Charlize Theron and Taron Egerton take viewers all over the Australian wilderness in their new thriller, APEX, which began streaming on Netflix today.
Directed by Icelandic filmmaker Baltasar Kormákur, with a screenplay written by Jeremy Robbins, APEX stars Theron as Sasha, an experienced climber grieving the death of her husband (played by Eric Bana). She embarks on a solo hiking-and-kayaking trip in the Australian wilderness, where she meets a friendly local (Egerton) who offers her travel tips. But when she follows the route he suggests, she quickly realizes he isn’t friendly at all. He’s a deranged serial killer, and he wants to hunt the most dangerous game: her.
Theron, a seasoned action star known for doing her own stunts, leapt off cliffs into pools of water and dangled off the side of a mountain, hundreds of meters above the ground. Some of the movie was filmed on sets, but
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