‘Fall 2: Deadpoint’ Review: Same Story, Different Way To Tell

I remember when I watched the first Fall movie back in 2022 with zero expectation due to it just looking like a generic, cheap and poorly written film. However, it surprised me so much that became one of the most enjoyable films I’ve seen that year. And now, 4 years later, we have a sequel that not only tells basically the same story, but also manages to please me almost in the same way…

“Grieving her sister Shiloh’s death, Jax Hunter bonds with Shiloh’s bold friend Luce. Together they tackle dangerous Mount Kwan in Thailand. When a rockslide traps them on a narrow plank 4,000 feet up, Jax must face her fears to survive.”

The problem with this film is that it features two protagonists that are exactly the same ones we saw in the first film, which is a traumatized girl and an adventurous one… the way the film connects to the first one feels super forced and unnatural. But I feel like I enjoyed the first film so much that if they make 10 movies like these I will still enjoy because I genuinely just love this urge of tension and all the desperation surrounding it. It’s a fun time at the theater.

The film relies on its predecessor more than I thought it would, even though they are total new and never mentioned characters. It’s a total new story in a total different place but what I felt watching this film was almost the same feeling I had when watching the first.

The tension is still there, the plot twists are still there, all the aspects that made the first movie a fun experience is in this movie as well and I think that’s why I thoroughly enjoyed it! The main actresses are great, I feel like you can feel what they’re feeling through their performance and they manage to just deliver that tension and desperation from being in such a dangerous situation…

Fall 2: Deadpoint is a fun, tense and desperate sequel that feels and looks just like the first film, however, it manages to be just as enjoyable.

Fall 2: Deadpoint is now playing in theaters.