Nepal, May 1996. Now a tourist destination for thrill seekers, the climbing season on Mt. Everest is always packed. Among the climbers is a team collected by Rob Hall for his Adventure Consultants company, with three guides and eight clients, including the journalist Jon Krakauer. Assisted by Scott Fischer, who is also leading a team to the top, Hall makes his way towards an ascent that turns into on of the greatest disasters in mountain climbing…

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Hollywood sends Jason Clarke, Jake Gyllenhaal, Josh Brolin, John Hawkes, Sam Worthington, Emily Watson, Robin Wright Keira Knightley on a mission bound for the Mt. Everest in 1996, but nothing extraordinary happens. This big budget production is perfectly executed and performed, with strong emotions and spectacular images, but it offers nothing more than a great big melodrama. The key word being efficiency, Everest offer two solid hours of satisfying human adventure, professionally packed by Baltasar Kormákur (Contraband, 2 Guns), and carried by Jason Clarke, who is astonishingly good considering his awful performances in Terminator Genisys and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.