Audiences get an icy adrenaline rush from wild stunts and impressive special effects. It s an entertaining way to explore moral issues with teens. Sadly, many families will never venture out into the cold. And for good reason. The film includes numerous profanities, vulgar sexual references, an obscene gesture and a graphic shot of a man urinating.
Alcohol use is also a problem.
Portrayals of spiritual zeal are not Christian, and one man dismisses all faiths because they contradict each other. Most of Vertical Limit s violence involves nature s wrath. Falling from heights. Freezing to death. Men are blown into precipices by raging avalanches and blown up when the sun ignites canisters of nitroglycerine.