Finding Michael

This doc film charts Spencer Matthews' quest to find the body of his brother who dies near the peak of Everest. There's a lot that's beautiful - particularly the footage of the mountain and the story of Michael who seems like a wonderful human. What lets it down is Spencer's lack of emotional depth, as he seems nearly throughout to see this as an exciting &wide-eyed adventure, not a deep, personal experience it ought to be. Moreover, watching Nims bounce across the mountain 'body-hunting' just feels in really bad taste, and disrespectful to all that die there. Left a sour taste, if I'm honest.

So you go on an expedition to find the body of your brother after 20 years based in a picture and you do not even check with the people which have the most knowledge??

The documentary is just bizarre and completely nonsensical poorly written and with things said which are not accurate ......this is clearly just done for visibility ...the 2 star is only because of some sporadic nice pics of the mountains.

Poorly portrait situations and the whole documentary just is has this vibe of fake or strange ...the narration is also very subjective on things which are not .

All in all a completely waste of time and towards the end stopped listening all together.

It started out as a sympathetic story, and of course, it is a family tragedy. As we watched, my husband and I were wowed by the spectacular houses the family lived in as much as the Everest climb. What do these people DO for a living? We wondered how they carved out the time to plan and make the trip. Do they work?

The real story came out well into the movie, when they shared that their 22-year-old son climbed Mt Everest wearing a Rolex watch. And the real story is the tone-deafness of the family and filmers. The movie is silent on the subject of the family affluence set against the poverty of the Sherpas. It's no sin to be rich but own the privilege! Talk about the cost of the expedition, the Sherpa's compensation, the risks they took -- make the story about the Sherpas as much as the other characters -- they are the real heroes here.

The "well, as long as we're up here" return of the Sherpa body was distasteful. Filming weeping children. Honestly.

I have to agree with many of the other statements made here. I was really looking forward to this film and then I spent the whole film thinking, wow...the Matthew's family must have loads of money to have been able to afford to send Michael up Everest...and then, two decades later, have so much money, Spencer could easily travel to Nepal and pay other people to go trekking for his body. The search must have cost a fortune...

And then, in top of that, so much of the gravitas that could have been in the film was ridiculously edited out, making the blurred bodies a huge distraction of silliness. Whomever thought THAT was a good idea should be fired and never allowed to work in film again.

This film could have been so much more, but it ultimately just came across as a little vapid.

I wanted to like this.

I didn't realise the guy who is in the film was in Made in Chelsea. That should serve as a warning if you choose to watch it.

Ultimately this misses the mark which is shame as it should be about the loss of a life on Everest and emotional journey in trying to recover the body. Unfortunately the family lack any emotion and therefore no connection with the viewer. The is no detail as to how Michael lost his life which in later research is due to the family taking legal action against the company that took him there. Very little detail on the actual team making the recovery. The only emotional part is in poor taste with a Sherpa's family near the end.

The part which should have been a good news story just came across as a contrived act pulled together in haste to get some plot and emotion back into the film. It just made me angry and disappointed that I was still watching. You can see the discomfort on the face of Spencer at the situation which was one of the only times he shows some real emotion. Surely realising the same thing.

This really shouldn't have been made. If you want to watch an interesting film about recovering a lost climber. Watch Torn.