Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.

I watch many horror films on the Horror channel and most are dreadful (e.g. Camel Spiders) whilst a few are genuinely entertaining - this to my mind is one of the entertainers; even with sub-titles! Basically the first half is a tense climbing film and the second half is a better-than-average slasher film.The Good: 1. The acting was excellent, scenery stunning, the climbing well filmed and, refreshingly, the characters were not a bunch of annoyingly moronic teens drinking and partying themselves to an early grave; although I did find Luke irritating at times and rather immaturely (but manfully) I thought Chloe extremely sexy with her low-cut top and kept hoping for more......2. I find sheer drops and hanging over precipices bowel loosening so for me this film gains credit for delivering two types of scares: the hanging-from-a-rope-over-a-2,000ft-drop type and the someone-is-hunting-me type; though the first scared me more.3. The fight scenes on 'the rock' were bloody, brutal and the characters looked as if they were fighting for their lives (apart from item 2 in the 'mildly annoying' below).4. The use of sound to induce dread; the dentist drill as the first girl was killed, the sound of steel instrument being drawn and the thud of bodies as the two climbers hung in the cellar.The Mildly Annoying: 1. Why was Fred running through the trees when he was caught in the trap? Why did he not immediately throw down the rope to the climbers below? 2. An inability to finish the job. Both Luke and Chloe die because they were not willing to kill the killer. Luke had the advantage when he was hitting the killer on the head with a stone. Why throw away that advantage (literally) and crawl to the edge of the precipice? Chloe decided to show compassion and leave the killer alive behind her.3. Is it likely that the killer could loosen or cut a steel cable (carrying Chloe) with what looked like a small home-made knife? Overall a superior film of its genre and well worth a watch.

High Lane is set in the Croatian mountains where five friends decide it would be a good idea to spend the day climbing sheer cliff faces & navigating across the hazardous terrain. Experienced climber Fred (Nicolas Giraud) is the main man but he manages to convince his four friends including his girlfriend Karine (Maud Wyler) to carry on despite the mountain pass being closed & warning signs clearly visible, Fred's friends trust his judgement & decide to ignore the warnings. A few hours into their climb the five get into trouble & things go from bad to worse as Fred is caught in a Bear trap & dragged off by some inbred mutant killer who then goes after the other five teens in a fight for survival in the open wilderness who will win?This French production was directed by Abel Ferry & is best described as some predictable & generic cross between the Sylvester Stallone action flick Cliffhanger (1993) & the backwoods brutality teen slasher Wrong Turn (2003) without being nearly as good as either, shot under the title Vertige this really is & plays out exactly as it sounds. The script is uneven, the first half of High Lane is devoted purely to climbing cliff's & walking across perilous looking bridges & has an adventure film feel about it while the second half of the film switches gears & turns into a teen slasher of the most generic kind with some mountain freak killer stalking & killing the teens off as the rock climbing & adventure angle is totally dropped. With the usual clichéd mix of annoying teen character's & a killer with no motivation or background whatsoever High Lane doesn't have a lot going for it apart from a reasonable pace & one or two nicely shot sequences. Character motivation & behaviour is difficult to understand at times, why did the one guy try to leave the other behind to be killed? Why did the guy let the other go at the end & fall to his death? When Chloe feel down the pit why didn't she shout back up to her friends who were calling down to her? Why ignore all the warnings in the first place? Who was the killer? Why did he kill? Who built his house? Why does he not get a single line of dialogue in the entire film? As you might expect the teens are killed off by their own stupidity & the inbred killer until only one tough female survivor is left before a nothing sort of ending that leaves literally everything up in the air & unresolved. A very unsatisfying end to a very average & predictable teen slasher that tries to wrap itself up in an adventure film but both aspects come across as disappointing & High Lane ends up being neither one thing or another.Filmed on location in Croatia by a French cast & crew this is dubbed & is currently available as a free instant download on Netflix which is the only fate it really deserves as I wouldn't have liked to have spent money on it. There are a couple of decent moments like the rope bridge walk but they are few & far between I'm afraid, the gore is fairly restrained with a leg caught in a Bear trap, a couple of people are shot with arrows, there's a decapitated head & a slit throat but not much else & even the killer is forgettable as he just looks a dirty old man. The scenery & locations are nice to start off with as the makers use lots of sheer cliffs but once the slasher aspect kicks in the action switches to a standard woodland setting.Filmed in full 2:35:1 widescreen this looks nice enough as I have said with decent production values but there's nothing memorable here. The film is badly dubbed throughout so it's hard to judge the acting but I doubt it was great to begin with.High Lane is a throughly predictable, clichéd & uninspired teen slasher that throws in a few unrelated adventure film aspects that end up feeling out of place with the two different genres never gelling into anything particularly enjoyable. Sure it's competent & is't terrible but I can't say I liked it that much. There are much better films out there.

What is it with France lately. Really, they are making flicks I really like. I remember a time when they only made blah blah movies. If you have seen The Descent then this one is one you are going to like, only they don't descent but they climb. A bunch of friends are out for a hike and by doing that they would like to climb some mountains. But they are unlucky. The pass to the mountains is closed but hey, it's a horror so they ignore it and start climbing. The shots made while climbing are fabulous. If you have fear of heights than you will have it in some shots. But of course something goes wrong. They are making too many risks and happen to become isolated on a rock. And from there on the f lick really starts. I can only tell you that it's going to rock (what's in a name) hard and typical for a french movie there is no happy ending. The blood flows frequently and sometimes even gory. The movie also is here and there really brutal. I just can understand why nobody is talking about this flick. It's just great, the only thing I don't get is the flashes our main actress gets from a hospital. But after all, this one is straight in your face...another gem from France

The teenagers Fred (Nicolas Giraud), his girlfriend Karine (Maud Wyler) and their friends Chloe (Fanny Valette), William (Raphaël Lenglet) e Luke (Johan Libéreau) travel to Croatia to climb and hike along the day. They find the starting point closed with rocks but the experienced climber Fred convinces the others, including the coward Luke that has a crush on Chloe and wants to be close to her, to cross the tract climbing the mountain. Along their journey, they realize that the trail is more dangerous than they thought: the rope bridge collapses after their crossing and the handle in the mountain is busted. Fred climbs with Karine to help their friends but he is wounded in a bear trap. Karine uses a rope to bring their friends to the top, but they do not find Fred that has disappeared. When Chloe falls in a hole with a trap, they question what do people hunt in that isolated spot. When they discover the truth, their entertainment turns into a fight to survive."Vertige" has a breathless beginning with the adventure of the group of five friends in the Balkans. In the first half of this movie, the plot is very tense and I do not know how far the actors and actresses have climbed or crossed the rope bridge in times of CGI, but the result is effective with excellent scenes and camera work and I was nervous with the situation of the poor guys. Unfortunately the second part of the story is a violent collection of clichés "à la The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and many other sub-products of the slash genre. Luke is an annoying character and the final decision of Chloe with the fate of Anton is simply ridiculous. My vote is six.Title (Brazil): "Vertigem" ("Vertigo")