Fall (15)
Cast: Virginia Gardner, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Grace Caroline Currey, Mason GoodingGenre: Thriller
Author(s): Scott Mann, Jonathan Frank
Director: Scott Mann
Release Date: 02/09/2022; 04/09/2026 (selected cinemas)
Running Time: 107mins
Country: UK/US
Year: 2022
Becky, her husband Dan and best friend Hunter are rock climbing when tragedy strikes. Dan loses his grips and plummets to his death. Becky wallows in grief and her father James fears he may lose his daughter forever. Out of the blue, Hunter reestablishes contact with a proposal: to spread Dan's ashes from the top of an abandoned 2,000 feet TV tower in the middle of the desert. As the friends reach the summit, the structure of the tower is compromised.
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Fall (15) Film Review from LondonNet
Gravity kills in the aptly titled Fall, which suspends disbelief 2,000 feet in the air atop an abandoned TV tower, where two best friends become stranded a little over half an hour into director Scott Mann’s dizzying survival thriller. The stakes are stomach-churningly high in a lean and ruthlessly efficient script co-written by Jonathan Frank and Mann, which defies common sense to cajole two female protagonists to the pinnacle of a rust-eroded needle in the middle of a desert in memory of a fallen spouse…
Once co-stars Grace Fulton and Virginia Gardner have finished spouting platitudes (“You are so much stronger than you think you are!”) and reality bites, Fall asks us to hold on tight as stricken yet resourceful characters engineer ways to attract attention to their precarious perch. As a breathless thrill ride, Mann’s picture maintains an assured grip through some risible interludes like one heroine instantly thinking of social media when the tower’s structure disintegrates (“I wish we’d filmed that!”) or the fleeting menace posed by a pair of voracious vultures.
Whirling camerawork jangles the nerves of anyone who suffers from acrophobia and distracts attention from some storytelling sleight of hand that lands with a satisfying thud. In a vertiginous, coolly executed opening sequence, Becky (Fulton), her husband Dan (Mason Gooding) and best friend Hunter (Gardner) are rock climbing when tragedy strikes. Dan is startled by a bird nesting in a handhold and plummets to terra firma.
Almost a year later, widow Becky is a booze-sodden, emotional wreck, who is dodging telephone calls from her deeply concerned father (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and contemplating an overdose of pills rather than endure another day without her soulmate spouse. Hunter has been monetising her daredevil antics on social media under the gnarly moniker Danger D and she re-establishes contact with Becky on the anniversary of Dan’s death with a daring proposal to spread his ashes from the top of the B67 TV tower, supposedly the fourth tallest structure in America. Embracing her late husband’s nonsensical mantra (“If you’re scared of dying, don’t be afraid to live”), Becky attaches herself to Hunter with 50 feet of rope and the pals clamber 1,800 feet up an internal ladder within the tower’s cage frame, followed by a 200 feet climb of an external ladder to the summit. The structure is fatally compromised, stranding Becky and Hunter at the top with no way down.
Fall does exactly what it says on the rusty tin, putting two thinly sketched characters (who are entirely to blame for their high-rise misery) through the wringer with sadistic glee. Sympathy is in short supply despite Fulton and Gardner’s best mascara-smeared efforts to tug heartstrings. Logic base jumps before Becky and Hunter reach the summit.
-Jo Planter
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