Fall 2: Deadpoint (2026)

The mountain is closed because of earthquakes, rockslides and rain, the guide says so out loud, and everybody climbs it anyway. Nobody in this movie has ever turned back from anything. The Spierig brothers know how to make a narrow plank feel endless, and the scenes on the rickety plank walk, with the clip-in clip-out routine and a stretch called the Devil’s Elbow, are legit dizzying. Everything around them is weaker. Harriet Slater plays Jax, grieving her stunt-climber sister Shiloh, and Arsema Thomas plays the friend who talks her into one of Shiloh’s dream climbs in Thailand. They’re both committed, but the dialogue is bland, the twists pile up without making anybody more interesting, and some of the computer effects look cheap next to the real height. It also drags in the middle, when they’re stuck and mostly talking. It made $17.7 million worldwide. A 4.6 because the climbing is tense and the people doing it barely exist. $14.92 says you take the stairs at work tomorrow and grip the railing a little harder than usual.

What works: The plank walk sequences are genuinely dizzying, and the Spierigs know how to stretch a single slip into pure panic.

What doesn’t: The characters are thin, the dialogue is bland and the stacked twists add noise instead of depth.

Who it’s for: People who loved the first Fall and can forgive anything as long as somebody is dangling.