K2

Sortie impressionnante de la maison, respiration étouffée lors d'un bivouac sous un avant-toit, beautés des montagnes Karakoram et musique bombastique de Hans Zimmer. L'histoire est un cliché et la crédibilité physique est médiocre, mais malgré cela, K2 restera, avec Cliffhanger, le meilleur des aventures de montagne des années 90. (11/04/2002)

As long as the climbers are just walking on the plateaus of Tibet, I have no major reservations. But when the going gets tough and the actors feign physical effort at deadly heights, they and the locations are very unconvincing. But it's still a hundred times better than, for example, Vertical Limit's parody of mountaineering. (11/05/2003)

Decent, sometimes immersive, but most of the time only poorly masking the affectation and unconvincingness of key acting performances. The theme looks really beautiful and the environment literally points to extraordinarily strong workmanship, but K2 (like most similar films) slides on the surface and only grabs on to what is most grateful (or most visible). However, for the layman, the drama of the alpine environment is captured quite suggestively, and the film keeps one’s attention up to the end credits. (19/12/2004)