... said Dora the Explorer.
And that's basically the most concise and non-spoilery summary of this movie. The premise of a group of climbers going on to conquer a mountain for the national prestige and the omitted question of the water rights between China and Nepal, in a difficult time for the former, seems quite straightforward and attractive to put onscreen. The trouble comes from the fact that the director can't direct anything except the "asadora"*(Morning Drama)-format Korean-style melodrama where the amount of drama must get over the top in the short 13 to 24 minutes runtime because otherwise the TV audiences will switch to something else or some other channel. In other words the movie is a jam-packed cheese cabinet, and at one time you're there furiously googling whether the character had the same fate in reality as compared to the movie, because the suspension of belief (not disbelief) is such that even the most elementary things start to appear doubtful.
My Chinese wife's final words: If, as he said, people complained before for not believing that the Chinese have climbed Everest/Chomolungma, then now they will believe even less, as it just makes everyone appear incompetent
Really 3/10 , saved by the CGI, and I'm guessing the actors like Jing Wu and Jingchun Wang will be ambivalent to having this one in their acting career later on.
And that's basically the most concise and non-spoilery summary of this movie. The premise of a group of climbers going on to conquer a mountain for the national prestige and the omitted question of the water rights between China and Nepal, in a difficult time for the former, seems quite straightforward and attractive to put onscreen. The trouble comes from the fact that the director can't direct anything except the "asadora"*(Morning Drama)-format Korean-style melodrama where the amount of drama must get over the top in the short 13 to 24 minutes runtime because otherwise the TV audiences will switch to something else or some other channel. In other words the movie is a jam-packed cheese cabinet, and at one time you're there furiously googling whether the character had the same fate in reality as compared to the movie, because the suspension of belief (not disbelief) is such that even the most elementary things start to appear doubtful.
My Chinese wife's final words: If, as he said, people complained before for not believing that the Chinese have climbed Everest/Chomolungma, then now they will believe even less, as it just makes everyone appear incompetent
Really 3/10 , saved by the CGI, and I'm guessing the actors like Jing Wu and Jingchun Wang will be ambivalent to having this one in their acting career later on.