Touching the Void (2003)

Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

There are better movies of two hours length. I loved the actress'performance.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

This movie keeps you on the edge of your seat the entire time. It's very tense even though the outcome is already known.This movie details the true story of a mountaineering expedition gone horribly wrong. It shows the 2 climbers struggling to make it back down as more and more things go wrong.Even though we already know the ending, the movie is still quite the thrill ride. It keeps us on the edge of our seats the entire time. It is very gripping and the movie draws the viewer into the action immensely.The great acting, facial expressions, sound and music, editing, and set design only makes the tension bigger and it immerses the viewer even more.This is a movie that you have to experience. It's hard to watch at times due to the graphic nature of some of its scenes but it's truly an amazing film which keeps the viewer engaged from beginning to end. It's a must watch for all fans of the genre.

This film is a long drawn out boring documentary about 2 idiots. Its interesting if your a climber maybe.I'm sorry but these two idiots deserved everything. They asked for. I mean why would something not happen when you're climbing dangerous uncharted mountains. They were prepared to sacrifice their lives for stupid yuppie risks. They sound selfish and self absorbed and narcissistic spoilt rich brats.At the start one of the men says they didn't care about anyone or anything except there climbing. Have no sympathy for these 2 prats. Pair of selfish self absorbed toffs. Again IMDb high rating for terrible films shows peoples low level of intelligence and worship off narcissists.

Touching the Void is a lot like Masayuki Suo's Shall We Dance. That's right, I said it.Where Shall We Dance is supposedly a romantic comedy about dancing, it proves itself to be a wonderful and layered comment on Japanese life (If you've been there - you get it) with obvious jabs at the office job and trappings of married life.Touching the Void equally on the surface, is a docu-drama about a mountain climbing disaster. Yeah, not really. Kevin McDonald's glacial disaster epic trumps Titanic and most BBC nature documentaries on what it means for a living thing to survive. It is expertly re-enacted and edited with excellent testimony from Joe Simpson, Simon Yates and Richard Hawking. This is one of the best films I have ever seen. Profound questions, metaphors and parallels from one's life flash by when viewing the gut wrenching choices each man in this story was forced to confront. For Simon, how does one cope with losing something you are attached to. How do you cut loose and move forward to survive? When do you pack up and move on?For Joe, when do you give up? How do you get up after a fall? What drives a living thing to survive at the most atomic level?Like life, the success of Touching the Void largely depends on how much you invest and bring to it. In the end, you really want to weep or cheer. Joe wins, but it feels as if we did too. I didn't need Celine Dion to tell me that - Bony M did just fine.

Now this is a cliffhanger Stallone!The movie opens slowly, and wisely builds the tension and explain the background for the uninitiated. The rope, the bond, the trust...etc. And as the story moves along you are not sure what exciting/horrify things will happen (unless you read previews - and thus the tragedy of review : it tells you too much but needs to hold your attention) but you do get an uneasy feeling. Then wam/bam, the decisive critical moment jumps on your just like a hurt animal. And it gets worse. That is a great thing about this kind of recollecting documentary, with particularly(A MUST) the first person's perspective. There is so much detail and emotions. And it helps with the 3rd guy breaking up the tension. The only bit that was a bit weird for me is the repeating music in the head near the end. Spoilers** Not sure if this was intentional, but I particularly like the way it started with closeups on Joe's face up until the decision making point - and the explain the broken leg. So I wasn't sure whether the injury was much more serious (i.e. removed or spinal..etc).