Gabe Walker is the leader of a mountain rescue team who loses his nerve after witnessing an amateur climber fall to her death. When a group of ingenious fugitives survive a plane crash, and take his ex-girlfriend and his former climbing partner hostage, Walker must overcome his fears and climb the mountain to take on the well-armed gang.
Thieves led by Eric Qualen hijack a $100,000,000 delivery en route to a Denver credit union. Their plan to transfer the money mid-air to collaborators in another plane goes awry, and the hijackers crash land and lose the money in the surrounding mountains. They radio for help, and former ranger Gabe Walker and his partner Hal Tucker answer the call. Qualen and his men have a high-tech tracking device that shows them the locations of the three cases of missing money, but they need help traveling through the mountains, so they force Gabe and Hal to be their guides. Forced to scale a rock face in the middle of a snow storm, Gabe grabs some of the money and escapes. Gabe knows Qualen will kill Hal as soon as Qualen has the remaining cash, so, with fellow ranger Jessie Deighan, Gabe tries to reach the money before Qualen does.
AWARDS:
- ASCAP Film and Television Music Awards
1994 Won "ASCAP Award"
Top Box Office Films: Trevor Jones
- Academy Awards, USA
1994 Nominated "Oscar"
Best Effects, Sound Effects Editing: Wylie Stateman, Gregg Baxter
Best Effects, Visual Effects: Neil Krepela, John Richardson, John Bruno, Pamela Easley
Best Sound: Michael Minkler, Bob Beemer, Tim Cooney
- Awards of the Japanese Academy
1994 Nominated "Award of the Japanese Academy"
Best Foreign Film
- Cinema Audio Society, USA
1994 Nominated "C.A.S. Award"
Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Feature Film: Bob Beemer (re-recording mixer), Michael Minkler (re-recording mixer), Tim Cooney (production mixer)
- MTV Movie Awards
1994 Nominated "MTV Movie Award"
Best Action Sequence: For the opening catwalk sequence.
- Razzie Awards
1994 Nominated "Razzie Award"
Worst Picture: Alan Marshall, Renny Harlin
Worst Screenplay: Michael France (also story), Sylvester Stallone