Juonikuvaukset(1)
In the air above Switzerland, on the sheer rock-and-ice wall known as the Eiger, an American climber is about to embark on the most perilous and meaningful ascent he has ever undertaken: an attempt to scale the legendary mountain that took his renowned fathers life. Against a backdrop of overwhelming natural beauty, The Alps is a true-life story of extrodinary courage. It's the intensely personal journey of a man who has every reason not to climb the deadly Eiger North Face, yet climb it he must.
Featuring some of the most spectacular giantscreen imagery yet seen, the film celebrates the unsurpassed beauty of the Alps and the indomitable spirit of the people who live there.
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Arvostelut (1)
It had been a good few months since I felt such a pleasant chill in a movie theater as I did watching this at the Imax, flying through over mountain and through valley in the majestic Alps, accompanied by music by Queen. In the shadow of this I found it easy not to be annoyed by things like the simplified story of the origin mountain ranges for kids etc. And anyway, that is negligible in comparison with the main “storyline" about a mountaineer who returns to Switzerland to honor the memory of his father. He intends to do that by negotiating the north face of the Eiger, where his father died tragically. This, combined with a lesson in geology for primary school kids doesn’t work for one second. Not even in the worst possible Hollywood disaster movie can you hear so many variations on the words “love, duty, honor". It’s amazing just how many of them you can stuff into forty-five minutes of footage. Which is nothing in comparison with the end when this loving son eventually reaches the top and reads a “love letter" from his little daughter and wife who are waiting obediently in a meadow at the foot of the mountain. This is just a tsunami of aged declarations and sentences like “I had to climb up this mountain in order to realize everything I have down below". My girlfriend had to revive me right there in the movie theater. Indescribable hell. So in spite of the fantastic mountainside camera shots and the outstanding Brian May, I suffered like a mule with a load weighing a ton on my back. If I hadn’t seen it in the “wrap-around" IMAX, I would have given it far fewer stars than I did in the end.
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Kuvagalleria (13)
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