Eiger sanctioned

Nordwand (North face)

Crit

Wow, yeah, this is compelling all right, when the guys are up there on the mountain in an impossible situation, with blizzard and avalanche and frostbite and unwise earlier decisions to cope with, but just because something's based on a true story doesn't make it exempt from melodrama, and this is melodramatic out the whatever-the-German-is-for-wazoo. Speaking of German, my favorite thing I learned from this film is that Wednesday = Mittwoch (aka Humpday).