suite92 Skilled climber Fred and girlfriend Karine, with friends Chloe, Guillaume, and Luc take a hike in the mountains. IMDb claims the film was shot in the French Alps; the scenery is impressive. However, the titles and dialogs say that that they are in Croatia, 'leaving civilization.' That was a bad sign.Early on, their path is marked as blocked. They decide to rock-climb above the blockage and proceed on the chosen path down line of the blockage. That looks rather iffy to me; the terrain takes some serious rock climbing skills. Further, Luc has vertigo, and should have turned back to wait in the vehicle. Also, someone is following them.After a sturdy-looking suspension bridge breaks, nearly killing Karine, they must press on to a pass. After that, at a critical turn, the climber's cable is no longer anchored. The leader, Fred, goes high, again attempting to go above and around the problem. He succeeds, but Luc and Guillaume are left dangling when more pitons pull out. Fred gets caught in an animal trap. Karine and Chloe rescue the dangling Guillaume and Luc via a rope.While waiting in the trap, Fred gets a clue that perhaps he is not alone. The other four finally head for Fred, but he has been dragged off. Apparently these folks have never heard of tracking a blood trail while it's still light out. Chloe falls into a pit trap. Karine goes in after her, and extricates her from a spike. The men pull them out. Darkness falls; they keep looking for Fred in the dark as the rain starts. Whoever has been hunting them shoots Karine through the thorax with a barbed arrow, and cuts the rope joining her to Chloe.Things get worse for the group. Will any of them get out alive?-----Scores------Cinematography: 8/10 Loved the 2.35 aspect ratio. The mountains and the woods were beautiful, and the camera work was professional. There was a little camera shake now and then that did not improve the viewing experience.Sound: 7/10 The dubs really were not good. The incidental music and sound were hit and miss: some right on target, some seemingly pointless.Acting: 7/10 Perhaps not Academy Award performances, but rather good.Screenplay: 2/10 This film starts nicely enough, but borrows much too heavily from the Wrong Turn series. Whatever demons Chloe seemed to need to exorcise early on are not revealed completely, but they killed her in the end. The portrayal of a love triangle was weak.

timaenot I stay wondering why so many directors and screenplay writers of wannabe-horror movies ruin the good ideas they have in the beginning. This movie starts really good, it seems to deal with hobby mountain-climbing and interpersonal tensions. Indeed, mountain-climbing can turn out to be real horror if you are not particularly good at it and if you take a closed (certainly not without a reason) path. In the first 1/2 hour of the movie, nice camera shots and great landscapes convey a feeling of vertigo and a vague sense of danger - which is very, very credible in the given situation. Things can go wrong, ropes can tear, vertigo can drive you to madness, you can get lost in the mountains, there can be a tempest - all that is horror, because it is likely to happen in real life. So WHY the hell is there any need for "boosting" a life-like situation with some maniac moron hunting the characters? WHY do they always turn a real horror situation into a stereotyped, paper-thin, seen-over-a-thousand-of-times slasher? It is the same with "The Descent" which had excellent premises to get really scary (in the end, there are not many things as gruesome as being trapped in some huge subterranean labyrinth of holes without any map) but instead, decided to put in some stupid monsters which ruined the whole suspense and the sense of horror. Horrific are only things which seem realistic or in some way convey the sense of the possibility to get realistic. There is no need for additional "boost"! Folks, show me a horror movie based on completely natural premises and the appropriate development of characters in the given situation - and I will sing you a love song. But it seems easier to get some mad hunter or monsters in than to develop real tensions and real situations.

skiendog-1 Descent meets Vertical Limit. Awesome cinematography, great directing, and great acting actually makes up for a corny plot and poor character development. Young friends venture out on afternoon mountaineering trip, that turns very bad. I watched the Netflix version, and I think it was dubbed into English. If so, it was done very well. After 10 minutes in, I completely forgot about the fact that it was dubbed. Overall, a solid 8-9. Yes, it's missing character development, and the plot is corny. But, there's never a dull moment in the whole movie, and it will have you gripping at your seat. Combine that with the BEAUTIFUL cinematography, and it's a must-see.

benway1 I was looking forward to watching this one, even a halfhearted blatant Descent/Wrong Turn ripoff could have worked if the whole thing wasn't buried under such an annoying script. Starts of with some promising landscape shots but as soon as the climbing starts it turns out one member of the group has vertigo. Sure there are worse ideas than putting a guy with vertigo on a voluntary mountain hike but almost the whole first half of the movie solely relies on that to create tension and panic. Combined with the weak acting of this guy, the rest of the group (only the grumpy ex-boyfriend character was kinda neutral) and some of the most uninspired by- the-numbers dangerous situations it only takes about 20 minutes until I started to keep my fingers crossed for them to die all at once within the next 5-10 minutes. Oh and and after they completely lost it the Descent/Wrong Turn ripoff starts, emphasis more on the wrong turn side.