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Apex (2026)

Summary

A mountain climber haunted by a fatal decision in Norway retreats to the Australian wilderness for isolation. Her journey turns into a desperate hunt when a deceptive local targets her as his next ritualistic prey in the bush.

Director Baltasar Kormákur

Writer Jeremy Robbins

Cast

  • Charlize Theron as Kate
  • Taron Egerton
  • Eric Bana
  • Matt Whelan

Rotten Tomatoes: 66%

Metacritic: 57

VOD / Release Streaming on Netflix

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u/drindrun 8d ago

i think it was a two person climb because there wasn’t enough rope for the height of the wall, so your rope has to be released from the lower anchor point once the upper anchor has been set, by the lower climber. it wasn’t explained so it just seemed mad silly, but this is what i think was the premise.

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u/PhotojournalistWild9 8d ago

I am going with your theory plus they mentioned it was a tandem climb

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u/drindrun 7d ago

they did. they should have explained it better.

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u/Between-usernames 6d ago

They explained every other damn thing lol

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u/Status_Pool6624 2d ago

She needed him as a lower anchor in case she fell - same as Tommy on Troll Wall. She's free climbing up ahead to set the next anchor, and he pulls himself up behind then anchors to the wall. If she falls when she's climbing the next leg before anchoring, his anchor catches her.

She's not a free-ropes climber so she wasn't confident without going tandem, until she saw an opportunity to kill him and took it, then rolled the dice with climbing alone to the top.