Everest is a throwback to the old Hollywood adventure epics of yore, where you had a group of people, slogging it out in the toughest of terrain. The quest here however is not for some hidden gold or an ark, nor do the characters have to face rolling boulders or snake pits. The characters here are more driven by the motivation to climb the world’s tallest mountain, why, "Because it is there". Everest does not really have any villians, the characters here have to battle something more tougher, Mother Nature herself. Based on the true life 1996 Mount Everest disaster, when 8 people were caught in a blizzard, the book "Into Thin Air"was a first person account of the disaster.
Visually speaking, the movie is a delight. The camera work beautifully captures the Himalayas in all their glory, and some of the scenes involing the precipitious drops, and canyons, can leave you dizzy.
That said, most of the characters remain rather under developed, this is a movie where the mountain peaks overshadow the human characters. Or maybe it was the director’s intention to show the might of Nature against human beings. All said and done, if you are tired of duelling robots, invading aliens or meteors crashing into earth, go for this movie, a perfect spectacle of human drama, emotion set against Nature.