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The General's Daughter
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FilmPG-132000
Vertical Limit
Directed by Martin Campbell
Trapped near the summit of K2, the world's second-highest mountain, Annie Garrett radios to base camp for help. Brother Peter hears Annie's message and assembles a team to save her and her group before they succumb to K2's unforgiving elements. But, as Annie lays injured in an icy cavern, the rescuers face several terrifying events that could end the rescue attempt -- and their lives. From TMDB
54 reactions from 2 sources (Bluesky, TMDB reviews) · newest Oct 27, 2026 · last updated Oct 28, 2026 · How this works
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Vertical Limit is a 2000 adventure action thriller film, directed by Martin Campbell, starring Chris O'Donnell, Robin Tunney and Bill Paxton.
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54 of 54 · most liked firstIf you're seeking out a really stupid movie about death zone rescues, you want Vertical Limit, not Cliffhanger
positive · AI labelView post →FUN FACT: This McDonald's ad was later loosely adapted into the 2000 film VERTICAL LIMIT.
neutral · AI labelView post →I love it in movies when they say the title of the movie, like in Entrapment when Catherine Zeta-Jones says "this is called entrapment" or in Vertical Limit when Scott Glenn says "you're at the vertical limit" or in It when all the characters say "it" a lot.
neutral · AI labelView post →Hathor is enjoying the movie Vertical Limit. It is an action movie weekend I guess
neutral · AI labelView post →Vertical Limit was a very unrealistic movie for how safe they made the ascent up K2, and how sane they made the climbers.
negative · AI labelView post →Obsessed with how Temeura Morrison (of Jango/Boba Fett fame) is in the movie Vertical Limit where he plays a Major in the Pakistan Army and absolutely does not even try risking an accent. Just a Māori lad with a helicopter, never you mind how he got there.
neutral · AI labelView post →#NovemberMovieChallenge Day 15 - mountain climbing in a movie Vertical Limit #filmsky #moviesky
neutral · AI labelView post →1. Go Spain 2. I got sick as soon as I got locked out of bluesky. Coincidence? 3. Vertical Limit is the best worst movie I’ve ever seen 4. I saw a bobcat 5. The biggest spider I have eber seen in my classroom 6. There was a baby gecko in my house
positive · AI labelView post →4 of 4! Sugarland Express was pretty good. Goldie Hawn & Ben Johnson were both very good in it. I love Alan Ladd & Veronica Lake in both This Gun for Hire and The Glass Key & each movie has great supporting casts. Vertical Limit is great. I particularly liked Scott Glenn in that movie.
positive · AI labelView post →I watched Vertical Limit with a cinema full of mountaineers, some of whom worked on the film. it was raucous!
neutral · AI labelView post →Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Toy Story 3 Remember the Titans October Sky Enchanted Unbreakable Beetlejuice The LEGO Movie How to Train Your Dragon Casablanca James and the Giant Peach Kubo of the Two Strings Jurassic Park Vertical Limit Mystery Men
neutral · AI labelView post →There's this shitty movie called "Vertical Limit" (2000). I was on a first (and only) date with a girl I worked with. The opening scene was hilarious bad acted... what really cracked my shit up was the cut to the bird and dad splatting. LOL in a dead silent theater. youtu.be/ddBYM9J4D2k?...
negative · AI labelView post →I’d say a good chunk of people only see big budget studio movies, so that’s their only frame of reference. They’re not the ones watching Boggy Creek 2 or The Brain That Wouldn’t Die. They need some bad movie education. Mine’s probably Warriors Of Virtue or Vertical Limit.
neutral · AI labelView post →My ★★★ review of Vertical Limit on Letterboxd boxd.it/57CTeh #FilmSky 📽️
neutral · AI labelView post →The relief I felt when he was at the top was palpable. On the complete opposite end of the spectrum, so bad it’s good climbing movie I’ve always had fun with is Vertical Limit.
