Everest's reviews
Media reviews
Los Angeles Times
Though there is heroism as well as love here, because it involves the deaths of people we have come to care about, "Everest" is finally a sad story, though not always a dramatically involving one. If you're looking for great mountain climbing films, documentaries like "Meru" and "The Summit" will take you higher than "Everest," world-class visuals and all.
Rolling Stone
Still, there's only one star in this movie: Everest. Kormákur couldn't shoot higher than base camp, around 14,000 feet, without sickening the actors. But a crew traveled to the top to get footage, while much of the climbing was shot in the Dolomites. No matter. You watch Everest and you believe.
Chicago Sun-Times
?Everest? does a fine job of laying out that situation ? and then the climb begins, and storms hit, and it?s all about the special effects and the practical stunts, and following along with various climbers who stop short and turn back, reach the summit victoriously and/or draw their final breaths on Everest, like so many before them.
El País
The film shows perfectly the originality of the film proposal. Exciting and suggestive, away from the usual epic victory and discovery.
Variety
Although not a pointer achievement, this epic story of Baltasar Kormákur is a chronic debilitating properly, and surprisingly unsentimental, of the 1996 Everest tragedy.
Cinemanía
It is painful, dangerous, bad for relationships ... why? "Asked Jon Krakauer (Michael Kelly), the journalist who accompanied the fateful expedition that climbed to the top of Everest in May 1996.
El Mundo
It works perfectly as an adventure film. The trouble is that the intimate and dramatic parts not only do not work but even rub the ridiculous eventually becoming a drag.
Fotogramas
All films about mountains should be vertical. It is a law dictated by common sense that 'Everest', which is emerging as the film for climbers, ignores. No altitude, no depth, no immersion, which is more serious considering that Kormákur filmed the film in 3D.
Festival Internacional de Cine de Lanzarote