Scott Mann and Jonathan Frank direct Grace Caroline Currey, Virginia Gardner and Jeffrey Dean Morgan in this survival thriller where two dumb daredevils climb a rusted 2,000 feet tall TV tower in the middle of a desert and get stranded at the top.

I reckon I’ll never particularly care about the plight of whiny Gen Z-ers who put themselves in harms way for fire emojis. If you can move past how annoying the leads are then there are adequately good thrills within. A lot of the escalating peril is expertly foreshadowed. The risk builds nicely and my heart was in my mouth a couple of times during the dizzyingly futile escape attempts. Fall is better than most of its weird little subset. Could be 15 minutes shorter, and the last minute twist doesn’t add much, but all-in-all a serviceable enough one-watcher. Verti-go-go!

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Perfect Double Bill: Open Water (2003)

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