Fall 2: Deadpoint
Thriller English
On a perilous climb across Thailand's Mount Kwan, two climbers become trapped thousands of feet above the ground, where vertigo-inducing heights, sheer exposure, and impossible odds turn every moment into a fight for survival.
| Cast: | Harriet Slater, Arsema Thomas, Tom Brittney, Virginia Gardner, Sahajak Boonthanakit, Korakod Yensuk, Jordan Coleman, Maryna Bennett, Noen Perez, Nattapon Sukphiam, Charlie Ruedpokanon |
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| Director: | Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig |
| Writer: | Scott Mann, Jonathan Frank |
| Editor: | Tommy Aagaard, Scott Gray |
| Camera: | Andrew Strahorn |
All Guild Reviews of "Fall 2: Deadpoint"
This Survival Thriller Scales the Heights, Then Tumbles
Fall 2 Deadpoint does its job of inducing altitude terrors pretty efficiently. The writers of Fall are also associated with its sequel, and they do take their job seriously.
When a regular-Joe film is titled just Fall, you can be pretty sure it will be about a rise. When it is followed by a Fall 2, you can swear by it. The first Fall released to decent success in 2022, and achieved some bigger highs via social media reels. In that, two best friends climbed up a desolate TV tower to bury their grief, and encounter heartbreak and vultures. Fall 2 substitutes the tower for a fictional Mount Kwan in Thailand, but can’t resist the grief, betrayal or vultures still, with an over-the-hilltop ending that suggests our survivor is headed for Fall 3.
Survival Thriller by Spierig Brothers Falls Short of Original
Sequel to 2022 original, Fall 2 is too grim for its own good. The film appears to believe that it is a meditation on grief and an inspiring fable about emotional emancipation, without actually tackling either idea with any depth.
Released in 2022, Fall stood out as an uncommonly well-made survival thriller — it had a killer premise, excellent performances and surprising emotional depth. The genre has only become more popular in the years since. This year alone, we’ve seen the Netflix films Apex and The Last House and the Prime Video title The Devil’s Mouth. None of them were any good, although Apex featured a memorably unhinged performance by Taron Egerton. This week’s Fall 2: Deadpoint most definitely comes up short of its predecessor, but more disappointingly, it can’t quite match the camp qualities of this year’s three other survival thrillers either.
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