The Climb starts off fun, over the top. But it becomes a tedious, boring affair. The characters are so unlikable and such absolute idiots. If the leads had died half way through the film and a completely new movie had started, I would have applauded.

Everything about this film screams "independent." This usually means that the director, screenwriter and lead actor are all one person who can't do anything right, and the result looks correspondingly unfinished. In addition, there are other actors who look like amateurs or are, dialogues are often borderline in the case of a comedy, camera and lighting adapt to the low or now budget feeling. The Climb has all that and I'm just tired of such half-finished, late-pubescent ideas that neither have pace, nor develop real humor or a gripping story.

Some friendships are quite special. Exhausting and terrible at times, but have worked for so many years that they may have developed a dangerous situation that both individuals may not be able to escape from ... but why would they want to you may ask? Is a great friend not everything you can ask for? Maybe and maybe not is the answer, I reckon.

In this case it is not just about friends, it is about what they do to each other and relationships outside their own one. Like with a life partner - not going to say they should share everything ... do not even think that. But you will see through family dysfunction and other oddities ... a low budget movie that can be quite engaging if you let it. Especially if you really roll with the flow of it and with the characters ... no matter how flawed they are .... and a movie that sort of almost ends like it begins ... with one friend not being able to control his emotions and ... well you'll see how others react to that! Not holding back "punches" - as I am not holding back on puns!