The Fall

Sophomore Indian director Tarsingh ("The Cell") goes off the rails with a movie best described as Tweet! Tweet! Arf! Arf! Lee Pace (television’s "Pushing Up Daisies") plays bedridden ‘20s era stuntman Roy Walker whose girlfriend left him for their film’s leading man after a stunt accident. At a missionary hospital where Roy recovers he’s visited by a precocious 5-year-old patient named Alexandria (Catinca Untaru) that he plies with surreal adventure stories to persuade her to steal him bottle of morphine that he can use to overdose on. The director’s eye for painterly compositions only adds to the film’s sleep-inducing quality. This movie sucks.

Rated R. 116 mins. (D-) (Zero Stars)