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Angels Fall

5 star:		(4)
4 star:		(7)
3 star:		(4)
2 star:		(5)
1 star:		(8)

 

 

"Angel's Fall", based on a book written by Nora Roberts, is an engaging movie that is likely to entertain you, and that has enough ingredients of a good thriller to keep you at the edge of your seat.

The main character is Reece (Heather Locklear), a young woman that survived a massacre in her Boston restaurant and has been running from what happened, never settling too long anywhere. Despite that, she decides to settle at least for a little while in a small but very beautiful Wyoming town, Angel's Falls. Reece gets a job at a diner, manages to make some new friend and even meets Brody (Johnathon Schaech), a handsome writer she is somewhat attracted to, even though he irritates her. Unfortunately, Reece's luck doesn't hold, and she ends up witnessing from afar what seems to be a murder. But did Reece really saw a crime, or is she so traumatized by what happened to her in Boston that she is imagining things?

If you are interested in knowing what happened and how things develop between Reece and Brody, simply watch this movie. Truth to be told, it is different from the book on which it is based, but nonetheless good enough on its own to be worth watching. That is the reason why I give this movie 3.5 stars out of 5. Recommended...

Belen Alcat

I have not read the book, but for a TV movie I thought this started out pretty well. The mountainous Western setting is beautiful and the story line kept my interest. Locklear's peculiar facial cosmetic semi-disfigurement is distracting, but the leading man had no such problems, was pretty good, engaging, and so very easy on the eyes. Sadly, the last half degenerated into a laughable made for TV movie. The best was when she was running through a birch tree forest, hysterical with fear, out in the middle of nowheresville on the side of a mountain and was miraculously found by both the boyfriend AND the sherrif simultaneously. WTH? Was she running with a tracking device? The very last scene was kind of like the director yelled "That's a wrap!" before anyone was ready or prepared. Very odd.

I thought the movie was a fine effort - Heather Locklear and Johnathon Schaech do well in their roles, and the plot follows the Nora Roberts formula for the most part, even if not exactly in all the details of the book (what movie does?). Yes, Locklear is a bit older than her lead (in reality we're only talking 8 years). In today's world that's hardly the point, but a few of the reviewers seem to be preoccupied with that rather than the merits of the movie & want to count wrinkles (geez, go play in your room if you've nothing else to do). Locklear, like a number of other mid-aged actresses (Jennifer Aniston, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sharon Stone, Halley Berry anyone?) looks good. It's refreshing that not all actresses have to be 20-somethings for these roles, and frankly, it's about time. We aren't talking Oscar material here, but these kind of movies never are - they're supposed to be lighter fare, like a beach novel, with a bit of suspense, a twist of mystery & romance thrown in, & plausible ending. That's precisely what you've got here. It's entertaining and enjoyable.

The problem with this movie is Heather Locklear. Who casted her? I am a HUGE Nora Roberts fan, I have literally read every one of her novels, more than once. Heather Locklear was WAY TO OLD to portray this character. I couldn't believe her as Reese for one second. Really, it's painful to watch her act like she's 20 something.

This is one of my favorite Nora Roberts books and although no movie can ever be as good as the book I was surprised by this movie. I was a bit scared at the thought of Heather Locklear playing Reese, seeing on how that she is in her early 40's now (I think), but more so because she did not really fit the physical description of Reese in the book. However, I was surprised at her acting and found that I liked her as Reese a lot. Johnathon Schaech as Brody was absolutely PERFECT! He is an extremely good looking guy and was great as the brooding Brody, although unfortunately they did not incorporate that aspect of him in the movie as he was in the book. Still, he was a great choice for the role.
Of course I do think the movie could of been better had they not of cut so much out of it but still, for a 90 or so minute television movie its pretty good. If you are a hardcore Nora Roberts fan and hate to see anything cut of movies that were in the book then you may not like this adaptation, still, its entertaining and full of beautiful people who's acting skills are better than expected.

I never read the book nor did I know there was one. I actually checked this movie out from the library. The movie was actually boring and I was continually distracted by Heather Locklear's appearance. Unfortunately her plastic surgery makes her face appear swollen, distorted and ugly; i could not believe that this woman was once attractive; way too old to play this role in this very dull, uninteresting movie.

I don't understand the negative reviews. Most television movies are pure rubbish. This one actually had a plot, an interesting lead, and a not-so-bad ending. I think this is one of Heather Locklear's better performances. Apparently the negative reviewers love her trashy Melrose Place show. I watched Angels Fall twice and even bought the dvd.

This is an alright movie, but dissapointing after Montana Sky and Carolina Moon. It is worth watching once, but the book is so much better than the movie. I guess the characters in the movie just didn't hold up to what I pictured when I read the book.

I first want to say that I did not read the book this movie is based on. So it is not that I do not like the movie because of changes made to the story. It is just not a good movie. The story is not exciting at all. Heather Locklear was a beautiful woman once, but I kept looking at her cheeks (has she got implants??), she looked so odd. And waaaay too old for this part! Don't understand why she needed plastic surgery, she used to look better than this. But about the story: predictable, not interesting and a bit lame actually. I was sorry to have bought the DVD.
'Montana Sky' was better.

I was so disappointed in the movie. The book is one of my favorites, and while I'm not naive enough to think that you can pack a novel into 90 minutes of film, I was really hopeful they would do a better job than this. Heather Locklear was awful as Reece; too old, too calm, too unemotional. The woman cast as Joanie did an okay job, but the character was changed so much she was almost unrecognizable. And while I know some things must change when a story is adapted for t.v., things that I felt were integral to the characters were changed for no reason I could see (Reece being the one who x'd out the faces in the photo, the fight between Joanie and Reece in the kitchen). Jonathan Schaech did well with what he had to work with, but the romantic scenes between he and Locklear came across, in my opinion, as agressive and somewhat creepy on his part. I felt like if I hadn't read the book the movie would have been very confusing, but since I did the read the book, it was very disappointing. And when did Reece get electro-shock therapy?? I'm going to go read the book now, and hope it scrubs this movie from my mind.