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Everest chronicles the inspiring journey of two different expeditions challenged by one of the fiercest snowstorms ever encountered.

It is amazing that anyone would be confident about climbing Mt. Everest! It is an interesting experience watching a disaster movie where the outcome is known to the viewer before the movie starts: lots of lives lost in a 1996 expedition because of a fierce storm on Everest. Most of the characters are very cocky about succeeding, but what they don’t realize is that nature is very unpredictable up there, and just because some have succeeded in the past does not mean every good mountain climber can succeed at it.

Not everyone has the same physical limitations, agility, or luckiness with nature up there. I found this a fascinating look at the startling contrast between arrogant confidence before climbing the mountain and total devastation after the storm—with extreme irony in that the most foolhardy character, the one who left his family to do this “last” mountain climbing to escape his depression, is among the few survivors. He did face the loss of his nose and both hands as a result, though.

I’m usually a “What’s the point of making this movie” kind of person. I want to know how it’s supposed to make me better to watch someone else’s misfortune. But in the case of this movie, I didn’t care! I just enjoyed how well acted it was and was amazed at how dedicated they were to filming so many scenes in actual snowy mountains.

Nepal, Italy, Iceland, and England were used in the filming, the end credits revealed, or I’d have concluded they used New Zealand like they did on the Lord of the Rings movies. I think while the movie serves as a memorial to those lost lives on the mountain, it also has a direct connection to each of us who thinks we’re capable of exerting more than we really are. It certainly has relevance to people who overcommit themselves in life.

I had a hard time following the “who’s who” in the first half hour, but it came together later for me. Jake Gyllenhaal has to be the most entertaining of the characters to watch, playing a caricature of a hippie as he uses “man” as a regular filler word. There’s always a twinkle in his eye that shows he’s enjoying playing this weirdo guy who knows he doesn’t belong up there.

He’s a guide but is underdressed and in rather weak health, making him perhaps the only person whose death I found humorous (since he probably won’t even know the difference whether he’s dead or alive, as his mind is not altogether “there” anyway). Josh Brolin plays the most foolish character, John Hawkes plays the one whose overachieving leads to the main character’s demise, and the main character, from New Zealand, is played with charisma and sensibility by Jason Clarke.

Keira Knightley does a great job showing the process of grief his wife undergoes. All of ‘em do very well in their performances, including even the gentle Emily Watson, the base camp manager, who seems appropriately confident about her job and worried about the disaster at the same time.

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