Review - The Fall

I was rooting for this picture most of the way through. It was an interesting blend of a bracket about a man in a hospital who tells stories to an injured child and the stories themselves. The visuals were rich and colorful, artistic enough to keep things interesting even when the plot got slow. But then with around half an hour to go it was like the film-makers decided we were all having too much fun and started pouring ice-cold water on our heads for the rest of the running time. The storyteller begins making his story tragic to the point where it’s an act of unwarranted cruelty against the girl he’s telling it to. If it had ended before it took that particular twist, it would have been a much, much better movie. See if desperate