The scenery is magnificent and the white-knuckle action well handled...

It has a plot so unlikely and confused that we can't believe it for much more than 15 seconds at a time, but its action sequences are so absorbing and its mountaintop photography so compelling that we don't care.

...the good stuff in The Eiger Sanction is largely in the star power and photography, which was butchered for the small screen but still looks like a real movie in 2026. Unfortunately some of the attitudes on display have dated…

Doesn't feature much of a mystery, with Eastwood's dry, unhurried directorial style at odds with the demands of the superspy genre. It's a tepid thriller, best appreciated as a travelogue with periodic bursts of violence.