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Cliffhanger (1993)
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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....
| Release Date: | May 23rd, 1993 |
| Running Time: | 113 minutes |
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$84,049,211 (US)
$255,000,211 (World) |
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Cliffhanger Movie Review by Zara  (4/3/2007) |
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Sly got a little bit smarter over the kind of action movies that he wanted to make when he got into this movie, straying away from the typical super macho characters and going for a man who was slightly emotionally disturbed after dropping his friend's girlfriend to her death while they were out mountain climbing. The bad...
(complete Cliffhanger review by Zara)
| Cliffhanger Movie Review by Jarrod (5/10/2009) |
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Some action movies are only as good as their villain, but thankfully, 'Cliffhanger' has a great one. This is, I think, one of Stallone's best, certainly one of his most enjoyable, in part because of Renny Harlin, a well-worn vet of the genre, who really knows how to frame and execute an action sequence, but, the main...
(complete Cliffhanger review by Jarrod)
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