Fall 2: Deadpoint hung itself on the wall. Lionsgate opened the survival sequel in United States theatres on Wednesday, 2 September 2026. Harriet Slater is Jax Hunter. Arsema Thomas is Luce. Thailand's Mount Kwan is the plank. The Spierig Brothers directed. Scott Mann and Jonathan Frank wrote. About ninety-seven minutes on the trade clock — call it an hour and a half plus a little change.

Mashable's trailer piece walked the vacation joke and the deadly don'ts: Slater and Thomas as climbers on Mount Kwan, vertigo, exposure, maybe hallucinations, theatres 2 September. Variety's review, filed around the Los Angeles screening of 1 September, called it a mostly successful sequel that replicates the first film's vertiginous tension without being a carbon copy. The Guardian was cooler. Rotten Tomatoes has been sitting in mixed weather around the low fifties on early tallies. I'm not inventing a rave the board has not earned. Survival craft where it is true. Reported cast and plot where reviews are thin.

Plot, as the studio and the reviews agree without needing a spoiler dump: Jax is grieving her sister Shiloh, who died in 2022's Fall. Luce, Shiloh's fearless friend, proposes they honour the next stunt Shiloh wanted — the Devil's Elbow plank walk on Mount Kwan. A guide named John, Tom Brittney, takes them out in bad weather. A rockslide — earthquake and avalanche in Variety's telling — strands them thousands of feet up. Numbers flex by outlet: Bloody Disgusting's trailer write-up said about 3,000 feet; Variety's review said about 4,000 feet in the air after the path goes. Either way, the metric is roughly 900 to 1,200 metres of nothing under the plank. They have to reverse the route. Fear and friction do the rest.

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Grace Caroline Currey briefly returns as Becky from the first film. Virginia Gardner appears in the sister-shadow as Shiloh. Lionsgate and Grindstone distribute. Tea Shop Productions, Capstone Pictures, and Flawless are on the production line the trades list. PG-13 for strong language, bloody images, some violent content, drug material on the Rotten Tomatoes info panel. Runtime 1 hour 37 minutes on that same panel, 97 minutes in the trade listings — close enough that I'll say about ninety-seven minutes and move on.

Mashable's trailer copy is breezy and clear: new cast, same high-place trap, Mount Kwan, September 2 open. A related Mashable interview note on the same hub joked about ropes-course promo and spray tan in Thailand. That is preview texture, not a verdict. Bloody Disgusting's John Squires carried the official trailer earlier: overwhelmed by Hunter's death, Jax connects with Luce, rockslide, fragile plank, deepest fears. Dread Central, on opening day, posted a clip of the peg walk going wrong and fresh stills of Slater and Thomas on the wall. Those are the public images. This review is not a stills gallery. It is a note that the sequel actually opened.

Variety's Owen verdict shape — if you read the full piece — is the fairest craft map available in the first days. Peter and Michael Spierig (Predestination, Jigsaw) match sets to Thailand locations well enough. POV climbing shots put you in the shoes without overplaying the hand. Stunts feel harrowingly physical even when the script piles on loose screws. Slater and Thomas are likable; Thomas is the breakthrough. Brittney's guide has authority even when motives blur. The complaint side: friendship revelations and third-act confrontations that duplicate the first film's checklist energy and puncture tension at the wrong altitude. Positive survival craft where true means the height work and the want-to-see-them-live pull. It does not mean pretending the script invented a new emotional mountain.

The Guardian's 2 September review called the sequel a palm-sweating formula with only moderately jolting results — same grief-engine, new country, rockslide instead of tower. That cooler weather sits beside Variety's mostly-successful stamp and the mixed Tomatometer. Box Office Mojo's early daily table put Wednesday 2 September at about US$310,927 across roughly 1,502 theatres, a soft open that is a business fact, not an aesthetic verdict. Soft opens get printed when they are printed. They do not get confused with the craft of a plank.

What Fall got right in 2022 was making height feel expensive — every camera angle a reminder of how far the fall is. Deadpoint's job was to move that expense to a mountainside walk and keep your stomach honest. On that narrow brief, the supportive reviews say the Spierigs mostly succeed, especially on a big screen. On the wider brief — new emotional truth, surprises that do not feel xeroxed — the same reviews hesitate. Pixie's bias is toward the survival object: two climbers, one wall, weather that does not care, a runtime that does not dawdle past two hours. That object is real. The franchise machinery around a third film, which Variety notes Mann and Frank are already set to tackle, is a different sentence.

Mount Kwan is the named peak in the marketing. Variety notes a real Devil's Elbow exists in Thailand and that this movie's Elbow is not simply a documentary of that trail. Fine. Cinema builds a wall you can photograph. The pegs, the cables, the sense that tetanus is waiting on every loose fitting — Variety's wry line — are the tactile jokes that make the set feel climbed. Metric again: four thousand feet is about 1,220 metres; three thousand feet is about 910 metres. The trailers sell thousands of feet above the ground. Your inner ear does the conversion when the camera looks down.

I'm staying inside verified lanes. Cast: Slater, Thomas, Brittney, Currey. Directors: Spierig Brothers. Writers: Mann and Frank. Distributor: Lionsgate. Open: 2 September 2026 US. Cite Mashable for the trailer and preview frame. Cite Variety for the fullest early craft read. Cite The Guardian for the cooler take. Cite Rotten Tomatoes info panels for runtime, rating, and synopsis language. Cite Dread Central for the opening-day clip of the plank walk. No invented five-star house rave. No pretend that mixed boards are fresh. Positive where the height craft and the leads earn it.

Sunday 6 September puts the picture four days into theatres. Enough time to say the sequel arrived on its date, hung its bodies on a Thai wall, and split the reviewers between vertigo satisfaction and formula fatigue. If you loved Fall for the sweat of looking down, Deadpoint still knows how to point a camera at empty air. If you needed a new emotional grammar, read Variety's reservations before you buy the ticket. Either way, the plank is open. Fall two hung on the wall.

Jax and Luce. Mount Kwan. Rockslide. Thousands of feet — hundreds of metres — of exposure. Spierigs. Mann and Frank. Lionsgate. Mashable trailer. Variety mostly successful. Guardian cooler. About ninety-seven minutes. Soft Wednesday gross on the early table. Survival craft on the wall. The picture is the news, and the wall is still up.