Cliffhanger
Cliffhanger was a 1994 comeback of sorts for action hero Sylvester Stallone, this time thanks to director Renny Harlin (Die Hard 2 and Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master) and some spectacularly rugged and vertigo-inducing high- mountain terrain. The opening sequence alone delivers what the title promises, and there's a doozy of an airplane stunt that was later reprised, with modifications, in Air Force One. Stallone, looking as tough and craggy as the mountains themselves, is a rescue climber who finds himself going after a gang of crooks (headed by John Lithgow in his bad-guy mode) who've hijacked a U.S. Treasury plane and crash landed in the Rockies (played by the Italian Dolomites) with millions of bucks. Outrageous action-packed, snow-packed, and scenery-packed chase sequences (featuring whirring helicopters, whooshing skis, popping gunfire, and clanging pitons that earned the movie Oscar nominations for sound and sound editing) take full advantage of the digital video disc's Dolby Digital 5.1 sound. --Jim Emerson
Shop Now »»
Permalink: dealnay.com/123124
Last updated: October 25, 2009, 12:40 pm
Cliffhanger Cusomter reviews:
Average Rating: 4.0 Total Reviews: 72
(Victor B. Elstad, 2009-06-17) A VERY GOOD MOVIE DESPITE SOME DRAWBACKS. STALLONE CAN'T ACT, AND LOOKS WORSE WITH AN OTHERWISE GOOD CAST. SOME OF THE SETS LOOKED FAKEY.
(D. A. Wade, 2009-02-22) This is a great movie, one I can enjoy more now that surround sound and large TV's are around. An oldie but a Goodie :)
(R. LANE, 2009-02-09) From the beginning where the belt buckle is obviously sawed almost in half the movie just goes down hill.
(One-Line Film Reviews, 2009-01-03) The Bottom Line: A preposterous movie about people in teeshirts climbing up and down snowy mountains with a cardboard-cutout performance by Stallone in the lead and a generic villain, Cliffhanger does not deserve to be watched, owned, or recommended.
(john m mozuke, 2008-12-28) Stallone is unbelievable as a bodybuilder/mountain climber. He doesn't look like a mountain climber. He does climb like a mountain climber and he stinks as an actor. And the one bad guy who screams ever line of his ("FETCH") is really irritating along with the stereotypical British accent bad buy stolen straight from Die Hard. This movie is just Stallone garbage. I only wished that Michael Rooker would have reverted to his Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer character and that he would have stabbed Stallone in the eyeball with a hair dressers teasing comb and then ate his big stOOpid head.