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starring: Sylvester Stallone, John Lithgow, Michael Rooker, Janine Turner, Rex Linndirected by: Renny Harlin
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780767849593
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Original recording reissued, NTSC
ISBN: 0767849590
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Release Date: May 01, 2001
Running Time: 113 minutes
Sales Rank: 35825
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: May 28, 1993
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
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. Treasury plane and crash landed in the Rockies (played by the Italian Dolomites) with millions of bucks. --Jim Emerson
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - 2 stars out of 4
The Bottom Line:
A preposterous movie about people in teeshirts climbing up and down snowy mountains with a cardboard-cutout performance by Stallone in the lead and a generic villain, Cliffhanger does not deserve to be watched, owned, or recommended.
Rating:  - The Steroidal Mountain Climber
Stallone is unbelievable as a bodybuilder/mountain climber. He doesn't look like a mountain climber. He does climb like a mountain climber and he stinks as an actor. And the one bad guy who screams ever line of his ("FETCH") is really irritating along with the stereotypical British accent bad buy stolen straight from Die Hard. This movie is just Stallone garbage. I only wished that Michael Rooker would have reverted to his Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer character and that he would have stabbed ... Read More
Rating: - good action movie
It's not overly realistic and it should be in the guinness book for most uses of the F word, but the mountains are beautifully captured and the story is interesting. Lithgow is a scary cold-blooded badguy and, for the fans, there are lots of shots of Stallone's creatine-sculpted arms. I don't like heights and this movie certainly had me on edge in that regard.
Rating: - Flaws aplenty...but the action is so solid that it makes this film well worth a look!
It's been a dozen or more years since I last saw CLIFFHANGER, but on a whim the other night, I took a new look at it. Boy, times have sure changed!
This exciting action-adventure was made before backgrounds could be computer generated. I remember that when it came out, it seemed fresh, gritty and realistic. Now it is painfully easy to see how many of the scenes are played against fake backgrounds made of Styrofoam, or worse yet, against blue screens. When characters are flying in ... Read More
Rating:  - Why? Ehh...
I really wanted to like this movie. I rock climb, and I love Stallone movies, but I gotta know if anyone else thought the overuse of the F-word got obnoxious. For the first thirty minutes or so I was like, "OK whatever, the word does sound pretty hard core I guess." An hour later when they were still throwing it around like tomatoes at the La Tomatina festival, I wanted to turn it off and didn't for the sake of seeing how it ended. The action is GREAT! My only complaint is with the F-bombs. Oh, ... Read More
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