Amazon.com video review:
Cliffhanger was a 1994 comeback of sorts for action
hero Sylvester Stallone, this time thanks to director Renny Harlin
(Die Hard 2 and Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream
Master) and some spectacularly rugged and vertigo-inducing high-
mountain terrain. The opening sequence alone delivers what the title
promises, and there's a doozy of an airplane stunt that was later
reprised, with modifications, in Air Force One.
Stallone, looking as tough and craggy as the mountains themselves, is
a rescue climber who finds himself going after a gang of crooks
(headed by John Lithgow in his bad-guy mode) who've hijacked a
U.S. Treasury plane and crash landed in the Rockies (played by the
Italian Dolomites) with millions of bucks. Outrageous action-packed,
snow-packed, and scenery-packed chase sequences (featuring whirring
helicopters, whooshing skis, popping gunfire, and clanging pitons that
earned the movie Oscar nominations for sound and sound editing) take
full advantage of the digital video disc's Dolby Digital 5.1
sound. --Jim Emerson
Amazon.com video review:
Cliffhanger was a 1994 comeback of sorts for action
hero Sylvester Stallone, this time thanks to director Renny Harlin
(Die Hard 2 and Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream
Master) and some spectacularly rugged and vertigo-inducing
high-mountain terrain. The opening sequence alone delivers what the title
promises, and there's a doozy of an airplane stunt that was later
reprised, with modifications, in Air Force One.
Stallone, looking as tough and craggy as the mountains themselves, is
a rescue climber who finds himself going after a gang of crooks
(headed by John Lithgow in his bad-guy mode) who've hijacked a
U.S. Treasury plane and crash landed in the Rockies (played by the
Italian Dolomites) with millions of bucks. --Jim Emerson
