58. EVEREST (2015)

EVEREST (2015)

Language             -              English

Genre                   -              Biopic/Adventure

Director                -              Baltasar Kormakur

*ing                       -              Jason Clarke (Rob Hall), Jake Gyllenhaal (Scott Fischer), Josh Brolin (Beck Weathers)

IMDB Rating       -              7.1/10

PLOT

                                                                Rob Hall, a New Zealand mountaineer who commercialize Mount Everest expedition, prepares with new eight clients and three guides to ascend Mount Everest. His “Adventure Consultants” teams up with Scott Fischer’s “Mountain Madness” team for a joint expedition to the summit of Highest peak on Earth. Even though they faced some odds on the ascend journey, they were able to reach the top, but their descend did not go as planned due to an unexpected Blizzard. There starts the epic battle between man and nature.

                                                                This 2015 Adventure movie is based on the book Left for dead: My journey Home from Everest (2000) by Beck Weathers which deals with the 1996 Everest Tragedy. It has an ensemble cast from the Hollywood and shows the difficulty in mountaineering but didn’t project the challenges with much intensity. The CGI quality of the movie is in top class showing the summit scene, blizzards and even the frozen climates were all portrayed in a fine manner. The movie also borrowed many scenes from the Imax movie Everest (1998), but the crew has made many innovative shots like using giant refrigerating unit of the size of a semi-truck to cool the part of their shooting set and brought in real snow, because the director wanted the actors to feel like they were frozen.

                                                                It gained positive response from both the critics as well as from the audience and was a huge commercial success, but the sad part is that the movie is based on the 1996 disaster which results in the death of 8 people but the deadliest tragedy in the Mt Everest expedition occurred while the time of shooting the movie when 16 sherpas loss their life who carried luggage’s for the mountaineers.

It’s a good choice for the people who love biopic and a chance to see the beauty of Mt Everest.

Movie Trailer- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79Q2rrQlPW4