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Vertical Limit
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- Starring: Bill pAxton
- Details: US / 120 mins / (12PG).
Climber O'Donnell vows never to scale another peak when his father dies in a mountaineering accident but when his sister Tunney gets stranded on K2, O'Donnell is forced into action. O'Donnell is badly miscast, the stunts are decidedly average, and the script is as predictable as snow in the Himalayas. Poor fare.
Review by Declan Burke
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