The Eiger Sanction

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acsdoug D @acsdoug Mar 21 The climbing scenes are truly impressive. Eastwood and the actors truly look like they're on dangerous precipices thousands of feet up. Great photography and a story a bit above average makes for a decent Eastwood vehicle. See more Matthew H @Hendy2013 Feb 18 Another exciting Clint classic See more Tony S @RT22145614 Feb 7 A thin plot, but some beautiful mountain climbing scenes. Typical Eastwood character. See more Jonathan O @RT41230270 Oct 13 Is 007 meets Hitchcock in a highest suspenseful action adventure thriller of the 70's and Eastwood did really incredible work especially doing he's own stunts including climbing real mountains and really great cast including George Kennedy and really breathtaking cinematography and great score by John Williams who later and executive producers would later do JAWS but also really great writing and humor and best lines. See more Blu B @RT43513976 01/27/2025 It's like a hybrid of a survival/disaster thriller and a 007 movie with all the bad cliches. The mountain ending is the good and the best part with gorgous shots and real suspense. The problem is getting to that point is a bit of a chore. The editing is alright enough. The whole thing with him training kind of feels pointless because we already see he's able to execute his missions just fine so it doesn't really make sense. It starts out fine but it just really sttarts to become a 007 movie with the hot woman, dumb humor, and spylike plot. The real killers here are the BORING plot expose moment where Eastwood literally just stands there for 5 minutes while the other dude explains stuff emotionless. Again it all makes sense but it just isn't told in the sharpest most consistent way. Everything else is half decent. Eastwoods direction isn't bad either here save for the boring plot expose scenes and clear 007 copycat like influence. This really doesn't have any action in it to speak of but still manages to be interesting enough overall thanks to the ending. The twist revealed also is kind of cool but there isn't really any clear way it could be deciphered looking back either. Also the 3 dudes on the hike that are targets are all a bit forgettable too. The love interest seems a bit pointless also. If your a die hard Clint Eastwood fan this may be worth checking out. See more James F @TheBigW 05/15/2024 What a clunker of a movie. It takes an hour before they get to the mountain climbing, and there some of the visuals are really cool. But this has almost nothing to recommend it otherwise. It has a half-cooked/low-rent James Bond vibe, you do not care about any of these characters and the plot is silly and uncompelling. It is a bad movie from the 1970s, that would be better forgotten than watched. If you are expecting a 70's version of "Cliffhanger" but with Clint Eastwood, you will be disappointed. See more Read all reviews

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