,029 feet. In this movie camera appears to glide just above the highest ridge of Everest, the snow storm and ice feels just as terrifying and mysterious as the vast outer space itself. Cinematography in the movie is award worthy.

At times, the pace is bit slower than expected and the tones shifted from serious to light hearted. But that will not bother you as you will just be wrapped in the intensity of the story and visuals.

Everest movie does make me wonder why anyone would want to climb mount everest by challenging nature, but it's basically the same as asking ourselves why we do certain things, why we choose to attempt to conquer certain goals, whatever they may be whether its the need to inspire or be inspired, whether its trying to escape our problems, whether its the love to climb, Everest goes to show that it could be both prideful and humbling.

A still from the movie. 

Overall this film really did it for me because I have always been fascinated by Mount Everest and Mountaineering. Everest gave me exactly what I wanted. It was intense, emotionally powerful, and visually beautiful. As far as rating is concerned, I'm giving it 8.5/10. Definetly worth a trip to theatre.

Rarely any movie inspires me but this one did. It has many quotes that left their mark on me. Soon I will look forward for mountaineering and even for Everest. ;)

We should never let go of something that really matters a lot in our life.