Amazon.co.uk Review
Give Hollywood a star cast, a towering, ice-gripped mountain and a cliché-ridden script and one thing is certain: somebody's going to get hurt. And while many critics believe the real casualties are those film goers who have shelled out for this cliff-hanging snow job, let's not overlook the work of scorer James Newton Howard whose solid efforts accounted for keeping the film's pace and action sequences on track. His score here alternates from the rhythmically ethno-exotic (most dangerous, ice-gripped mountains littered with dead and dying Hollywood characters being located in faraway locales) to the traditional Hollywood suspense and drama. Often using his typically seamless fusion of the symphonic and the synthetic, Howard's professional work here is solid and purposeful, as dynamically driven and diverse as the film is staid and predictable. --
Jerry McCulley