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Cliffhanger (1993) 6.4
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Metascore: 60/100
Reviews: 164 user | 73 critic | 16 from Metacritic.com A botched mid-air heist results in suitcases full of cash being searched for by various groups throughout the Rocky Mountains. Director:Renny Harlin |
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| Cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Sylvester Stallone | ... | ||
| John Lithgow | ... | ||
| Michael Rooker | ... | ||
| Janine Turner | ... | ||
| Rex Linn | ... | ||
| Caroline Goodall | ... | ||
| Leon | ... | ||
| Craig Fairbrass | ... | ||
| Gregory Scott Cummins | ... | ||
| Denis Forest | ... | ||
| Michelle Joyner | ... | ||
| Max Perlich | ... | ||
| Paul Winfield | ... | ||
| Ralph Waite | ... | ||
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Trey Brownell | ... | |
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Whilst crossing a ledge, 4000 feet above the earth, Gabe's friend's equipment fails to work and she slips out of his hand, falling to the ground. Almost a year later, Gabe is asked to go back to the same mountain range and rescue a group of 'stranded' people. The only catch is that these so called 'stranded' people are in fact looking for three boxes filled with $100,000,000 and they need a mountain ranger to lead them to them!! Written by Michael Feller <Reb@magna.com.au>
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Language:
EnglishRelease Date:
28 May 1993 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
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Budget:
$65,000,000 (estimated)Gross:
£7,834,921 (UK) (13 August 1993)Company Credits
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70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints)| Dolby Digital (35 mm prints) (Europe)| Dolby SR (35 mm prints) (USA)Color:
Color (Technicolor)Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1
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Hal Tucker: If your looking for Qualen, try about 4,000 feet south of here. He'll be the one wearing the helicopter.
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Carolco had originally signed Renny Harlin to direct Gale Force (1999), a "Die Hard-in-a-Hurricane" action movie. The special effects proved too difficult at the time, so he was persuaded to direct Cliffhanger. See more »Goofs
Visible cables holding the crashed helicopter to the cliff. See more »Quotes
[to the FBI]Hal Tucker: If your looking for Qualen, try about 4,000 feet south of here. He'll be the one wearing the helicopter.
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I'm far from a Sylvester Stallone fan and I guess the only time I really appreciated his appearance was in the French movie Taxi 3, which is an almost inexistent small role. And yet I must admit that this movie was actually not that bad, even though I feared the worst.
When Gabe (Stallone) fails to rescue the girlfriend of one of his friends and she plunges to her death from a 4000 feet high mountain top, he can't possibly force himself to keep working as a mountain ranger. For almost a year he doesn't set a food in the reserve, but than he returns. Soon after he's back, they get an emergency call from a group of hikers who got trapped in a snow storm. At least, that's what the rangers believe. In reality it is a group of robbers who crashed with their airplane in the mountains after their daring plan to steal cases full of money from a flying government plane failed. The cases are spread all over the reserve and they need the help of professional climbers to retrieve them...
This is of course not one of the most intelligent movies ever, but in its genre it's an enjoyable one. I especially enjoyed John Lithgow as the evil master mind and leader of the gang of robbers. I know him best from the TV-series "3rd Rock from the Sun", but I enjoyed his performance in this movie as well. Overall the acting is OK, it had a lot of action to offer and of course also some one-liners, but it also offered a very nice decor. This movie was filmed in a magnificent natural environment. I loved the snowy mountains and valleys, the mountain rivers and the forests... Perhaps that's why I give this movie a score higher than what I normally give to an action / adventure movie of this kind. I give it a 6.5/10. If you don't expect too much, this is an enjoyable movie.