Two young women are stuck on top of an old radio tower. The desert. Vulture. And Jeffrey Dean Morgan.
One good thing about survival movies is that we’ve seen almost everything. The hungry shark circling a surfer in The Shallows, the hiker stuck in a crevasse in 127 hours (a true story), a rugby team lost in the Andes after their plane crashed in Alive! (and it’s a true story too)… In short, there’s no shortage of extreme situations.
Fall, a total fiction, features two friends. Still traumatized by the death of her husband, Becky (Grace Caroline Currey) climbs a mountain with his wife’s girlfriend, Hunter (Virginia Gardner). Her father (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) somehow tries to get his daughter out of her shell, but nothing works.
That’s when Hunter came up with the idea of offering to climb an old radio tower, more than 600 m high, everything rusty and – as it should be, otherwise it wouldn’t be funny – in the middle of the desert. Once at the top, they can no longer get down, the ladder of ascent breaks under their weight.
Alongside the inevitable cell phones, wanderers who don’t see them, and torches that go unnoticed, we’re treated to vultures (as hungry as Lucky Luke’s and replacing the all-too-frequently seen sharks and other ferocious beasts) and dizzying gunfire.
As is well known, the dialogues will not win an Oscar, nor will the acting of the actresses. As for tension… So effective, case? Yes, it makes you dizzy…