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Vertical Limit (2000)
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Reviews Counted:31
Fresh:17
Rotten:14
Average Rating:5.5/10
Consensus: The plot in Vertical Limit is ludicrously contrived and cliched. Meanwhile, the action sequences are so over-the-top and piled one on top of another, they lessen the impact on the viewer.
Theatrical Release:Dec 8, 2000 Wide
Box Office: $67,771,442
Synopsis: As action director Martin Campbell's heart-pumping thriller VERTICAL LIMIT begins, an eagle glides gracefully over the stunningly filmed mesas of Utah. Its shadow falls on a vertical rock face... [More]
Starring: Chris O'Donnell, Bill Paxton, Robin Tunney, Scott Glenn
Director: Martin Campbell
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02/07/01
Top CriticThe pace of the movie rarely flags (neither does the idiocy, alas) and it's enough to warrant a marginal recommendation.
12/08/00
Top CriticThis is a movie that means to keep you involved and, preferably, gasping from start to finish . At that, it certainly does succeed.
12/08/00
Top CriticWhen the characters just shut up and dangle, Vertical Limit becomes one heck of a wild time.
12/08/00
Top CriticBut at its worst, Vertical Limit makes you weary with its stock characters and de rigueur explosions, avalanches, collapsing crevices and the like.
12/08/00
Top CriticAn overblown and predictable melodrama.
12/08/00
Top CriticThere's a huge surplus of edge-of-your-seat whatevers in this thin-air thriller about a rescue mission on K2. But by the end, you can't tell who's got more bruises: the actors or your nerves.
12/08/00
Top CriticThe film has unusually witty dialogue for a movie of this genre.
12/08/00
Top CriticNearly all, from a gut-crunching helicopter drop to a literal cliff-hanger of excruciating tension, will have you mentally grasping for a lifeline, even if you fail to completely comprehend what's going on.
12/08/00
Top CriticThe mountain-rescue movie Vertical Limit doesn't just operate at the height of ludicrousness; it also puts marshmallow Chris O'Donnell in the business of saving lives.
12/08/00
Top CriticFor all the pains that have been taken to plunk us vicariously alongside the frozen peril, Vertical Limit is mostly a joke that keeps getting unfunnier.
12/08/00
Top CriticOne of the most thrilling - and authentic - mountain-climbing films in recent memory.
12/08/00
Top CriticThe picture cuts from story thread to story thread, and in such a choppy fashion that we're rarely given the vistas that would allow us to take in the physical layout of the action.
12/08/00
Top CriticMade from obvious formulas and pulp novel conflicts, but strongly acted and well crafted.
12/08/00
Top CriticLumbers from lardy exposition to climax overload.
12/08/00
Top CriticIf you lay aside that action and watch the people instead, it's a morass of dimwitted family crises and hack action-movie cliches.
12/08/00
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