1988s Die Hard is transported to the snowy peaks of the Rocky Mountains in this 1993 action that tells the rollicking good story of mountain rescuers who find that their rescuees are in fact a gang of violent criminals seeking to recover money lost in a plane crash, and the only unfortunate thing is that the movie scatterguns the treacheries of the mountains (bats, glaciers, avalanches, rockfalls, dizzying heights, stalactites) and doesn't instead make use of longer Spielberg-style set-ups designed to heighten the thrills beyond the merely episodic.
★★★★☆
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