positive · AI labelView post →Losing my ‘Vertical Limit’ virginity. Any film that begins with a dispute about the actuality of MacArthur Park—an almost verbatim echo of an exchange between myself and my fiancé the first time that I sung it to him—gets an immediate thumbs up from me. #nw
positive · AI labelView post →The surprise film is VERTICAL LIMIT, an absolute turkey of a film. Packed house and it’s such a risible film that it turns into a group MST3K experience where we ROASTED the film live. Ended up being tons of fun
negative · AI labelView post →Listened to a podcast about Vertical Limit this week and it reminded me how ridiculous this movie is. So naturally, my best friend and I are continuing our Extreme Summer with Vertical Limit tonight.
neutral · AI labelView post →#MayMovieChallenge May 16th: Mountain climbing in a movie Vertical Limit (Martin Campbell, 2000) This was the only movie I could think of. I don't watch a lot of mountain climbing films I guess? #filmsky #moviesky
neutral · AI labelView post →using MOVIE as an acronym, recommend 5 films Mind Hunters Overboard Vertical Limit Identity Ernest Goes to Camp 🎥
neutral · AI labelView post →I saw Vertical Limit in a movie theatre full of climbers. When the hero said, "K2 isn't like other mountains! It's got ice at the top, and snow, and rocks!" someone said a bit too loudly "What does he think is at the top of mountains?" and everyone laughed so hard we missed the rest of the scene.
neutral · AI labelView post →Cliffhanger!!! The director of the IMAX Everest movie, David Breshears, was one of the stunt climbers and camera operators for this movie. Not as much fun as Vertical Limit though.
positive · AI labelView post →Watching Vertical Limit and this movie remains one of my favorites.
positive · AI labelView post →Has Mo watched VERTICAL LIMIT? It's a great B-movie. I watched it in a slightly alarming setting - an overnight ferry. It added to the experience.
positive · AI labelView post →Also make sure you check out @msmithfilmblog.bsky.social on Original Montana Film Guide podcast to talk about Mike and Mike favorite, Vertical Limit! open.spotify.com/episode/2qFX...
neutral · AI labelView post →Vertical Limit is such a 2000s film it's mind blowing.
neutral · AI labelView post →Hitch is a fun Rom-Com Armageddon is a classic of the disaster movie genre (favourite bit is how the denouement turns america into the 1950s visually) Have not seen Vertical Limit in ages but remember digging it in Jr High
positive · AI labelView post →The (movie) Vertical Limit is available today on (iTunes) (US) for $4.99 Cast: Chris O'Donnell, Bill Paxton, Robin Tunney, Scott Glenn, Izabella Scorupco, Temuera Morrison Trailer & Reviews : www.rottentomatoes.com/m/vertical_l...
neutral · AI labelView post →This week on our Cold Movie Month, we climb K2, because it was the style at the time. We watched Vertical Limit! Remember when Chris O’Donnell opened blockbusters? Also, stupid movie, but makes you miss Bill Paxton. How will Vertical Limit hold up? www.podbean.com/ep/pb-5k9ts-...
negative · AI labelView post →Oh wow! That's a different movie. I was talking about the movie "K2" from 91. Now I'm totally watching Vertical Limit tonight. I had no idea!
positive · AI labelView post →If memory serves there's a Wages of Fear subplot in the cheerfully B-movie-ish Vertical LImit, with canisters of nitro being hauled up K2 in an attempt to free trapped climbers including Bill Paxton in Elon Musk mode. Extra points for a young Ben Mendelsohn on explodey backpack duty.
neutral · AI labelView post →Day 174 of the 365 Day Film Challenge. Vertical Limit. Great wee film. Bill Paxton ♥️ #365DayFilmChallenge #VerticalLimit #BillaPaxton
positive · AI labelView post →#NowWatching Cleaner with Daisy Ridley (2025) Sucker for a film from director Martin Campbell, like Casino Royale, The Mask of Zorro, GoldenEye, The Foreigner with Jackie Chan, Vertical Limit, Edge of Darkness & more Looking thrilling Support includes Clive Owen
neutral · AI labelView post →Currently watching the hit movie from the year 2000, Vertical Limit
neutral · AI labelView post →Vertical Limit (2000) 6/10 Opening scene made me want to stop watching. The rest of the movie wasn't bad. Bad decisions after bad decisions. At least the action was continuous.
