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The Climbers (2019)

09/30/2019 Adventure, Action, Drama, History 2h 5m
63%
User
Score
5.5/10
33%

Overview

May 1960. Mount Everest, the second step under the cliff. The four members of the China Everest Climbing Commando are attacking the most difficult and most difficult "second step". This is their fifth assault. The first four failures have cost them too much physical strength - finally, the wind and snow stop the gap.

Daniel Lee

Director

Alai

Screenplay

Top Billed Cast

Wu Jing

Wu Jing

Fang Wuzhou

Zhang Ziyi

Zhang Ziyi

Xu Ying

Zhang Yi

Zhang Yi

Qu Songlin

Jing Boran

Jing Boran

Li Guoliang

Hu Ge

Hu Ge

Yang Guang

Wang Jingchun

Wang Jingchun

Zhao Kun

Chen Long

Chen Long

Lin Jie

He Lin

He Lin

Zhao Hong

Jackie Chan

Jackie Chan

Old Yang Guang

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Media

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Reviews

A review by Peter McGinn

Written on January 30, 2022

I have watched a lot of accounts and dramatizations of mountaineering expeditions, but this is the oddest one I have seen. I guess it is because this film tries to be more than one genre. It is part thriller, part documentary of Chinese Himalayan history, part romance and some propaganda thrown in for good measure. Too much of everything at different times, it seemed to me.

The thriller part was like a Hollywood movie, with more last second rescues and literal cliffhangers than any climber might experience in a lifetime, and some of them so dramatic I expected to see a superhero cape flapping in the howling winds.

Likewise the romance angle seemed overplayed at times, descending into melodrama. Romantic happiness seemed harder to achieve than summitting Everest itself.

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