Perhaps the most surprising thing about Baltasar Kormakur’s “Everest” is that I watched it with a sense of fascination rather than emotional engagement. This account of an ill-fated expedition in 1996 to climb the world’s highest peak isn’t short on drama and the stakes couldn’t be higher as every character contends with life-and-death situations throughout. Yet, I was strangely detached from their plight, more taken by the film’s locale and the way it was rendered on screen. Filmed in the Italian Alps and Iceland and presented in IMAX 3-D, Kormakur succeeds in recreating the danger of the characters’ journey as the large screen format and depth of field technology get viewers as close to the mountain as possible without actually being there. To be sure, this is quite a selling point where the movie is concerned; however, it also proves to be a distraction from what should have been a compelling screen adventure.
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