Fall (Theatrical and Uncut Version) [Blu-ray]

Gripping film from start to finish, some mild scary scenes. Well worth watching.

Excellent film

It's fun to watch other people doing stupid things. Quite gripping. But needed more rope! Do not try doing anything like this for likes!

I'm scared of heights & the way its filmed WOW. I was on the edge. Very good film tbh

Watching this gave me 'The Willies' so captivating, intense & thrilling Superb film, so glad there's a 2nd just being released in the cinemas I'm scared of heights & watching the 2 girls climbing then being stuck on top of an old 2,000 feet plus T..V. antenna on a big screen with good external speakers, frightened the hell out of me BUY IT 10/10

Fall is directed by Scott Mann who also wrote the script with Jonathan Frank. The DVD has an audio commentary from which I have culled some technical information. The plot: incredibly simple, three climbers, Becky (Grace Caroline Curry), her husband, played by Mason Gooding, and her best friend Hunter (Virginia Gardner), are climbing a rock-face, when the husband falls to his death. Not surprisingly Becky goes into free-fall (no pun intended), and drinks a lot, aggravating her already strained relationship with her father (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), who did not like her deceased husband. 51 weeks later, Hunter shows up, with the proposal that they scatter the husband's ashes from the top of a 2,000 ft radio mast - in order to bring closure, not just for Becky, but Hunter as well and reactivate Becky's love of climbing. They successfully climb the tower, which consists of three sections, the first a triangular structure, with an internal ladder, then a round pillar to which the radio antennae are attached, with an external ladder, leading to a small platform, on top of which is a 30' pole on top of which is a warning light to alert aircraft. They scatter the ashes and attempt to climb down which causes the corroded ladder to the column to fall away, trapping them 2,000 ft above ground - Becky's back-pack falls off and is caught in one of the antenna, 50 or so feet below them. it holds their water and the remote control for the drone they have been flying. The action sequences for the rest of the film are the consequence of their attempts to use their mobile phones to alert anyone of the danger they are in, to get their water and the remote control for the drone. They are experienced climbers, they do not panic but they are making decisions in extremis - they are fallible and they make mistakes. Much more important is what you learn about the two women and what they learn about each other, confined on a 3' platform. This film could so easily just become another Hollywood film where "women are driving the narrative", where they "have agency" and are "strong and independent". In other words they could have been given the emotional depth of cardboard cut-outs. To begin with, although men are almost completely absent from the film, Becky is defined by her relationship with her dead husband and with her father - she has sacrificed the one for the other. Hunter is an adrenaline junky. She lives for extreme thrills and pushes Becky as far as she can physically and emotionally go. She also lives for and through her internet blog: in which she depicts her life as one of boundless adventure seeking and excitement. She uses the drone to complete a blog at the top of the mast (to publish later as there is no signal). As the film progresses the viewer realises that she is defined by her audience (which I guess is mainly men). She pulls her tee-shirt lower and tells Becky this is "click-bait". The climb actually meets Hunter's emotional needs as Becky's. Hunter is also bereaved and she is where she is because of the dead husband and Becky is there because of Hunter. This puts their relationship under considerable strain. A theme running through the film is that technology in itself does not solve problems. The mast is in itself superannuated technology - it is rusting away and serves as a roost for vultures. At 2,000 ft their phones do not send signals and the drone is not able to alert the outside world. After trying to use Hunter's phone (they do not know whether it was able to send a signal), there is no response and Becky says caustically to Hunter, "perhaps your 60,000 followers are not bothered". It is not just the technology that lets them down - so do the only humans who pass by, and their sisterhood breaks down. There is a twist that I did not see coming (indeed I thought everything that happened thereafter was impossible, which is why I listened to the audio-commentary - however on viewing the replay the last part of the film is possible). A final word about how the film was made. It was costed at $2 million dollars, but ran significantly over - on a limited cinema release it made $21 million. The main reason for the overspend was the coronavirus lock-down, which trapped Becky in California and her father in Carolina - meaning their scenes had to be shot in two locations using body doubles and splicing (if we splice anymore). The mast is replicated by building three towers, the top 30', a 50' and 100', on top of a mountain - meaning that the visual back-drop is prospectively correct. Drones were used for the vertical and panoramic shots and were often operated by the actors (it is harder to fly a drone towards something than away from something - hence a lot of the drone shots are in reverse). The three actors are all reasonably competent climbers so they do most of the action themselves with the guidance of some professional free-climbers. Grace Currey is also a trained dancer and physically climbs the 30' mast in close to 'real-time'. Apart from coronavirus the film overshot because extreme changes in weather - much of it was so hot that the actresses could only work in 20 minute stints and on other days storms blew through. one scene is filmed during one of these storms. No one was allowed to climb the mock masts when the wind was in excess of 20 mph - which it often was. CGI is used mainly to remove the safety wires and any free-climbers supporting the actresses and I guess the vertical shots which show the 'whole' tower. It also had to be used to fake lip movement when the studio insisted that the numerous F-words were removed and replaced by 'freking'. I have seen the CGI criticised, but it was good enough for me - after all the tower is not moving around and pretending to Kung-Fu fight! Most importantly, despite their failings I think most viewers will like these two and want them to survive.

This was mostly great. The major part of the film was hugely suspenseful, particularly if you have a thing about heights, and my heart was in my mouth at several key moment. Where I felt the film fell down (no pun intended) was towards the end, and I thought that the 'big twist' was a little unbelievable. I don't want to give any spoilers, but come on, could that have really all happened in the way it did? And the thing with the ring?! And Jeffrey Dean Morgan was... Well, the two girls could teach him a thing or two about acting.

Parts of this movie are knuckle-gnawing to the point of being uncomfortable, so props to the makers on that front. Can’t help thinking that doing away with the relationship storyline and the unnecessary (and I quote) “t*ts for clicks” aspect could have made this a brilliant 12A film rather than a good 15.

Good movie, like the extended version in it also.

Me ha encantado esta increíble película la cual te mantendrá en tensión todo el tiempo,es realmente impresionante,tienes que verla,un saludo!

海外版は日本の機械で再生できない。規格の違いで映像も見れない。知らなかった......

Perfetto

Seen (Fall) at cinema when it came out wanted for my movie collection good movie