(There are Spoilers) Not at all that bad cliff-hanger type of movie with some stunning photography, which the maker of the film didn't skimp on, and a lot of unintentional laughs. That had you feeling at times that it was a comedy not a serious crime drama. What I can't understand is why the movie ended with the Mr. Big behind this caper is only not apprehended but even exposed? It's as if he, it could well have been a she, never existed at all! This after were told over and over by the head law enforcement agent in the movie Agent Burrard, J. Douglas Stewart, just how important this person is!
The bad guys in "Final Ascent" aren't exactly a bunch of master criminals in that their so wacky and incompetent that they end up not trusting each other feeling, correctly, that there's an undercover DOJ, Department of Justice, agent in their mist. Even worse the head guy who comes across as being the most incompetent of them all Viggo ,Patrick Muldoon, who then in his paranoia and inability to grasp what exactly is happening kills by kicking him out of a plane the very person Ray, Byron Lucas, who has the 30 million in government bonds that he and his gang ripped off. Viggo's act of madness and stupidity has Ray and the bonds land on top of an 10,000 foot high snow capped mountain in the frozen Rockies!
Trying to get to the bonds Viggo and his boys get to join this mountain climbing group who are scaling the mountain where they landed on, Mills Peak. It's then when the fun really begins to happen with Viggo losing it, together with his gang of hoods, as they get closer and closer to their objective, the 30 million in bonds. As the air gets thinner and thinner and Viggo & Co. brains get more and more, due to the thin air, swollen until he completely freaks out and ends up free-falling, without his precious bonds, to his death some 10,000 feet below.
There's also a side story, that's no where as funny but much more interesting, in "Final Ascent" that has to do with the head climber Beth, Heidi Levhert, and her dad Paul, Jurgen Prochnow, together with her boyfriend the hunky and handsome David, Antonio Sabato. All end up surviving this disastrous climb in that they besides having to put up with Viggo and his gang had to overcome their, Beth & Paul, on personal guilt. Beath & Paul felt responsible in the death of, Beth's sister and Paul's daughter, Mary ,Kimberly Warnat, who fall to her death on the same mountain,Mills Peak,at the start of the film.
The bad guys in "Final Ascent" aren't exactly a bunch of master criminals in that their so wacky and incompetent that they end up not trusting each other feeling, correctly, that there's an undercover DOJ, Department of Justice, agent in their mist. Even worse the head guy who comes across as being the most incompetent of them all Viggo ,Patrick Muldoon, who then in his paranoia and inability to grasp what exactly is happening kills by kicking him out of a plane the very person Ray, Byron Lucas, who has the 30 million in government bonds that he and his gang ripped off. Viggo's act of madness and stupidity has Ray and the bonds land on top of an 10,000 foot high snow capped mountain in the frozen Rockies!
Trying to get to the bonds Viggo and his boys get to join this mountain climbing group who are scaling the mountain where they landed on, Mills Peak. It's then when the fun really begins to happen with Viggo losing it, together with his gang of hoods, as they get closer and closer to their objective, the 30 million in bonds. As the air gets thinner and thinner and Viggo & Co. brains get more and more, due to the thin air, swollen until he completely freaks out and ends up free-falling, without his precious bonds, to his death some 10,000 feet below.
There's also a side story, that's no where as funny but much more interesting, in "Final Ascent" that has to do with the head climber Beth, Heidi Levhert, and her dad Paul, Jurgen Prochnow, together with her boyfriend the hunky and handsome David, Antonio Sabato. All end up surviving this disastrous climb in that they besides having to put up with Viggo and his gang had to overcome their, Beth & Paul, on personal guilt. Beath & Paul felt responsible in the death of, Beth's sister and Paul's daughter, Mary ,Kimberly Warnat, who fall to her death on the same mountain,Mills Peak,at the start of the film.