I thought it would be absolute pants, but it wasn't.

Rating: 7/10 (10 November 1999)

OK, Seven Years in Tibet. It sounds like its going to be a bit of a four hour epic and you get a bit aprehensive before you start, but honestly there is no need to at all.
Brad Pitt, our lead for the film, is an Austrian climber and a member of the pre-ww2 nazi party. He is married and has a child due in less than a month, so what does he do he runs off to climb a mountain. Thats obviously what you'd want to do.
His character is absolutely arrogant and you don't like him at all. The film then centres upon this and shows us how he develops with time and the factors that influence this change. His son is born without him present and due to the lack of love he expresses to his wife she divorces him. Pitt is then arrested at the start of the war and breaks free from a prison camp and final stumbles into Tibet and the sacred city. Well we don't want to give it all away, so I'll stop all that plot development stuff right there.
The big stunts, high adrenalin action is not there in this film at all. But it doesn't suffer at all as a result. To me this film is all about the script and the characters in them. Pitts performance is brilliant, the best that he has ever given. There is nothing that you don't believe about the way he portrays his character. The way he develops it throughout the film is great to watch. When you couple this with the true story on which it is based you have a great film on your hands.
Well worth a watch, who'd of thought it.