Fall, They Should Have Just FALLEN
I have been hearing from someone (TRAVIS), that they are tired of hearing about horror reviews. So, I am switching it up and talking about the movie, Fall. This is another movie I saw on my TikTok for you page. In the comments, they always talked about how there was a wild plot twist. So I wanted to see for myself. I watched this movie in my boyfriend’s cold-ass room and enjoyed making fun of this film. Let’s get into it.
Fall literally came out last month and is a thriller movie. The only thing I got hyped for was seeing Negan from The Walking Dead in this film. He is a fine man, I can’t lie. So the film is about how these people like climbing dangerous things like mountains and different structures to “feel alive”. Personally, I like to feel alive on the ground instead of climbing a mountain barehanded. The main protagonist, Becky watches her boyfriend die off the cliff and she spirals into a depression for a year after his death. The thing that made me mad was that she had her boyfriend’s ashes still in the box that it was shipped to her sitting on her countertop. She had a dead person sitting in her house with no special casing or pot. Respect the Dead BECKY. Hunter, her bestie who was on the trip with Becky where her boyfriend died decides to help Becky with her depression by making her climb a rusty radio tower in the middle of the desert with her. Personally, if my boyfriend died doing an activity we did together like mountain climbing, I would not want to do it again.
Becky faces her fear and they both head out to climb the radio tower and they succeed. This is where the movie starts to pick up with the suspense. The whole way up the radio tower it was nerve wracking. The radio tower is rustier than Tow Mater in Cars.
The tower is falling apart and bolts are basically falling off as they went up. They have their moment of victory and take photos and videos. Then they decide to go down. They thought they were going to climb it and go down in one day. They are sadly mistaken because the ladder breaks off and they have no way down. They are stuck up there with no food or cell service to call for help. This photo is how ridiculously small the platform was on the radio tower. Personally, if I was in this situation, I would have accepted defeat and jumped off or died slowly on that platform.
I made fun of this film because of how cringe the girls were. Hunter was annoying because she was playing as some cringe YouTuber called Dangerous D and did all this for some clout. Look where that got her, stuck on a radio tower in the middle of a desert. So the plot twist of this film was that the audience was made to believe that Becky and Hunter were still on this radio tower for days, trying to survive and get help. But since Becky is so traumatized from her boyfriend dying in a similar situation; plus they are hungry and dehydrated this whole time so Becky is hallucinating. The plot twist was that Hunter went down to grab the bookbag off of a satellite dish on the tower. It was dangerous but she got it. She fell and injured her hands on the way down the rope but got back to the platform. OR SO WE THINK! This is the scene that got the gears going in my head for this plot twist. Hunter brought a drone for this trip and they needed to charge it so Becky climbed up the tower to charge it in the light on top of the tower. Becky has the backpack on her back. Hunter is on the platform watching her and cheering her on to get the job done. The backpack drops from Becky’s back and Hunter doesn’t even try to catch the bag. She watched the bag drop that had little supplies for them to survive off of. My first thought watching this was “why the fuck did she not catch the bag?”. I was like oh maybe it was cuz her hands still hurt. But no Hunter deliberative watched that bag drop off the tower with no motion to even try to grab it. Come to find out she didn’t catch the bag because Hunter was dead the whole time. Becky had been hallucinating that Hunter was alive but no, she was dead on that satellite dish. The vultures were eating her, it was sad but I did not like her character honestly because she was annoying. Becky snaps out of her hallucinations and finally gets a text to her dad and the way she did it was so gruesome. She goes to Hunter’s dead body on the satellite dish, puts her phone in a shoe, puts the shoe in Hunter’s body, and pushes Hunter off the satellite so the message can send on the way down and not get the phone damaged as well. The level of disrespect to the dead is FOUL.
But Becky ends up getting saved by the cops. Her Dad, which is Negan from the Walking Dead, picks her up and she is alright. That’s the end. I honestly give it a 6.5 out of 10 because the plot twist was decent. I honestly did not care for the secret that was aired out between Becky and Hunter. While Becky was married to her boyfriend, Hunter got into an affair with Becky’s boyfriend for four months. If I was Becky and found that out on the radio tower, I would have pushed Hunter off. I’M SORRY. But they were grasping for straws with the drama but great feelings of suspense and anxiety.
