Cliffhanger
"Spectacular, heart-thumping, throat-tightening, pulse-pounding, sweaty-palms suspense." -American Movie Classics
Sarah was an inexperienced climber. She trusted Gabe to rescue her, but something went wrong high above the valley floor...
Sylvester Stallone, John Lithgow, Michael Rooker, Janine Turner and Ralph Waite star in this high-altitude avalanche of action: a non-stop adventure peaked with suspense and capped with heart-quaking terror.
For Rocky Mountain Rescue, the mission is almost routine: locate five climbers. With the woman he loves (Turner) and his best friend (Rooker), Gabe Walker (Stallone) braves the icy peaks only to discover that the distress call is really a trap set by merciless international terrorist Eric Qualen (Lithgow). Now millions of dollars and their own lives hang in the balance. Against explosive firepower, bitter cold and dizzying heights, Walder must outwit Qualen in a deadly game of hide-and-seek.
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Awesome! - imagination201
From the original story to the awe-inspiring natural setting, to the characters, this movie has it all. Stallone is really good at convincing us that he's dangling over a precipice (and sometimes, he really was), and the run from the thieves is thrilling and enrapturing.
A must see!Cliffhanger - APV55555
Cliffhanger is an action-packed suspenseful story of a rescue team in the Colorado mountains and how they become involved with some crooked goings on in the Treasury Department. Stallone is his usual self as the action hero. John Lithgow is very effective as the villain.Fun High Altitude Action Movie - revsdd
Overall, I thought this was a pretty passable action/adventure movie that featured a bit of an outlandish story about a group of international criminals who steal millions of dollars from a US Treasury plane and then have to depend on a couple of mountain rescuers to help them find it after a crash. The movie featured pretty good performances from the very versatile John Lithgow as the mastermind criminal Eric Qualen, as well as from the generally one-dimensional (read Rocky Balboa) Sylvester Stallone as climber Gabe Walker, who overcomes a tragedy at the start of the movie to become the great hero by the end. There was some pretty exciting action that was scattered throughout the movie, thus keeping the viewer interested, a lot of bad guys to root against, and a good supporting performance from Michael Rooker as Walker's rescuer sidekick Hal Tucker. In addition to the outlandish plot, there were a few things that just didn't work for me. Why it was decided that this movie needed to include a couple of pretty typical "stoner-type" characters is a bit beyond me. The two kids added nothing to the movie and really served only to irritate me. Then there was the absolutely unnecessary (and at least mercifully brief) bat-scene in the crack through which Walker and Jessie (Janine Turner) were crawling. That also accomplished nothing except allowing any bat-squeamish viewers to go "eeewww" when Walker sticks his hand in guano and the bats start to fly at them. Finally, does anyone actually believe that John Lithgow could hold his own in a fistfight with Sylvester Stallone the way the respective characters did at the end of this movie? Not likely, in my opinion. For all that, for a movie with a story that was at best very limited, this movie was fun most of the way through.
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Awesome! - imagination201
From the original story to the awe-inspiring natural setting, to the characters, this movie has it all. Stallone is really good at convincing us that he's dangling over a precipice (and sometimes, he really was), and the run from the thieves is thrilling and ...Cliffhanger - APV55555
Cliffhanger is an action-packed suspenseful story of a rescue team in the Colorado mountains and how they become involved with some crooked goings on in the Treasury Department. Stallone is his usual self as the action hero. John Lithgow is very effective ...Fun High Altitude Action Movie - revsdd
Overall, I thought this was a pretty passable action/adventure movie that featured a bit of an outlandish story about a group of international criminals who steal millions of dollars from a US Treasury plane and then have to depend on a couple of mountain ...