Fall (2022)

Two best friends (Grace Caroline Currey, Virginia Gardner) who are risk takers and mountain climbers climb 2,000 feet to the top of a remote, abandoned radio tower. But they find themselves stranded with no way down when the old and rusty ladder breaks away and crashes. Will they be able to survive the elements? Co-written and directed by Scott Mann (HEIST), there are equal parts good and bad in the film. The good: the climbing sequences are awesome and Mann keeps the tension and suspense at peak level. It's a real nail biter. The bad: every time a character opens her/his mouth. I can't remember the last time I heard such amateurish writing. This would make a terrific silent movie. You just want everybody to shut up! Also, the the script cheats, it gets unnecessarily gross toward the end and the film skips what should have been a crucial scene. As for the acting, I'm not familiar with Currey and Gardner so I have no idea whether they can act or not. I'm not going to judge them here because even Meryl Streep couldn't make the dumb dialog work. So if you can put up with the cringe inducing dialog and focus on the survival thriller elements, you might enjoy it. With Jeffrey Dean Morgan.