Fall movie review -- Breakfast All Day
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ต.ค. 2024
- Hang on tight and don't look down. Christy Lemire (RogerEbert.com, @christylemire) and Alonso Duralde (The Wrap, Linoleum Knife, Maximum Film, @aduralde) have a review of "Fall," a thriller that'll have you squirming in your seat if you're afraid of heights. Directed by Scott Mann, written by Mann and Jonathan Frank. Starring Grace Caroline Currey, Virginia Gardner, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Mason Gooding.
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Christy: "This is as high concept as it gets"
I see what you did there
Ha, no pun intended!
"wouldn't you say 'f*ck' every other word if you were stranded at the top of a tower?"
"i was, in the theater!"
classic. 😂
Ha!
I really appreciated this film's use of dream sequences. I assumed they were all there just to pad the runtime and provide awful fake scares, but they actually held a legitimate storytelling purpose by the end.
Very true.
I was laughing so hard at the plot that it kept me from being scared after they reached the top of the tower. You could tell they were fighting the California smoke, but it looked great and couldn’t tell too much CGI was used.
Glad you saw it!
I disagree about the seems not being viewable. Especially in the beginning scene there is some very poor green screen work. However after that scene it is never bad enough to take you out the movie and it was well worth watching.
I just recently watched this again with a friend. Upon a rewatch, it gave me a lot of THE DESCENT vibes in terms of the tension, both height and personal.
No monsters are in this film. The Descent was scary enough without them, as is this, but it's scary af, just like getting lost spelunking with a person you don't quite trust.
I wouldn't climb, or cave dive even if Tom Cruise himself told me he had my back lol 😬.
This film has just opened here and agree with yr review. Stress inducing! Shallows/47 Metres down meets Cliff Hanger. Loved it.
Glad you enjoyed!
This movie was sooooo good. Enjoyed every min of the thrills.
So glad!
Fall sounds somewhat similar to The Ledge (2022, directed by Howard J Ford,) about a group of rock climbers who get murdered one by one in the woods. The last female survivor escapes by climbing up onto a ledge on a mountain where she is tormented by the killers who are lurking above her at the top. It's also really well done with nerve-wracking cinematography that had me squirming in my seat.
These are all very stressful!
Enjoyed this review saw it on a bug screen terrifying and unpredictable and wow just 3 million budget
Thanks for watching! Yeah, they really accomplish a lot with a little here.
I vomited during The Walk, and felt myself beginning to panic just watching the trailer for Fall. Not sure I could handle it.
Yikes, this might be a tough one for you!
Usually it is a horror/thriller that sounds so good, but the carnage or violence is beyond my capacity to absorb without PTSD. This movie does sound intriguing. I get on the 3 level of my kitchen step stool and I react badly. Thank you Christy and Alonso, you have found yet another movie that will be on my streaming (not Theater) queue.
Let us know how it goes!
Was very effective the way the film (screenwriters) present the set-up's (the truck passing by really fast and then destroying something in the third act and also that thing for the battery). Well, really enjoyed.
Yes, some fun payoffs!
Seems like a fun, little movie.
I like high-concept survival stories, I might check it out.
Are you guys gonna review the rings of power series? I'd love to hear your take on it.
Let us know what you think!
I would like to see this film in a theater but I have a fear of heights so I'm not sure if I want to because of that. Though I could probably handle it.
Christy and Alonso! Haven't seen you two reviewing movies in a while, so glad I stumbled across this channel! Think it was TYT where you were before? Maybe? You guys are awesome.
I did really like the movie except the ending. After being stranded on a pole for 3 days with sun damage, starvation, dehydration, exhaustion, food poisoning from eating raw bird, and an untreated gash in her leg that maaaaaybe they would have rushed her to the hospital? Apparently she was fine with just a blanket and she went home with dad. Maybe they went out eat afterwards. ;)
Besides that though, that was one exciting and stressful movie. And I really liked the twist. Now time to go binge watch your other reviews. :)
Woo hoo, so happy you found us, Johnny! We've been here for about four years now. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
I took a flyer on it and really liked it a lot
Great!
I’m with Dave. The trailer had me saying NOPE more than NOPE did 😭.
This should’ve been called In The Heights II: The Fall.
It is very stressful!
I love this review I think a lot of people didn’t appreciate the film as much as you guys. I personally loved it so much I’ve watched it twice. Yes it has reused ideas but still the plot and story is good
Glad you enjoyed it too! Thanks for watching, Angela.
Some incredible footage was caught here and there's real tension. My one turn off was the twist (SPOILER). The film jumped the shark at that point: when we find out Hunter was really dead, and Becky was imagining her being alive. It brought in a supernatural element that didn't fit the survival story. Even mentally ill people rarely have visual hallucinations. It's almost always auditory hallucinations. Plus hallucinations are brief and inconsistent. It's never a fully realized speaking human being. So a ghost appearing could only be supernatural. Despite this I still enjoyed it.
That did feel like a bit of a cheat, but the movie is fun.
@@BreakfastAllDay that final plot twist was a cheat. And honestly it surprised me because they had built up the tension well till that point. They were going great. I do not think a plot twist was required. Especially at that point. Kind of reminded you of 47 metres down.
I personally think that while it It does add some shock value it leaves the overall narrative poorer. In fact Becky's death would have had a more profound impact had it been shown in normal progression, and then the lead shown to could have survive to honor her friends effort. That twist just seemed an easy survival route for the lead and for the movie to reach an end.
Or she could have survived. That too could have worked. But I guess the makers did not screenplay to sustain the tension. That one final challenge that was to be presented to the 2 ladies did not come. It was disappointing because the fight of the 2 ladies to survive was really the high point of Fall and really held the movie together. And it was quite tense.
