Snowy Way 2: Avalanche Wrath. From the director who once staged an erotic version of Pinocchio, one would expect a secondary, but occasionally funny and exciting treshak, but it did not work out, did not fartanula. The film turned out to be very dull in content and doomed at the stage of preparations for filming, when Roger Corman, known for his economy, bordering sometimes on outright stinginess, cut the already not the highest budget of the Avalanche, eliminating even the illusion that this picture supposedly had to compete with the rest of the disaster films, which in the US of the 70s had a real boom ("Poseidon Adventures", "Hell in the Heavens", "Earthquake", "Airoport" cycle).
Therefore, the only notable star of “Avalanche” was Mia Farrow – Rock Hudson in those days was already at the end of fame, and Robert Forster on the contrary – just beginning. So there will be no old-school Hollywood committee here, just these three faces and a handful of lesser-known actors who will bother to get caught in an avalanche. This cataclysm occurs in the middle of the film (the first half of the authors sincerely believe that we will be interested in the characters and their characters (spoiler: no, will not)), looks, to be honest, not very and passes rapidly, like a real avalanche, but we will make a discount - Roger Corman, all things. Okay. So what will fill the timeline in the second half? It goes without saying that these will be survivors’ attempts to get out from under the snow rubble and other types of rescue operations, but this did not affect me personally. Who was there and from where I dug up the drum, for I repeat: the local heroes did not hook me and I am not interested in anything.
Bottom line: The Avalanche's only hit scene is actually an avalanche in the middle. It's framed by the efforts of actors that we barely know how to give us characters that we're not interested in. Well, it's just amazing what else can be said. Of course, the movie doesn’t automatically become a total shit because of it – there are some places where the soundtrack is beautiful (not all!) In some!), the mountain landscapes are beautifully filmed - well, at least because it is not beautiful to remove them - you need to manage, but a committee of three screenwriters did not bother (or tried to work, but could not) to provide live, human, really sympathetic characters, such as in Hell in the Heavens, thereby ruining the whole picture, because on the scenes of the disaster alone it would be almost impossible to leave here - not because of budget constraints, but rather because the avalanche itself is fast, decisive and long does not last.
Very boring spectacle, which is an attempt to lubricate to the then popular trend, but this task failed. With no scale, no interest in what's going on, no explanation of what the three writers were doing instead of really providing the script with interesting situations. Very amateur, maybe someone will appreciate highly, but it certainly will not be me.
4 out of 10