Vertical Limit is a 2000-action adventure movie directed by Martin Campbell. It follows a man who must conquer his fear of heights and mountain climbing to rescue his sister who is trapped on K2, the ...

(CNN) -- "Vertical Limit" tests the outer boundaries of human tolerance and endurance. But it's not a test of the emotional or physical limitations of the characters on screen in this action/adventure ...

Laced with more jaw-dropping cliffhangers than Election 2000 and cursed with twice as much mind-numbing silliness, “Vertical Limit” is a movie that’s split right down the middle. If you were forced to ...

Super industrialist Elliot Vaughn (Bill Paxton) gets stranded with his team in an ice cave inside one of the world's most dangerous mountains. Peter Garrett (Chris O'Donnell) is a National Geographic ...

About halfway through the megabudget mountain climbing adventure Vertical Limit, even the most rugged, thrill-hungry fans of disaster movies may find themselves going numb. Not from the howling ...

…until poor Annie ends up falling into a crevasse. To make matters worse, the crevasse is on K2, the second highest mountain in the world. She was supposed to be guiding the fabulously wealthy Texan ...

The cliffhanger is back. Vertical Limit may be a bit oxygen-deprived when it comes to character development, but it compensates with nail-biting, stomach-churning feats of death defiance on the slopes ...

What’s your favorite? So many to choose from, but I like this preposterous climbing scene: Tom Cruise, after taking at least three seconds to study his predicament several hundred feet up on a Utah ...

There’s something to be said for picking the right profession. Sitting at a computer and punching numbers, for example, won’t get you trapped in a narrow, icy cave, 26,000 feet high on K2, the world’s ...

Vertical Limit starts off with Peter Garrett (O'Donnell), his sister Annie (Tunney), and father Royce scaling a mountain face in sunny Arizona or Utah or some shit. It's all fun and games and ...

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I’m scared of heights. I’m so terrified that I can remember, perfectly, holding on to the arms of my seat during a trailer for one of Disney’s “Love Bug” comedies. It featured a relatively prosaic ...