Repetitive and really pretentious, but anyone with a taste for visual splendor won't complain.
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05/29/08
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
Like listening to a little kid tell a story: sometimes intriguingly bizarre and surprisingly clever, but mostly just futile and frustrating.
05/29/08
...deserves three-and-a-half stars for its dazzling opening sequence alone.
05/29/08
Tarsem filmed his epic adventure in well over a dozen countries, generating plenty of Frequent Flyer Miles for himself but offering nothing to audiences hoping for more than just visual extravagance.
05/28/08
A fairy-tale that's fractured in ways that seem perversely calculated to alienate us even as it tries to draw us in...a cinematic pratfall.
05/28/08
If Matthew Barney and Alejandro Jodorowsky were in change of filming a Gay Pride parade, it would be similar to what Fall has to offer visually...As a living, breathing creation, it's dead on arrival.
05/21/08
[A] thoroughly unique experience, one that is wildly cinematic in that it never lets you forget you're watching a movie, and yet one that is so enrapturing that you get lost in it...
05/21/08
the ever-shifting tall-tale narrative keeps The Fall dreamlike, rather than, say, Gatoradesque.
05/17/08
The best movie of the year so far by a wide mile.
05/12/08
It really adds up to a whole lot of nothing.
05/12/08
Top Critic[Despite some narrative problems], the visuals hold us rapt, as does Untaru's amazingly natural performance.
05/11/08
Each and every of Tarsem's visuals scratch onerously at the mind, heart, and cornea.
05/10/08
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.
05/09/08
[Tarsem] Singh's visual sense is stunning, but he's also attuned to the darker corners of children's imaginations.
05/09/08
This is a feast for the eyes and a famine for the brain.
05/09/08
Top CriticFor a film that wants to present itself as extravagantly dazzling, there is something thuddingly familiar and bland in its vision.
05/09/08
Some of the set pieces are ravishing, more often they're ravishingly clunky.
05/09/08
This whacked-out fairy tale for grown-ups is as stunning in its beauty as it is in its lack of logic.
05/09/08
Top CriticShot piecemeal over the course of four years on locations in 18 countries, The Fall is a genuine labor of love -- and a real bore.
05/09/08
The scope of Tarsem's imagination and vision and the delightful pairing of Pace and Untaru creates an eclectic fantasy tale unlike anything we've since The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.
05/09/08
Latest 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:
UK Critics Consensus: How To Lose Friends & Alienate People Does Just That; Whilst Brideshead Revisited Is Resisted
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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