Bobby Spencer

Captivating to say the least. The story alone makes you pause and reflect on what it means to be in a situation where you are truly and utterly vulnerable to the nature of the climate, your own humanity, and spirituality. This movie was made with all the respect for the families and every attention to detail shines through within each scene. The cinematography juxtaposes the height and mass of the mountains compared to the shelter of the plane. You can’t help but be breathless with each struggle the characters face, and it’s almost other worldly that this actually happened. Every actor brought their characters to life, and even the voice actors in the dubbed version gave just as much to the story. Some dubbed movies just don’t work, but this one I believe did. Well done to the mixing engineers for sure. With each scene showing how they survived (no spoilers), I was glad and relieved they didn’t go all out with the gore and it again showed respect from the director, actors, and everyone involved. You get what is happening without seeing something that would take away from the movie as a whole. Sometimes less really is more. Another point that I appreciated is each character is seen as a person and not just background. They’re all depicted as brave, honest, willing, intelligent, and most of all heroic in the face of their worst fears come true. Of course their are the main leaders of the group that shine through more, but they still sit evenly when all together pushing to survive. Five stars for sure, and I would even go out on a limb and place this movie in a top spot on my favorites of all time. Not sure when or if I’ll ever watch it again, but I know that seeing the horrific real past through the lens of this movie was nothing short of inspiring.