Free Solo (2018) Reviews & Ratings

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Free Solo reviews

Free Solo holds a 7.9/10 average from 1,579 TMDB ratings.

Alex Honnold made a huge feat and this documentary shows it to you in an excellent way. It never lets you go and at all times I was surprised and excited. Deserved winner of the Oscar for Best Documentary.
— Luis_989 (8/10)

Did you see “The Alpinist” (2021) with the audacious, and now late, solo climber Marc-André Leclerc? Well in that nerve-wracking feature there is an interview with Alex Honnold, by then an already successful climber for whom fear held no bounds, explaining just how addictive and dangerous this perilous activity is. This film, made three years earlier, reveals to us something of Honnold’s own fearlessness as we watch…
— CinemaSerf (7/10)

Follow Alex Honnold as he attempts to become the first person to ever free solo climb Yosemite's 3,000 foot high El Capitan wall. With no ropes or safety gear, this would arguably be the greatest feat in rock climbing history.

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