neutral · AI labelView post →The (movie) Vertical Limit 1080p (iTunes)(AU) AU$7.99 (Action) (iMDB) 6.3 Cast: Chris O'Donnell, Bill Paxton, Robin Tunney, Scott Glenn, Izabella Scorupco, Temuera Morrison
neutral · AI labelView post →#MayMovieChallenge Day Sixteen: Mountain climbing in a movie Vertical Limit
neutral · AI labelView post →The (movie) Vertical Limit 1080p (iTunes)(AU) AU$7.99 (Action) (iMDB) 6.3 Cast: Chris O'Donnell, Bill Paxton, Robin Tunney, Scott Glenn, Izabella Scorupco, Temuera Morrison
neutral · AI labelView post →Vertical Limit (2000) this is an insane way to start a film. makes Up (2009) look tame.
negative · AI labelView post →Ever seen the rock climbing movie Vertical Limit? I saw it in the theater and the girl next to me was freaking out the whole time.
neutral · AI labelView post →The (movie) Vertical Limit 1080p (Prime)(US) $7.99 (Action) (iMDB) 6.3 Cast: Chris O'Donnell, Bill Paxton, Robin Tunney, Scott Glenn, Izabella Scorupco, Temuera Morrison
neutral · AI labelView post →🎬 The Top 4 Action Movies Released on December 8! What's your fave? 1. The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan 2. Sudden Impact 3. Vertical Limit 4. Mythica: A Quest for Heroes Check out all 50 movies released on this day at https://todayinmovies.com #TodayInMovies #Movies #Film #Action
neutral · AI labelView post →I thought this was going to be a climbing movie in the vein of Vertical Limit. Turns out it was a meetcute for two of the top five snipers in the world
neutral · AI labelView post →When a rock face climb robs “Peter” (Chris O’Donnell) and sister “Annie” (Robin Tunney) of their nobly sacrificing father, rather than abandon their climbing the siblings immerse themselves in ever more dangerous challenges - and few can be more so than the Himalayan K2. With wealthy Americans willing to pay millions of dollars for permits to ascend, this could prove lucrative even if some of them are so reckless as to put everyone’s life at risk on their search for adrenalin. One such…
neutral · AI labelView post →After rewatching both "Cliffhanger" (1993) and "Vertical Limit" (2000), my opinion is that Vertical Limit is a better movie, but Cliffhanger had better acting. 🎬
positive · AI labelView post →he started in Vertical Limit, the greatest climbing film of all time, and realized he'd peaked* and then quietly retired because of respect for the art form *haaaa "peaked" get it because it's about climbing
neutral · AI labelView post →The AI will have been trained on Vertical Limit (the movie)
neutral · AI labelView post →i dunno why but my mom's partner from the early 2000s, when i was a little kid, was obsessed with the film Vertical Limit, which isn't even that good it does have Bill Paxton in it though...
negative · AI labelView post →Is Vertical Limit the dumbest movie about mountain climbing? It fucking might be.
negative · AI labelView post →If you want red bull stunts as action film why not pick Vertical Limit? Its better than Point Break for that stuff. I wouldnt call either of them action films though they’re both great films.
positive · AI labelView post →Next up Emotional Disaster Movie Vertical Limit (2000)
neutral · AI labelView post →Almost bought a blu-ray of Vertical Limit in Goodwill because that is a movie I really like for reasons I don’t understand even though it isn’t very good at all.
neutral · AI labelView post →A Fun Time but overKILL to the Extreme I had high hopes for this film after seeing the thrilling opening sequence in Monument Valley, Utah; but, alas, it was not to be. THE STORY: A famous female climber gets stuck in an ice cave with two others near the top of K2, the second highest mountain on Earth. Her brother, who has sworn off climbing because of his father's climbing death, has no choice but to assemble a team to rescue the trio. WHAT WORKS: As already mentioned, the opening sequence is…
neutral · AI labelView post →Some parts were dumb (the nitro bombs for instance) and the CGI not always the best (albeit this was 20 years ago, so some forgiveness) but I liked the cast, Bill Paxton, Robin Tunney and Scott Glenn especially, and thought all in all was an entertaining enough survival-thriller. 3.25/5
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