Journey from the Fall
ImaginAsian Entertainment | Release Date: March 23, 2007 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
70
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 10 Critic Reviews
Positive:
8
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0
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90
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
An example of sophisticated, impassioned filmmaking involving mainly people who lived through the harrowing experiences so unsparingly depicted, Journey From the Fall powerfully illustrates the refugee/immigrant experience. Read full review
88
Boston GlobeJanice Page
Even when its wires are showing, the movie's soul is always evident. Read full review
80
Film ThreatMark Bell
Journey from the Fall re-educates as well as entertains, but never takes the easy way out, nor does it preach. In the end, it's a snippet of one family forever altered, and despite all the political undertones, it's the human level on which the film succeeds most of all. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterMichael Rechtshaffen
A movingly rendered, stirringly photographed first feature by Ham Tran. Read full review
80
VarietyRussell Edwards
A post-Vietnam War boat people saga is launched to compelling effect in Journey From the Fall, a sleek U.S. production. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleG. Allen Johnson
If there is a beef to be had, it is that Tran seems to have tried so hard to make a movie of importance that his characters often resemble archetypes as opposed to people; the game cast appears straitjacketed at times. Still, it's a story that needed to be told. Read full review
70
The New York TimesMatt Zoller Seitz
The film depicts one family's endurance in sturdy, old-movie style, with sweeping camerawork, a monumental and occasionally intrusive orchestral score, gorgeous yet forbidding natural vistas and enough shocking tragedies, brazen escapes and crowd-pleasing acts of defiance to fuel several action-adventure pictures. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleMarjorie Baumgarten
A popular Vietnamese fable that bookends this first-time filmmaker's movie may have the effect of distancing more Americans than it draws in, but once the film gets going there is no turning your back on it. Read full review
50
Village VoiceScott Foundas
Tran's reliance on declamatory political dialogue and movie-of-the-week inspirationalism feels decidedly old-fashioned and, finally, even phony. Read full review
42
Seattle Post-IntelligencerBill White
The film may be like looking through a stranger's scrapbook. With sketchy and didactic scenes lacking narrative cohesion, it is a collection of often strong images that fail to come to life. Read full review
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