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Genres:
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Adventure /
Drama /
Music
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Director:
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Franc Roddam
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Actors:
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Matt Craven,
Leslie Carlson,
Annie Grindlay,
Elena Wohl,
Charles Oberman,
Christopher M. Brown,
Michael Biehn,
Blu Mankuma,
Julia Nickson-Soul,
David Cubitt
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Duration:
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102 min.
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Rating:
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(5.9/10)305
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Plot Summary:
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Taylor and Harold are complete friends and avid climbers. While climbing only day, they meet a gazabo who it seems energy be attempting to climb K2, the overjoyed's lieutenant-highest peak. Always cheeky, Taylor bugs the man appropriate for a recognize on the band, claiming that he and Harold are credible tolerably. They may be pure good, but K2 is a very chewy mountain.
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K2
Vertiginous but ultimately dull as ditchwater, this overambitious mountain thriller has Biehn and Craven as the two chums who set to vanquish the very spacy and entirely risky ridge K2. En route the two chaps suborn e learn to do some bonding, confront ungentlemanly and off-putting porters and deliver such portentous lines as 'If there are no answers, why don't you look as a replacement for one?', and 'That's why I climb mountains.' A kinky choice of film owing Roddam - it fails to scale the dizzy heights of its subject, but is at least redeemed in quarter by means of the stunning scenery and amazing cinematography.
K2
At a certain time, Michael Biehn seemed fated to reach the higher echelons of Hollywood. With his breakthrough roles in The Terminator and Aliens, he offered a fresh variation on the self-confident action hero: a more sensitive, haunted chassis, and sometimes, as in The Abyss, with a darker, psychotic side. However, since then, Biehn has not in any way had the breaks he deserves, sober-sided still he remains as charismatic as ever, as this climbing epic demonstrates. Here he is perfectly as a brash lawyer who lives life on the force through his passion representing mountaineering. When wealthy Raymond J Barry plans an assault on the tiptop of the title, Biehn manages to arouse himself and his climbing buddy Matt Craven included in the crew, against the wishes of Crave...
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