YMMV / Fall

• Accidental Aesop: Don't assume that your cellphone will always be able to help you. If ever you're going to do something dangerous, let some close friends and/or loved ones know what it is, where you will be going and for how long, so that they can come searching if you don't make it back in time and your phone loses contact.
• It Was His Sled: The one thing everyone talks about when mentioning Fall is that Hunter falls to her death and Becky hallucinates her presence afterwards.
• Paranoia Fuel: Part of what makes the film so stressful (besides the obvious thought of being trapped alone hundreds of meters above the Earth), is that the tower is very old and has few guywires supporting it. While most radio towers in Real Life have multiple levels of guywires and are regularly maintained, the tower in the film is very old (it's set to be demolished) and has only three guywires supporting it at about the halfway point, while most of the structure is freestanding. Obviously this is just an Acceptable Break from Reality over which one must suspend disbelief, but given how easily such structures can collapse without enough guywire support in Real Life, the film can still have viewers in constant, nauseating paranoia that the tower could buckle and fall out from under our two leads at any given moment.
• They Copied It, So It Sucks!: Several reviews, even when positive in general, found unnecessary that the film aped Gravity's plot twist.
• Visual Effects of Awesome: With the main exception of high-angle shots looking straight down the tower, there is relatively little use of Green Screen in this film. The platform was built atop a several-hundred-meter cliff overlooking the California desert, meaning that the majority of the vast sweeping shots are very real, with just a bit of VFX touchups. The effect is very unsettling, especially for those with a fear of heights. Additionally, the two lead actresses did most of their own stunt work, and heavy winds were a near-constant presence during filming, which makes the terror in their performances all the more authentic.
• The Woobie: Becky, Oh dear God, Becky. The films begins with her husband dying which sends her into an alcoholic depression and strains her relationship with her father. Then her friend talks her into climbing an old radio tower in the hopes that it will snap her out of her depression, only to result in a Trauma Conga Line wherein she learns that her husband cheated on her; all eventually culminating in her best friend's death. Sure, she survives in the end, but she'll probably need therapy for the rest of her life.

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