Visually impressive and well-researched, The Summit certainly stirs up the terror and mystery that attended that disastrous weekend.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 27, 2013

The Summit picked up an editing prize at Sundance, which you can only surmise was awarded because the film does a fine job of leaving you as confused as the people on K2.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 25, 2013

The subject is fascinating and the cinematic punch afforded by peaks so massive, inspiring with their terrible beauty is a filmmaker's dream.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 24, 2013

It still works as a cautionary tale of man vs. nature hubris, but the endgame finger-pointing among survivors, their families, and one amazing Nepalese sherpa leaves the viewer frustrated.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 18, 2013

You have a tangled story being told by director Nick Ryan and writer Mark Monroe in a somewhat tangled way. The result isn't as much confusing as it is distracting.

| Original Score: C | Oct 18, 2013

First-time director Nick Ryan isn't entirely up to the challenge in "The Summit," but he does deliver some dramatic and visual highs in the attempt.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 17, 2013

At once repetitive and puzzling. There is a lot of finger-pointing. Assertions are made, theories offered, but not much in the way of certainty.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 11, 2013

There's something unsettling about a real-life tragedy presented as an action film; that the filmmakers never acknowledge this is more unsettling yet.

| Oct 10, 2013

It's frustrating not to know exactly what occurred when, how and to whom. Of course, some of this is due to the fact that nobody really knows everything that happened, except, as someone notes, the mountain itself.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 10, 2013

"The Summit" is an impressive achievement, but there's a good reason to ask whether cameras are turning the planet into a playground for the reckless rich: because it's there.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 10, 2013

A film that feels curiously hollow.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 10, 2013

Nick Ryan's documentary The Summit pieces together the fateful expedition utilizing newsreel footage, new and old interviews with the climbers and their associates, and, regrettably, re-enactments.

| Original Score: B- | Oct 4, 2013

At once visually impressive and narratively unfocused.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 3, 2013

A complex and gut-clenching human drama that has the great advantage of all being true.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 3, 2013

A pulse-pounding success.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 3, 2013

Director Nick Ryan mixes in re-creations and actual footage to tell of an ill-fated climb involving an international group of established mountaineers.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 3, 2013

Director Nick Ryan dramatizes this horrific tale through a variety of hindsight interviews from survivors and the dead's loved ones, footage shot by the climbers during their mission, and staged recreations ...

| Original Score: B | Oct 3, 2013

As you watch these actors, you appreciate the endeavor the climbers went through all the more-and as triumph turns to tragedy, you feel the grief winding its way through your shaken nervous systems.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 1, 2013

It's a noble effort, but by wading into the murky waters of who acted heroically, and who, perhaps, did not, Ryan loses touch with the mountain itself ...

| Oct 1, 2013

A gripping, cliffhanger document of a deadly trek up the most dangerous mountain on earth where 11 climbers lost their lives.

| Jan 22, 2013