The Eiger Sanction

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The Eiger Sanction

R

1975

2h 9m

Adventure

Mystery & Thriller

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Former government assassin Jonathan Hemlock (Clint Eastwood) now devotes his time to teaching and collecting paintings, but his quiet life is interrupted when he is persuaded by his former employers work for them again. Hemlock has to join a crew of explorers (George Kennedy, Jack Cassidy) on a trip up the Eiger, a treacherous Swiss mountain. Hemlock must simultaneously determine which of his fellow climbers is a Soviet spy, kill his target and scale the deadly peak.

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Joe Clay

Times (UK)

The scenery is magnificent and the white-knuckle action well handled...

Aug 8, 2022

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Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

It has a plot so unlikely and confused that we can't believe it for much more than 15 seconds at a time, but its action sequences are so absorbing and its mountaintop photography so compelling that we don't care.

Rated: 3/4

Oct 23, 2004

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BBC.com

Rated: 2/5

Apr 17, 2001

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Steve Warren

The Barb (Atlanta)

A poorly contrived spy story with enough cliches to fill 90 minutes, but not enough to fill the holes in the plot.

May 9, 2023

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Dennis Harvey

48 Hills

There is indeed some great climactic Swiss Alps footage in this espionage tale, but the film runs an awkward gamut from supervillain cartoonishness to straight thriller. Its loutish humor also indulged its maker's (and audience's) worst tendencies...

Dec 4, 2020

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James Clay

Fresh Fiction

It's a wild ride, and for all the flack Eastwood gets for being a bland filmmaker these days, he sure had no problems taking risks earlier in his directing career.

Rated: B-

Nov 19, 2020

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James F

What a clunker of a movie. It takes an hour before they get to the mountain climbing, and there some of the visuals are really cool. But this has almost nothing to recommend it otherwise. It has a half-cooked/low-rent James Bond vibe, you do not care about any of these characters and the plot is silly and uncompelling. It is a bad movie from the 1970s, that would be better forgotten than watched. If you are expecting a 70's version of "Cliffhanger" but with Clint Eastwood, you will be disappointed.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

05/15/24

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Tibor F

Talk, talk, talk endlessly. 34 minutes passed, nothing happened, so I skipped this film.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

04/21/24

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Alec B

One of Eastwood's sillier efforts. It has impressive stunt work but the plot seems needlessly convoluted.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

02/21/24

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Cathy J

I enjoyed seeing the climbing and landscapes and the thought of Eastwood doing all his stunts. But the dialog and acting sometimes fell flat.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

11/27/23

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Mike W

The movie is full of poor acting and poor script. It was difficult to make it past the first half. The only saving grace was the scenery.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

11/24/23

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Eye C

The James Bond approach from Eastwood it's a boring thing to watch, one hour to begin with the mission and then the ending it's anticlimactic. But there's one interesting thing, it's not just James Bond no, it's resemblance very much to Indiana Jones and that make this the original Indy, but boring.

Rated 2 out of 5 stars

10/09/23

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Synopsis

Former government assassin Jonathan Hemlock (Clint Eastwood) now devotes his time to teaching and collecting paintings, but his quiet life is interrupted when he is persuaded by his former employers work for them again. Hemlock has to join a crew of explorers (George Kennedy, Jack Cassidy) on a trip up the Eiger, a treacherous Swiss mountain. Hemlock must simultaneously determine which of his fellow climbers is a Soviet spy, kill his target and scale the deadly peak.

Director: Clint Eastwood
Producer: Robert Daley
Screenwriter: Hal Dresner, Rod Whitaker
Production Co: Malpaso Company
Rating: R
Genre: Adventure, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): May 18, 2016
Runtime: 2h 9m
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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