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‘Fall 2: Deadpoint’ ending, explained<\/h1>\n
The first “Fall” movie had a mind-blowing twist. What does the sequel have in store?<\/div>\n
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\n Kristy Puchko is the Entertainment Editor at Mashable. Based in New York City, she’s an established film critic and entertainment reporter who has traveled the world on assignment, covered a variety of film festivals, co-hosted movie-focused podcasts, and interviewed a wide array of performers and filmmakers.\n <\/div>\n

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Harriet Slater as Jax Hunter in “Fall 2: Deadpoint.”<\/span>Credit: Lionsgate<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Fall 2: Deadpoint<\/em><\/a>is an unusual sequel in that the heroes of the previous film<\/a> aren’t at the center. As thoroughly detailed in our Fall <\/u><\/em>ending explainer<\/u><\/a>, only one of the two besties who climbed a 2,000-foot pole made it back to terra firma alive. And she only makes a brief appearance in the second film. However, Fall 2: Deadpoint <\/em>does follow closely to the structure of the first film\u2026 until it doesn’t.\u00a0<\/p>\n

If you’re wondering about that ending, we’ve got you covered.\u00a0<\/p>\n

What is Fall 2: Deadpoint <\/em>about?\u00a0<\/h2>\n

The sequel, written by Fall <\/em>screenwriters Scott Mann and Jonathan Frank, focuses on Jax (Harriet Slater), the younger sister of the late Shiloh Hunter (Virginia Gardner).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Jax is spiraling not only from grief but also from the surreal experience of seeing Shiloh (who was most often called Hunter in the first film) become posthumously famous as #fallgirl. But a college friend of her sister’s, Luce (Arsema Thomas), has a radical plan for coping with such big emotions: Do a big, risky climb in Shiloh\/Hunter’s name.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Why is it called Fall 2: Deadpoint<\/em>?<\/h2>\n
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Harriet Slater and Arsema Thomas co-star in “Fall 2: Deadpoint.” Credit: Lionsgate<\/span>Credit: Lionsgate<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Well, aside from the macabre tone the sequel’s subtitle sets up, “deadpoint” is a climbing term. Paradigm Climbing describes a deadpoint <\/a>as “the moment a climber’s vertical or lateral velocity reaches zero, before reversing direction.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Where does Fall 2: Deadpoint <\/em>follow Fall<\/em>?\u00a0<\/h2>\n
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Harriet Slater plays Jax in “Fall 2: Deadpoint.” <\/span>Credit: Lionsgate<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Both films center on two young women who take on a perilously high climb in an attempt to overcome a past trauma. In Fall, <\/em>Hunter urges Becky (Grace Caroline Currey) to climb the radio tower to get over the death of her husband (Mason Gooding), who died on her last cliffside climb. In Fall 2: Deadpoint, <\/em>Jax and Luce climb a plank walk, 4,000 feet above sea level (so, twice as high as Hunter and Becky went). This trek is on the face of Thailand’s Mount Kwan, and is said to end before a statue of a death dragon that will “eat your fears.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Luce gets the idea for this particular adventure from Hunter’s “fuck-it list,” a scrapbook where she plotted out the stunts and climbs she’d perform for her online followers. This leads her and Jax to a bar in Thailand. There, the codename “Icarus on the rocks” (not a good <\/em>omen) connects them with a non-native guide named Jon (Tom Brittney), who agrees to take them on the illegal climb for a steep fee that Luce says she’ll cover. On top of the dangers of falling, this trek is more dangerous still because of reported rock slides. And then there’s the added dangers around drug smugglers and the authorities determined to crack down on them and their mules.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Much of that is added sequel flare. But Fall 2 <\/em>hits some very familiar story points. Like Becky and Hunter before them, Jax and Luce see a vulture feeding on carrion in an ominous sign before their climb. They are warned they might suffer from “mountain bends,” a version of altitude sickness that Jon says could cause “headaches, hallucinations, nausea, and worse.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Once trapped on the mountain, they too will be trapped by a crumbling man-made artifice. In this case, a rock slide shatters the planks, leaving Luce and Jax stranded 4,0000 feet up. As for Jon, he goes missing during their scramble to dodge the falling rocks. <\/p>\n

Then, like Becky and Hunter, the women will find their backpack of necessary provisions just out of reach. The steps to recover it might well give audiences flashbacks to Hunter’s attempt to reclaim a backpack in Fall<\/em>. And then there’s actual flashbacks, giving backstory to Jax and Shiloh’s dysfunctional sister bond. <\/p>\n

Like her sister did in Fall<\/em>, Jax will use a video recording device to try to find someone on the ground that can help rescue them. And once more, that won’t be what does save them. <\/p>\n

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But, there will be a big twist, where the person who proposed<\/em> the trip admits to a brutal betrayal of their companion. <\/p>\n

What’s the twist in Fall 2: Deadpoint?\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\n
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Arsema Thomas takes a hard fall in “Fall 2: Deadpoint.”<\/span>Credit: Lionsgate<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

While Jax is Hunter’s sister, it’s Luce that follows in her footsteps. She has struggles that recall the events that led to Hunter’s fatal fall, including an injury to her upper limbs while trying to recover the backpack. From there, audiences might well anticipate that Jax is having an experience like Becky’s, having witnessed her friend’s death and hallucinating the fallen friend surviving to get her to the end of the path. But Fall 2: Deadpoint<\/em>‘s big twist is not<\/u> that!\u00a0<\/p>\n

The personal twist comes when Jax watches old footage from Hunter’s video recorder of a group hang with Luce. That’s when she (and we) learns the Luce she knows isn’t the real Luce. Her name is Billie, and she’d never met Hunter. But after being diagnosed with terminal cancer, she found inspiration in Hunter’s videos, which had a carpe diem vivacity.\u00a0She’s a fan. <\/p>\n

When Billie saw Jax was selling Hunter’s recovered vehicle, she wanted to buy it. But Jax didn’t want to sell to a fan, so Jax did some light social media stalking and learned Hunter had a Black friend named Luce. She lied about her identity to buy the car, but then felt genuinely connected to Jax. So, she proposed the trip.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Like Hunter, Billie was deceitful to her climbing partner. In the first film, Hunter’s big reveal was she’d been sleeping with Becky’s husband before his death. But Luce is not a hallucination. However, she will fall to her death all the same.\u00a0<\/p>\n

How does Fall 2: Deadpoint <\/em>end?\u00a0<\/h2>\n
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Tom Brittney plays Jon in “Fall 2: Deadpoint.”<\/span>Credit: Lionsgate<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

With Jon’s talk about the necessity for the small oxygen tanks to prevent mountain bends, Mann and Frank set up the potential to retread the hallucination twist. However, ultimately, their script pivots to a more Hollywood action ending. <\/p>\n

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