Greenes Please don't spend money on this.

Glucedee It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

Roy Hart If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Beulah Bram A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.

Becky Travis Okay, so I get that they had to cut a lot for time. It's a made-for-TV movie and I wasn't really expecting total accuracy. I don't really have any major problems with the condensing of events and speeding up the timeline of acclimatization and the ascent. I have re-read the book a couple of times in the recent past and I also read Beck Weathers's "Left for Dead," so I noticed a lot of inaccuracies, but there were only a few that really bothered me.The first is that they portrayed Yasuko Namba as incompetent and maybe a little stupid. I haven't seen evidence elsewhere of either. While she was not a professional climber, she had successfully completed 6 of the 7 summits. The mistake she made (of clipping on before the rope was anchored) was not made like an idiot when she was just starting the climb...it was made near the summit where oxygen and judgment are harder to come by. That error was also caught before she pulled Beidleman down. She also died much more quietly, as far as Krakauer's account goes.The second problem I had was Krakauer's incredibly over-inflated role in the movie. During most of the disaster, he was sleeping in his tent. That's not meant to be a criticism of him, but it was really weird to see him being the one everyone was calling and him being the one in charge of everything. I suppose they were trying to condense and not bother to introduce one more character (poor Stuart Hutchison gets no credit here), but it's the least useful and most nonsensical condensation in this movie. I also don't like the playing up of the rivalry between Hall and Fischer and I don't think that Fischer was as over-the-top reckless as he was portrayed here.I think I'm going to show Storm Over Everest to my class instead.

tonyb-778-273815 Krakauers book was superb. Sadly this movie was utterly appalling. It received the 'Holywood' treatment and suffered greatly as a result. Compare this mish-mash of a movie with that brilliant movie 'Touching The Void' In short you cannot make a comparison. The wooden acting in Into thin air bordered on the laughable, and I literally squirmed with embarrassment watching it. I switched the movie off before it reached its climax. I gave my copy to a couple of friends who agreed with me. What a shame-This could have been a riveting account. Sadly I believe that the producers of this movie were attempting to cash in on the sensational-explosive reports that came through in 1996.

thesprawlbuster Krakauer's book is a riveting assessment of how mountains change us, test us, and best us. Unfortunately, these filmmakers were bested by Everest, too. The film was plagued by poor scripting; directing/editing that did little more than offer the chronology of this awful disaster; and it was devoid of either subtext or dramatic tension since we all know the outcome of that particularly disastrous season on Everest. I had high hopes when I set out to watch it, given the good performances I'd seen in the past of Peter Horton (thirtysomething), Nathaniel Parker (The Inspector Lynley Series), and Christopher McDonald (Requiem for a Dream). Stick with the book -- it's a super fast read, and a textured, wonderful, poignant, adrenalin-filled ride!

Maria Sabom Jon Krakauer did a good job of describing the Everest climb in which he participated and which was a fatal disaster for a dozen of those who were with his team.The book was probably the most popular and best-selling mountaineering tale of all time. Readers of the book who watch this made-for-TV movie should be forewarned that the movie not only attempts to chronicle the disaster but is, in itself, a disaster. The movie is perhaps a greater disaster for those who never read Krakauer's book - the editing leaves one wishing for a guide, the acting leaves one wishing for a dinner theatre musical, and the overly trite 'messages' that the movie pounds into the viewer ("be prepared", "you can't always be prepared for disaster", "respect the mountain") left me wishing for a quick ice axe to the forehead.