The set up and back stories also did not impress much. I really did not understand the reason for adding the back story, Maybe the makers though that merely an survival story would not carry the emotional depth but Fall through its tight screenplay, good production values and earnest performances of its 2 leads had actually done really well with its core idea. I only wish the movie had a better climax. I give this a 7, for its unique plot, some genuinely well executed survival scenes, and good performance from its leads.
@@brajeshsingh2391 Good points, thanks Brajesh!
Never heard of this till last week, and bought it on Amazon for £1.99... pretty great little gem of a movie really, very entertaining and an unusual "thriller". Really well done especially for a small budget movie, I think this will become a real cult movie. 8.3/10
They accomplish their goals very efficiently here!
I saw the movie in a theater. It's funny, i don't consider myself to have a fear of heights. I can fly in an airplane or visit the top of the Empire State building without breaking a sweat. But remove the sense of security, and that triggers the anxiety. If you put me on one of those really high swing rides at a theme park where your feet dangle, I get very, very, very nervous. If I fear I MIGHT fall, yikes. Suffice it to say, the movie did a number on me. Really solid little potboiler that I hope gets more attention.
Glad it worked for you! Yes, that feeling of possibly toppling over the edge is traumatic.
The fact that after a year of drinking and letting yourself go this woman could make the ladder climb let alone any other climbing and after not eating for days.Dont even start on the fact the girl on the platform was watching her friend leap for a rope she could have moved with her hand to the other side of the platform.
Ha, you kinda have to go with it!
I was a little disappointed by the ending, it felt like they skipped over about 10 mins of climax and we only saw the resolution. Other than that, I agree with everything here, a very efficient and effective experience
Thanks for your thoughts!
I AGREEE!!! When they showed *SPOILERS******************
The girl on the ground with the ambulances and stuff I was like wait huh? They’re not gonna show them get her down?
@@averyjennett9810 I didn’t need to see the helicopter. They didn’t need to spend the money for a helicopter. It’s good as is.
Not having seen it yet, I’m not sure how closely the whole movie conforms to it, but when I saw the trailer for this in the theater it reminded me a lot of that movie where the young adults got stranded on a ski lift. For a claustrophobe like myself, it would have the same impact being trapped no matter what the situation. (Was that ski lift movie called Frozen?…No, not *that* Frozen.)
Indeed, and not a place where you'd want to ... let it go.
_"It is as high concept as you can get."_
I see what you did there.
Totally unintended!
I thought summer was over for a sec
Nope. There's still a little bit of summer.
I know everyone has their own opinions but I never felt like they were on that tower. Also the plot twists were really dumb. With out getting into too much spoilers why wouldn't she have taken off the other shoe without the tattoo. I had a few more issues with story and how predictable it was but I don't want to spoil it. 🤷♂️
The plot twists are indeed dumb.
Ahhh, this is nothing! Watch Alex Honnold in FREE SOLO!!!! Who climbed El Capitan in Yosemite, with zero cables and safety net!!!!!!! And he did it for real!!!!
That’s 3,000 feet above the valley floor, it is 2.5 times as tall as the Empire State Building, or more than 3 times as high as the tip of the Eiffel Tower!!!
Yes, and he did it FOR REAL!!!!!! With just his Bare Hands!!!!!!! Free Solo!!!!
Seen it many times -- I moderated several Q&As with Alex and Jimmy, and watched Alex get mobbed like a rock star in the lobby of the Cinerama Dome. It was a blast. -- Christy
reviews oh my god so jealous of you and your career and getting to meet such incredible inspiring people doing insane things and having lived insane lives
@@JLamstudio I saw it in the D-BOX theater although I didn’t pay extra for the shaking seat. The screen in that theater is almost as big as the IMAX screen.
@@nikitamohanan2124 Ha, we are very boring, middle-aged people, but thank you 😄
@@FameyFamous That sounds stressful!
I think this took place in California instead of Arizona.
Hmm, maybe. It was definitely shot in California but the characters live in Arizona. Thanks for watching!
@@BreakfastAllDay maybe so I would love to watch it again.
My husband is scared of heights and I used to refer to this kind of thing as a "testicle tightener." I'm looking forward to watching this. He said he'd give it a try but can't promise he'll finish it.
Let us know how it goes!
This was sooooo enjoyable. Was sweating the whole time. I gave it an 8 also =)
Glad you had fun too!
@@BreakfastAllDay who says August is a bad month for movies? Haha that and Emily the Criminal are really good =)
So I think after two 47 Meters Down movies and this it's time for the producers or writers if their the same to try something else besides this stuck in a life threatening situation concept, towers, killer sharks! Where do you go from there?
It's a pretty reliable premise!
The set up sounds a bit like The Descent, without the eventual creepy creatures
Similar! There are some creatures eventually, though.
The acting was pretty bad, and there’s no way these two girls can climb up a mountain or a tower, but I liked the idea.
It's a fun, simple concept and they executed it well!
Even hearing them discuss this is making me turn away. This is the kind of movie that has no room for the meek. Consider me meek.
It's OK, Neil! This is a safe space 😄
there are youtube videos of people (w/ helmet camera) doing real climbing on real 2,000 ft antenna doing real work. watch those instead of what sounded like melodrama with fake, made up 'thrills'.
It is possible to enjoy both! Thanks for watching.
The vfx were TERRIBLE
You think so? They seemed to achieve quite a bit on a low budget.
@@BreakfastAllDay certainly the budget was an issue and I don't fault the people who worked on it but it looked really bad on a lot of shots. One or two before the title card and then a lot of the wide shots later on
Wow! To each his own- I thought it looked INCREDIBLE (especially for a $3 million dollar budget). The only time I noticed “effects” was when the husband fell off the mountain in the start and when the ladder started falling apart. Otherwise- INCREDIBLE looking.