FALL 2: DEADPOINT (2026)

New in theaters from Lionsgate, Capstone Pictures, and Fearless!
Directed by Michael Spierig, Peter Spierig aka the Spierig Brothers.
Written by Jonathan Frank, Scott Mann.
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trailer here! !

Jax (Harriet Slater) is the timider sister of Shiloh Hunter who met a gravitational fate in the first FALL movie. Always fearful and overly careful, Jax always resented her sister and the last time she saw Shiloh she said some pretty horrible things to her. When a friend from Shiloh’s past Luce (Arsema Thomas) arrives and finds Shiloh’s bucket list journal, Luce convinces Jax to go on a trip to Thailand, the site of a death-defying plank-walk around the peak of a huge mountain. Though she is reluctant at first, Jax wants to prove that she is as stupid as her sister is and decides to go on the climb. But when an avalanche tears down parts of the plank, Jax, Luce, and their guide John (Tom Brittney) find themselves trapped four thousand feet above the ground with no way down.

The original FALL was an effective toe-curler that put two ballsy but idiotic women in a horrifying situation thousands of feet in the air. It was a decent enough hit on streaming to warrant a theatrical sequel and even though I think the two leads were dolts for doing the climb, it was a fun ride that made my stomach drop over and over. Plus, the entire movie was boobalicious as it featured a down-shot of Shiloh’s cleavage for the bulk of the movie and that was not unfun to sit through, if ya know-what-i’m-sayin.

Not wanting to change too much, except this time sadly leaving the push up bra at home, FALL 2: DEADPOINT throws a pair of gals and a guide into another situation you couldn’t pay me to be in; at a great height and traps them there. I mean, you could offer world peace and the cure for baldness at the end of this altitudinal adventure and there’s no fucking way I’d do it. Well, maybe for the cure for baldness. But I digress.

The Spierig Brothers, who were responsible for the excellent PREDESTINATION
and DAYBREAKERS and the ok UNDEAD, WINCHESTER and JIGSAW, return with
this sequel to the streaming hit FALL from waaay back to 2022. Though original director
Scott Mann doesn’t return, the Spierig Brothers do a decent job in his stead, offering up a digestible story, semi-likable characters, and a few plot twists that are obvious from the get-go.

This isn’t the fault of the directors though. The FALL series has become formulaic in just two movies as the second film, almost beat for beat, follows the same plot only with different characters and location. Even down to the same kind of twists arriving at the same time in the film. This is a result of simply sopying and pasting the script rather than the direction and if they follow through with the third film that is hinted at in the end, one hopes they’ll try something different next time.

But there are two big problems with FALL 2. First, the two leads are infinitely less interesting than the pair in the first one. Jax honors her sister by, what, making the same mistakes she did? It makes no sense. The actress is ok playing Jax but there’s just not much to her other than her trying to live up to her sister’s accomplishments, which isn’t a very likable motivation. The other lead, Arsema Thomas as Luce, is equally ridiculous, if not more so. Once her motivation comes to light, followed immediately by a revelation about her health, I couldn’t help but laugh out loud. It’s not that her health issues are funny. But this condition is revealed in the exact, same conversation where she is caught in a lie, so it just seems like the character is trying to get out of trouble by revealing her health issues. It undercuts the entire twist and is an awfully executed scene that’ll bring laughs more than sentiment. Tom Brittney tries to bring an ounce of character to his role of John and is a talented actor, but he can’t elevate his costars. br>
But the real issue with FALL 2 is that it just isn’t as anxiety-inducing as the first one. The bulk of FALL 2 are closeups of the two or three leads whereas I feel the original captured the reason we are all watching this film so well, namely the anxiety-inducing heights of this whole adventure. The first film constantly reminded us how high up the two gals were with long shots, and forced perspectives from above and below. We were constantly reminded that those gals are stuck way, way, way the mother-fuck up there. In FALL2, we got a few shots like that. I especially liked the 360 degree spin the camera does in one particular scene, but those moments are few and far between. Every now and then, we are reminded how high up we are, but I had a greater number of toe-curling, heart-stopping, stomach-flipping moments of high peril with FALL 1 and FALL 2 just didn’t have as many that worked for me.

The ending is rather ridiculous and opens a ton of enormous plot holes that I won’t reveal here but the finale makes you wonder how who survived—actually survived. They smartly just glaze over these things quickly, hoping no one caught any of them. Still, for a big ending, I guess this one works but again, it pales in comparison to the first one.

I didn’t come out of FALL 2 pissed, but simply a little peeved that so little was done to differentiate it from the better original picture. FALL 2: DEADPOINT isn’t awful, but it really doesn’t compare to the original in any way, shape or form, and even that film wasn’t perfect.