The movie released, Everest is in 3D, and provides some unique cinematography that ordinarily we would never be able to see in our lifetime. For that purpose, the movie is an important viewing experience. It is partially filmed in Nepal, making some of the shots memorable, but unfortunately they only had permission for two weeks of filming at that location.
The film is about the human disaster that occurred on Mount Everest in 1996 due to an all too familiar storyline of humans thinking that they are more omnipotent than nature, nature took them for a ride of their lives, and most of them failed to survive. The movie unfortunately delivers the story without the emotional impact that it should have had, an error in the editing and writing rooms. The performances by Jason Clarke, Josh Brolin, John Hawkes, Robin Wright, Michael Kelly, Sam Worthington, Keira Knightley, Emily Watson, and Jake Gyllenhaal were solid, but there was too much film time spent on certain events, and not enough time spent on other events. There were gaps in the writing, coupled with a lack of writing imagination for what was really going on in the minds of those characters on left on the mountains overnight. There are some moments that are moving, but the overall experience was not as memorable as it should have been.
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