Post by Dracula on Dec 26, 2022 22:05:42 GMT -5
Fall(12/13/2022)
Not all movies are going to aspire to greatness and I like to think there’s still a place for the well done B-movie in the world and this year’s high concept thriller Fall seems to fit the bill of a movie that does that. The film focuses on a mountain climber whose husband has died in a climbing accident and her friend wants to get her “back on the saddle” by having her climb to the top of this outrageously tall television antenna while she documents the stunt on her Youtube channel. All goes according to plan until they get to the top and start trying to climb down only to have the ladder down collapse on them, trapping them at the top. From there they need to find a way to survive the conditions and come up with some way to either get down or send a signal to the ground. That’s a neat little twist on the fairly familiar isolated survival genre alongside the likes of Open Water, The Shallows, Frozen (the one on the ski lift), or Beast. The film was made on a modest budget but mostly has convincing effects and does give that sense of vertigo that it’s going for. The film’s stars (Grace Caroline Currey and Virginia Gardner), are not really names I’m terribly familiar with but both of them do a decent job of getting you on board with them even if they’re not exactly “deep” characters. I would say that this is a movie that you most likely know whether you want to see if from the trailer, it more or less delivers on what it promises. It doesn’t really go above or below your expectations for it.
*** out of Five
Not all movies are going to aspire to greatness and I like to think there’s still a place for the well done B-movie in the world and this year’s high concept thriller Fall seems to fit the bill of a movie that does that. The film focuses on a mountain climber whose husband has died in a climbing accident and her friend wants to get her “back on the saddle” by having her climb to the top of this outrageously tall television antenna while she documents the stunt on her Youtube channel. All goes according to plan until they get to the top and start trying to climb down only to have the ladder down collapse on them, trapping them at the top. From there they need to find a way to survive the conditions and come up with some way to either get down or send a signal to the ground. That’s a neat little twist on the fairly familiar isolated survival genre alongside the likes of Open Water, The Shallows, Frozen (the one on the ski lift), or Beast. The film was made on a modest budget but mostly has convincing effects and does give that sense of vertigo that it’s going for. The film’s stars (Grace Caroline Currey and Virginia Gardner), are not really names I’m terribly familiar with but both of them do a decent job of getting you on board with them even if they’re not exactly “deep” characters. I would say that this is a movie that you most likely know whether you want to see if from the trailer, it more or less delivers on what it promises. It doesn’t really go above or below your expectations for it.
*** out of Five
