Man, how I regret wasting my precious time on this film. Fall Time is so awful that I kind of feel ashamed to have it in my DVD collection. Not for long though… Don't be fooled by the Sundance nomination (how this piece of junk achieved it is a mystery) and the promising cast: Fall Time is an annoyingly bad film. Its plot is contrived, the developments of the story border on the ridiculous and to top it off the acting is poor. Even those actors who proved elsewhere that they can do much better (Mickey Rourke, Sheryl Lee) fail to impress.When you feel that it is a movie that you are watching and not a story that you could immerse yourself in, when you see sweating actors instead of characters or cheap sets instead of real locations you know that the illusion you expect to get from a film will not arrive this time. Try as I might I would be hard pressed to find a single redeeming feature in this film. I only gave it 2 stars to reserve 1 for the absolute black holes of cinema. Avoid it like the plague!

***SPOILERS*** ***SPOILERS***Someone wrote on his comment before that the movie is homo-erotic. It totally is, and I absolutely loved it. We need more movies like this. There's a huge demand for this sort of thing. Females enjoy a bit of male action just as much as guys like lesbians. Too bad they only make a film like this once in a decade. Damn. Mickey Rourke is brilliant and unbelievably sexy, and who could resist those blue eyes of Stephen's? ;) I was blown away by the great acting of these gentlemen but the plot wasn't very credible, although it didn't matter much. But why did Florence tell Leon that the third man was dead and left at the bank in the end when he could have walked in the door any second? And why did Florence have to kill Leon? And what the hell was Patty up to in the end? Anyway, good flick. Highly recommendable.

I didn't know what to think at first because there were so many nutty things going on in this juicy little film. Yea, now that I read some of the other reviews, the homoerotic thing fits. I wondered if I was imagining things, or what. All the touching, close contact,. . . is he going to kiss him?! Mickey Rourke was amazing! And he had the best lines many of which were sheer poetry/philosophy/Rourke. I was sure he wrote the script, but no. Baldwin was also in excellent form. Actually they all were. Sheryl Lee was a riot having fun with the role -almost too much fun, as the clever "girl who got away." See the film!!! Oh, and the Mom who was always baking pies -too funny. Not a word from her, but she stole the scenes from the ranting Dad.

I saw the last hour or so of this on late-night TV, and so I had the sound turned down pretty far... but even so, the dialogue is mostly muttered or mumbled, and it was nearly impossible to tell any details about what was going on. Havingread the summary, I do believe I got the gist of what it was supposed to beabout. It's got a pretty solid cast, which is why I decided to stay up and see it through - Sheryl Lee, Mickey Roarke, Jason London, David Arquette - surely at least one of these actors should have been on it? Alas, only Mickey Roarkecomes close, and that's because his character has hardly any nuance - he's just the vicious thug at the top of the heap of vicious thugs. And there's just a whole lot of sweaty guys, in close shots with a key light picking them out of a dark background (this happened consistently), wearing filthy wifebeaters andamusing 50's hick town haircuts. Or maybe that's just Billy Baldwin, but good lord, he sure is sweaty, and his head sure is pointy. There's the whole bondage and violence aspect, which does indeed take on a heavily homoerotic tinge.The addition of Sheryl Lee, looking bizarrely aged, as a bank employee who is nowhere near as sweet and naive as she seems, strikes me as an afterthoughtto make sure that it's not all just sweaty, muscled guys with D.A.'s punching each other around and tying one another up. The pacing is bizarre (by the time the final violent climax happens, I was so de-sensitized to bullets and blood that I hardly recognized it as a climax), the acting is either wooden or way over the top (watching Billy Baldwin, you'd think this was a comedy; watching Jason London, you'd think he'd just come out of dental surgery), and to say that the plot "twists" were predictable would be a redundancy. Oh well, I guess a movie was made,and a cast and crew got paid; other than that, I see no reason for this to have ever existed.