They call it the savage mountain. 27 people have perished trying to reach the summit on K2, the world's second highest peak. A U.S. climbing team, funded by millionaire Clairborne is determined to conquer K2.
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All of this could have been avoided if people didn't do insanely inadvisable and extremely hazardous things like climb giant mountains, possibly the most insanely inadvisable and extremely hazardous thing anyone could foolishly attempt aside from flying a kite in a tornado or like sticking your dick in an oscillating fan. I'm serious: if you do this, you are a stupid person.
After finishing my watchlist filled with art house cinema, film noir, and good ol' Hollywood classics, it finally feels great to chill out to a simple B-movie like K2.
Damn, this movie started out cheesy. Cheesy soundtrack, cheesy acting. It's a very 'early 90s' kind of movie, not so much a 'late 90s' kind of movie (like Vertical Limit), but it gets better as soon as they start climbing. Every scene that doesn't take place in the mountains is crap. So it's a good thing that the movie almost only takes place in the mountains, more specifically the mountains of Karakoram. Just like in Vertical Limit.
It's a fun and exciting movie, showing the dangers of mountain climbing (and the…
Michael Biehn basically bullies Matt Craven into leaving his wife and child behind to climb K2, and then is a complete dilweed the entire time and pretty much almost gets everyone killed. Some decent climbing cinematography though, and the most 90s-ass opening credits I've seen in quite a while, holy shit.
Michael Biehn, baby!
If I lived a million lifetimes, you'd never find me climbing a mountain. Not even alongside Michael Biehn, one of my all time faves.
K2 borrows a Top Gun dynamic with its characters and the danger. Mountain climber Michael Biehn is a cocktail of hot-headed and cocksure. He's a showman in the face of peril. His 'Goose' on the rocks is Matt Frewer, whose wife and baby setup gives him a clash of priorities - he picks bromance over romance.
The locations are about the best thing you can point a camera at and the stunts and staging are seriously impressive for a film hardly anyone saw. While there is an undeniable air of predictably about it,…
Pure 90s cheese mixed with mountaineering is literally what I live for.
After a long intro that I found absolutely ok to get to know the characters and their motives, two young guys decide to take part in a group climb onto K2. It´s all about the narcissism of these people, they want to climb K2 to test their boundaries and be the cool guys who did this. This has been staged very well. Also the pictures of the mountains and the camera in general is just fantastic in my opinion! Especially for a movie from 1991!
To me this is one of the better mountaineer movies! The cold and the pain are being communicated very well!
A largely-forgotten flop for Paramount, K2 is a big-screen expansion of the acclaimed 1982 one-act play about two climbers stranded on a ledge on Pakistan's K2, the second-highest mountain in the world. Micheal Biehn (cocky alpha lawyer) and Matt Craven (dweeby science guy devoted to his wife and kid) are mismatched best buddies who wind up on a K2 expedition bankrolled by multi-millionaire Raymond J. Barry, where asshole Biehn proceeds to pretty much piss everyone off, including old law school rival Luca Bercovici, who happens to be Barry's top climber.
K2 suffers from cardboard characterizations like that, and Biehn's character is such an arrogant, self-absorbed dick that he really doesn't deserve the redemptive arc that he gets. But director Franc…
This is another film that comes from discussion in a messageboard thread. I faintly remember it being released way back in 1991 but I had never seen it before. For what I presume are the nebulous “rights issues” (several studios came together to make this) this has never received a Region 1 DVD or Blu-ray release, making it difficult to see... unless you have Netflix Instant. Talk of the upcoming star-studded Everest film in the aforementioned messageboard thread inspired discussion of this motion picture again & I figured it was finally time to check it out.
To clarify, K2 is a popular name for a mountain known by several other monikers-Chhogori, Ketu or Mount Godwin-Austen-and it is the second-highest mountain in…
"I'm gonna get us off this fucking mountain."
Been on my watchlist for ages, I finally gave in and rented it on Prime today. Some really neat shots in this and I loved the early 90's style music. Solid survival flick for sure, thanks for reminding me how terrified of heights I am.
I love a movie set on a train. I love movies set in submarines. I love movies aboard a space ship. And recently I have found an affinity for movies set on mountains, particularly mountain climbing movies. I guess I like that there is an immediate and easily understood danger baked into the core of the film. I like that the plotting is reflected in the physical element to be overcome. In the case of a train it is moving linearly from point A to point B. It literally is the engine propelling the story. With mountain climbing movies it is very much the same thing, only in the vertical direction. Start at the bottom, get to the top, come…
This movie is awesome and I don’t care what anyone wants to try to knock it down with. You have real climbing (including one of the best opening scenes ever — “Free the whole pitch”), you have great music courtesy of none other than the man himself, Hans Zimmer, you have a damn good mountain survival story. It’s not contrived, it’s acted decently well, it makes you want to go stand on top of something tall.
I can’t help but notice others don’t share my five star rating. What’s going to work for me isn’t going to work for you. Nobody can climb that mountain for you.
Now I have to watch K3.
