The Fall

3.80
    The Fall
    2006

    Synopsis

    In a hospital on the outskirts of 1920s Los Angeles, an injured stuntman begins to tell a fellow patient, a little girl with a broken arm, a fantastic story about 5 mythical heroes. Thanks to his fractured state of mind and her vivid imagination, the line between fiction and reality starts to blur as the tale advances.

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    Cast

    • Lee PaceRoy Walker / Black Bandit
    • Catinca UntaruAlexandria
    • Jeetu VermaIndian / Orange Picker
    • Marcus WesleyOtta Benga / Ice Delivery Man
    • Leo BillDarwin / Orderly
    • Julian BleachMystic / Orange Picker
    • Justine WaddellNurse Evelyn / Sister Evelyn
    • Kim UylenbroekDoctor / Alexander The Great
    • Aiden LithgowAlexander's Messenger
    • Emil HostinaAlexandria's Father / Blue Bandit

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    • 91

      The A.V. Club

      It's the most glorious, wonderful mess put onscreen since Terry Gilliam's "Brazil."
    • 88

      Premiere

      The Fall is a movie whose every frame pulsates with the desire to be a transportive, transcendent work of cinema. And each one of said frames is full of visual bedazzlement and wonder. So full that one is loathe to sum up with the phrase "Close, but no cigar." But there is something, finally, kind of pushy about the film's desire to be a masterpiece.
    • 75

      TV Guide Magazine

      Although the film revolves around a child, it's not a children's movie: A cruel and bitter undertone runs through the fanciful adventures, and Walker's depression is no mere plot contrivance to be cured by Alexandria's childish enthusiasm.
    • 75

      USA Today

      The Fall is aptly named not only because it pertains to a tragic descent but because viewers will feel as if they have plunged headlong into an alternate universe with this dazzling adult fairy tale.
    • 60

      Village Voice

      If the human details are often problematic, the IMAX-grade bombast, ceremonial camera, and Jodorowsky-esque eclecticism still combine for a singular spectacle.
    • 50

      The Hollywood Reporter

      Tarsem and his screenwriting collaborators aren't able to come up with enough interesting justifications for their sudden shifts, and soon the shape-shifting yarn just feels like lazy storytelling.
    • 50

      Variety

      This convoluted, arbitrary, overlong whimsy will strike most grown-ups as childish, and is far too violent and pretentious for kids.
    • 50

      New York Post

      It's basically a Middle Eastern version of "The Princess Bride" with an assisted-suicide subplot.

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