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The Devil's Climb (2024)

Documentary | 75 minutes
3,40 15 votes

Genre: Documentary

Duration: 75 minuten

Country: United Kingdom / United States

Directed by: Renan Ozturk and Drew Pulley

Stars: Alex Honnold and Tommy Caldwell

IMDb score: 7,3 (1.332)

Releasedate: 17 October 2024

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The Devil's Climb plot

Alex Honnold and Tommy Caldwell are mountain climbers who embark on an expedition to conquer Alaska's treacherous Devil's Thumb, pushing their limits through perilous climbs over daunting peaks while testing their unbreakable bond in the ultimate challenge.

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Entertaining, spectacularly shot documentary about an expedition to conquer Alaska's treacherous Devil's Thumb. Charismatic mountaineers Alex Honnold and Tommy Caldwell are, as always, good company and their perilous undertaking is a pleasure to watch.

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Damn it.

What a deeply sad spectacle this is. If you can make such a deeply sad film out of two heroes like Honnold and Caldwell, then I can't help but think back to that teacher I had back then, with his standard speech: "if you don't have a talent for this, and you're not prepared to do the work for it, why don't you go on the high seas, then you'll at least see something of the world".

The most obvious mistake that far too many climbing films make anyway - hyping up how unique and impossible a climb is, and then filming it from above. No, no one has ever, ever managed that, except for the cameraman, with a twenty-five kilo thing on his neck. Now I happen to know how that works because I make that kind of footage, but that doesn't exactly make this kind of film any better. Amateurish, is the word that first comes to mind.

But Renan Ozturk can certainly do much better, and that makes it all the more poignant. There must have been a huge amount of goodwill on the part of Honnold and Caldwell to let this monstrosity continue, and perhaps that is also the value we should see in it - the demonstration of unconditional friendship that they show him with this. In the end, they both don't come out very nicely, but not something that comes close to an intended or reasoned way.

Is it that Ozturk is still suffering from the serious injuries he sustained on previous expeditions, or is it just the pressure of big money, to quickly make a lame film for the mortgage. Whatever the case, I really can't do anything with it. It's sad that he apparently doesn't dare to simply trust the power of the real story and the real images. And with that also a value judgment on the integrity of the industry, with National Geographic as its figurehead. How far can you fall.

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