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Am Limit (To the Limit) (2008)

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Speed rock climbing is the latest wrinkle in the growing pantheon of extreme sports; high-speed climbers take the basic rudiments of mountain climbing and shift them into overdrive, climbing sheer cliffs in a matter of hours rather than days. Filmmaker Pepe Danquart offers a look at this exciting new sport and two of its best-known proponents in the documentary To the Limit. Alexander Huber and his brother Thomas Huber are profiled as they demonstrate their skills in the mountains of Patagonia

Oct 21, 2008

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Director Pepe Danquart and his cinematographers give us lots of splendid mountainscapes, but more importantly, they put the cameras right there with the climbers; we see, up close, every strained muscle and grimace.

August 8, 2008 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | Comment
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There could be more, but what is here is beautifully gripping.

July 11, 2008 Full Review Source: Denver Post | Comment
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In To the Limit, Thomas and Alexander Huber run up rocks the way some of us run up credit cards -- rapidly, fearlessly and with little regard for consequences.

June 13, 2008 Full Review Source: New York Times | Comment
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Many American sports documentaries tend to fall into a predictable inspirational rut, no matter how stunning the footage. Pepe Danquart's To the Limit from Germany looks great, but it's an altogether different animal.

June 13, 2008 Full Review Source: New York Post | Comment
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A character-driven documentary dedicated to capturing bickering, daredevil siblings against a variety of breathtaking backdrops.

October 23, 2008 Full Review Source: EURWeb | Comment
EURWeb

So nerve-racking is its death-defying rock climbing footage that To the Limit could have easily been renamed Vertigo without giving the master of suspense any postmortem unease.

June 12, 2008 Full Review Source: Slant Magazine | Comment
Slant Magazine

There is more to To The Limit than just pretty pictures. The movie is both a study in human endurance and a sketch of two men whose fraternal love sometimes curdles into disgust.

June 12, 2008 Full Review Source: AV Club | Comment
AV Club

The action shots are often breathtaking, but overbearing mood music, shaky-cam and other would-be enhancements leave you wishing To the Limit had escaped postproduction meddling.

June 11, 2008 Full Review Source: Time Out New York | Comment
Time Out New York

It isn't Danquart's fault that his subjects couldn't match his documentary's aims. But it is his fault that his film refuses to acknowledge it.

June 6, 2008 Full Review Source: Boxoffice Magazine | Comment
Boxoffice Magazine

Danquart chose to omit all maps, charts, graphics and identifying captions, a decision that severely restricts To the Limit's appeal for non-aficionados.

June 5, 2008 Full Review Source: Film Journal International | Comment
Film Journal International

Mountain-climbing undertaken with a manic sense of urgency.

June 2, 2008 Full Review Source: NewsBlaze | Comment
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This documentary follows two Bavarian brothers on their climbing trips around the world and particularly their biggest challenge: to climb a peak in Yosemite Park that usually takes 5 days in 2 and a half hours. The landscape shots are stunningly beautiful, the soundtrack nice, the climbing scenes dizzying and

October 7, 2008
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This is definitely one IMax movie that will take your breath away and leave you in awe. I saw it at the Fleet museum in San Diego where the dome theater is one of the best anywhere. Truly an awesome experience.

June 27, 2011
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