Free Solo

National Geographic Documentary Films | Release Date: September 28, 2018

8.1	USER SCORE Universal acclaim based on 107 Ratings

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sakburnMar 26, 2019

the actual climb is insane! i was a getting a bit bored though by all the characters and their opinions on that climb. should have been the other way round - 20 mins of talking and 80 mins of climbing.

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HipsterDufusNov 14, 2018

I usually don't like my documentaries with mostly interviews. It's 80% interviews and back story with about 20 minutes at the end of the climb. It was a 4 hour climb for goodness sakes! You think that the majority of the movie would haveI usually don't like my documentaries with mostly interviews. It's 80% interviews and back story with about 20 minutes at the end of the climb. It was a 4 hour climb for goodness sakes! You think that the majority of the movie would have been just the climb itself not the pretext up to it. I enjoyed it, but I fell asleep 3 times during the first 2/3rds… Expand

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DjakeirFeb 20, 2019

I will never understand why anyone would want to free solo, and this movie does very little in explaining why either. I expected better editing and structure to the film and the film has a very peculiar build up to the final climb, II will never understand why anyone would want to free solo, and this movie does very little in explaining why either. I expected better editing and structure to the film and the film has a very peculiar build up to the final climb, I understand that the camera crew didn't know when he was going to do it but I also expect hindsight to play a part in the final product. Clearly the man in question has a lot of issues and so does the film. The film doesn't really do justice to the high stakes this man went through to reach the top because in the first minute of the film we see him reach the top! Whoever decided to do that is possibly the single worst person to have worked on this movie. Obviously I wanted him to reach the top but I also wanted to experience watching him doing it with the tension everyone else felt when they saw him do it in real life. Why ruin the film? why? Everything he did that was high risk now became underwhlming because you now he did it successfully already. If you make a documentary that records something so extraoordinary as what this man has done and you have to remind yourslef of how incredible it is, someone along the line of this production has slipped and plummeted to the death of their film making career.… Expand

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