the movie shows little regard for the native culture. But that in itself taps into its traumatic aspects of the narrative, imbuing it with shades of a horror movie where reckless kids venture into the woods and never return
Kormakur's camera is frustratingly reluctant to explore any particular view of it for long, and perhaps for that reason you never quite feel like you're there yourself
in narrative terms it's messy - as true stories tend to be. The dramatic focus is split between around half a dozen characters based on real people and it's not clear who we should root for
Baltasar Kormakur, the director of the underappreciated 2 Guns, stages all of the high-altitude chaos effectively, if a bit too chaotically. At times it's confusing (especially if you haven't read Into Thin Air) who's where and who's still alive
by Peter Bradshaw [The Guardian ]
