Journey from the Fall Critic Reviews
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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 the full review
Even when its wires are showing, the movie's soul is always evident.Read the full review
A post-Vietnam War boat people saga is launched to compelling effect in Journey From the Fall, a sleek U.S. production.Read the full review
A movingly rendered, stirringly photographed first feature by Ham Tran.Read the full review
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 the full review
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 the full review
