++ Anlässlich des Kinostarts von MONA LISA AND THE BLOOD MOON (ab 06.10. bei uns im Programm!) zeigen wir eine Ana Lily Amirpour Filmreihe ... Fr 30.09. um 21.30 Uhr // A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT ... Mi 19.10. um 19.00 Uhr // CLIFFHANGER ... Mi 26.10. um 21.00 Uhr // THE BAD BATCH ... yeah! ++

Renny Harlins 90er-Jahre-Actionkino-Klassiker mit Sly Stallone, dessen Remake Ana Lily Amirpour gerade dreht!

Bergwachtleiter Gabe Walker gibt seinen Job nach einem tödlichen Unfall auf. Trotzdem hilft er nun seinem früheren Kumpel Hal bei der Suche nach den Überlebenden eines Flugzeugabsturzes in den Bergen. Die Verunglückten aber entpuppen sich als Kriminelle, die mit Hilfe von Gabe und Hal eine 100-Millionen-Beute wiederfinden wollen...

"CLIFFHANGER delivers precisely what it promises. It's a big-budget extravaganza with a lot of stunts and special effects. ... True, there's not a moment in the plot that I could believe. That didn't bother me for an instant. CLIFFHANGER is a device to entertain us, and it works, especially during those moments when Stallone is hanging by his fingernails over a three-mile fall, and the bad guys are stomping on him. ...
Movies like this need good villains, and Lithgow makes a satisfactory one. Like a lot of recent movie villains, Lithgow seems subtly effete and dangerously intellectual, and speaks with a slight British accent. He also of course cares for nothing but the money and his own skin, and in the great tradition of all cliffhangers he eventually has to face Stallone, mano-a-mano. ...
The credits mention a lot of stunt persons, who deserve any credit they can get, because many of the most hazardous stunts in this movie were obviously not faked. That stunt man who makes the mid-air transfer between two planes deserves a gold medal. And at one point, we can clearly see that Stallone himself is dangling over a nightmarish fall. Movies like this are machines for involving us and thrilling us. CLIFFHANGER is a fairly good machine." (--- Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times (1993))