It looks spectacular, but a book of The Fall photographs would be just as compelling as the movie.
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05/30/08
The Fall (2008)
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Reviews Counted:97
Fresh:58
Rotten:39
Average Rating:6.2/10
Consensus: More visually elaborate than the fragmented story can sometimes support, The Fall walks the line between labor of love and filmmaker self-indulgence.
Theatrical Release:May 9, 2008 Limited
Box Office: $2,099,067
Synopsis: Award-winning music video, commercial and film director Tarsem Singh (The Cell) creates a moving and seamless blending of mundane life in a 1915 Los Angeles hospital with a visually sumptuous... [More]
Reviews for The Fall
Pace and Untaru generate an unforced chemistry that makes them pleasant company for a couple of hours, but they almost work against the movie's need to establish narrative tension. They appear to be having such a good time that Roy's self-destructive impu
05/30/08
An achingly beautiful movie and a triumph of location scouting, with more cosmopolitan spectacle than the past three Indiana Jones and James Bond movies combined.
05/30/08
Sometimes, looking good isn't enough.
05/30/08
Top CriticIt doesn't make a bit of sense. And after a while, even pretty images become boring when there's nobody in them we care about.
05/30/08
That's the trouble with candy, the eye kind or the tooth-decaying variety. It's only after you've made a glutton of yourself that you realize you haven't devoured anything particularly filling.
05/30/08
There's no doubt that Tarsem's a visionary director. Now he needs to envision a worthwhile script for himself.
05/30/08
The Fall is a technically dazzling film that instantly gratifies the eye, but falls short of appeasing the head or the heart with its visual excesses.
05/30/08
Singh's aesthetic is like a pungent flavor or a fragrance that lingers in the film's Escher-like folds, overwhelming logical narrative and emotional clarity.
05/30/08
This is a stunning coffee-table book, but it's not really a movie.
05/30/08
A bewitching movie, rich in ideas and humanity, and it reminds us that fiction is real to the one who imagines it. Adults might read with detachment, but kids know the truth: It matters who lives and who dies in a story. It matters for them, and for us.
05/30/08
The Fall may indeed stumble at times, and it's certainly hard to categorize. But it's also exhilarating in reach and vision while admirable in execution. If only more films aspired to such wonder.
05/30/08
Gorgeous, inert and dull.
05/30/08
Tarsem's The Fall is a mad folly, an extravagant visual orgy, a free-fall from reality into uncharted realms. Surely it is one of the wildest indulgences a director has ever granted himself.
05/30/08
Top CriticWith unbelievable and unsympathetic characters, all that's left in The Fall is the visuals.
05/30/08
There's a decent little movie lurking somewhere deep inside this visual panoply that positively chokes on its own symbolism.
05/30/08
Dazzling and delirious, The Fall is a celebration of cinema, of old-fashioned storytelling and globe-hopping spectacle.
05/30/08
If Singh had only lavished a sliver of his attention to the simple matter of creating an engaging tale to service these visions, he might have created the truly amazing work that hhe seems capable of delivering instead of the gorgeous mess he has given us
05/29/08
A rather messy mix of fantasy, goofy humor and visually arresting, sometimes distracting costume and set designs.
05/29/08
Some filmmakers can imagine everything and select nothing, and while it's clear as a bell Tarsem has more talent than almost any 10 directors put together, in The Fall he's basically showing off with every new wondrous image.
05/29/08
Top CriticLatest News for The Fall
December 08, 2008:
Roger Ebert Ranks 2008's 20 Best Films 
December isn't even halfway over yet, and many of us have already had our fill of year-end lists -- but Roger Ebert's list of the 20 best films of 2008 is one worth making an... More...
October 06, 2008:
Exclusive: The Fall - Tarsem's Visual Companion - Part 2
Its otherworldly story split critics down the middle, but none can argue with the power of its imagery. Continuing our exclusive look at the stunning visuals of Tarsem's The... More...
October 03, 2008:
Exclusive: The Fall - Tarsem's Visual Companion - Part 1
Its otherworldly story split critics down the middle, but none can argue with the power of its imagery. Opening in the UK this week, Tarsem's The Fall is one of the year's most... More...
October 03, 2008:
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In the UK cinemas this week we have two literary adaptations with Simon Pegg as an irksome hack in How To Lose Friends & Alienate People, and Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited... More...
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