01-15-2020, 11:32 PM
Wu Jing and Z take on Everest. Jackie makes a cameo but it's so damn fast, you miss it if you blink. This was another major blockbuster last year. It's almost unwatchable. China wants to climb Everest to show their nation's fortitude. Wu was on an earlier mission where only three survived. They made it but they lost the camera in an avalanche so there's no proof. 15 years later, he tries again with a major assault team. Apparently Wu trained extensively for the cold. And it is very panoramic. There's some amazing shots. But then there's absurd action sequences - how many ways can you fall off Everest? And how many gravity-defying ways can you almost fall but then manage to save yourself? There's lots of unrequited love, which strikes me as particularly absurd because mountain climbers strike me as ballsy sorts, not the type to hem and haw when it comes to confessing love. Maybe it's an Asian thing. But man, some of the action sequences are so dumb - 'like how would that even happen?' caliber. For example, there's a wind storm that blows all the tents away but one climber gets his foot caught in the tent cord and nearly gets blown off the mountain, but Wu catches another cord and digs his crampons in so there's this dude in midair suspended between a flying tent and Wu. And there's sort of an avalanche going on. It's so painfully patriotic, and for a bit I was envious that the U.S. can't produce any blockbuster films that make us feel good about our nation, but then this movie got so silly. Two hours of overdone melodrama. Oof.
DOOM unrecommended.
DOOM unrecommended.
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