Fall (2000)

User Rating:

2.7/10   

Director:

Daniel Baldwin

Writer:

Kenneth August (writer)

Genre:

Action

Tagline:

Someone is going down.

Plot:

A professional thief turns state's evidence on his Mafia boss and enters into the witness protection program. |

Plot Keywords:

Witness Protection | Independent Film

Cast

Michael Madsen	...	Jeremy Banes
Karl Pruner	...	Keith Taylor
Daniel Baldwin	...	Anthony Carlotti
Chad McQueen	...	Manny Carlotti
Joe Mantegna	...	Agent Jim Danaher
Anna Starnino	...	Momma Carlotti
Lawrence Dane	...	Joseph King
William Colgate	...	Tom Peterman
Tracy Shreve	...	King's Secretary
George Politzer	...	Albert
Amanda Zamprogna	...	Delores
Chris Adams	...	Transit Cop
Leford Lawes	...	Cop #1
Janet Burke	...	Gas Bar Cashier
Pedro Miguel Arce	...	Samoan Body Guard (as Pedro Arce)

Also Known As:

Fall: The Price of Silence (USA)

Runtime:

97 min

Country:

Canada

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour

Certification:

Iceland:16 | Germany:16 | Spain:18 (video premiere)

An embarrassingly amateurish clunker

Baldwin's directorial debut is a great turd of a movie. The plot, such as one exists, concerns two hitmen brothers, played by director/producer Baldwin and McQueen, as they try to intercept Madsen, who has enrolled in the witness protection program. The script is supposed to be comedic, but the unfunny, poorly timed dialogue thuds painfully. With minimal assistance from the film's cast or director, the plot limps haltingly forward, occasionally stopping entirely as Baldwin dwells lovingly on the brothers' excursion into a strip club (predictable gratuitous tit/ass/soft-core lesbian sex shots), their roadside digression with two young women who improbably do not hesitate to leap into Baldwin and McQueen's car (in incredibly poor taste, this scene features the women performing syncopated fellatio on Baldwin and McQueen, like a teeter-totter), and their lengthy and repetitive musings on the merits of breasts versus bottom and the `reason' why women are lesbians. Unsurprisingly, with the exception of Baldwin and McQueen's stereotyped Italian mother, the women in the cast all feature big hair, large breasts and miniskirts (Baldwin displays his particular fondness for waitress uniforms -- one can only imagine the casting couch). Disappointingly, Madsen's early promise of talent appears to have fizzled out entirely with this movie. This movie is not a train wreck. Rather, this 'train' never made it onto the tracks. Miss this one.