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May 29,2011
franmcbuchanan
It's hard to imagine that any movie about mountain climbing will ever top this one. Critics have pointed out that the political and romantic... s are weak, and that is true. But how much does it matter when the extensive climbing sequences, particularly those toward the end, leave one gasping with suspense. Full Review
April 17,2010
RICKACK99@HOTMAIL.COM
Superb dramatization of a fateful climbing expedition on the then-unconquered Eiger. With Hitler's pre-war Germany as a backdrop, the film dramatizes... the stakes involved in having two Austrians be the first to summit the mountain. Harrowing climbing scenes -- including the "Hindertoisser Traverse," will leave you gasping, they are so realistic. Full Review
February 26,2010
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Critic Reviews
This is a film done right by just about every measure. The extremes of the story seep deep into your bones -- the beauty, the allure, the desperation and especially the cold in this world where life literally hangs on rope and what Mother Nature chooses to throw at you.Full Review
Betsy Sharkey
Los Angeles Times
This white-knuckle adventure is a literal and metaphoric cliff-hanger that gets a spectacular foothold on an unforgiving mountain.Full Review
Carrie Rickey
Philadelphia Inquirer
Transfixing in the way that well-told life-and-death adventure tales inevitably are. It is the film's more mundane elements -- an awkward, under-nourished love story and half-baked politics -- that are problematic.Full Review
Stephen Holden
The New York Times
A straightforward, wickedly suspenseful man-versus-nature saga of the type that rarely gets made anymore.Full Review
San Francisco Chronicle
These fears explain why in its scenes on the Eiger itself, North Face starts strongly and ends as unbearably riveting. They also explain why it was a strategic error to believe this story needed romantic and political subplots.Full Review
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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