A good movie with some great dialogues and good perfomance from Ortega.6.8/10
Pretty well acted and immersive story dealing w difficult subject matter. The abject horror they feel at the outset is palpable and well portrayed.
There were some slow parts, but overall this was worth the watch. Fun fact: Maddie Ziegler who plays Mia is the girl from the Sia music videos (most famously "Chandelier").
7.4 for me.
the movie started off pretty quickly got straight to the point but I found afterwards was pretty slow and a little boring at times
This is a movie about trauma and recovering from it, specially when you are young and already naturally lost already.
While it starts with a shooting, it could have started with any other kind of traumatic situation. It truly connects with what really victims live and how they try to move on. It also teach us the importance we play has friends, parents or teachers.
I also love that this movie is about the “normal” people that are not perfect, because that’s us. The ones that spend countless days looking at the tv and are not able to move. We are not the new leader that emerged from a trauma.
Jenny Ortega and the score from Finneas are brilliant in portraying this numbness and emotional feeling.
Wow. This honastly impressed me. It has the closest dialogue to real teens I've seen. I feel like it could've been longer. Some things could've been addressed more profoundly.
This is such a stellar movie I wanted to watch it again. I actually had not heard of this movie until it appeared on HBO Max. Jenna Ortega has dropped a series of great movies this year, and this is easily her best role of the bunch. It’s truly a tragic movie from start to end that manages to somehow be very entertaining. It’s certainly not gonna be a movie everyone loves to watch, but it’s one I would highly recommend because of its execution.
Rating: 4.5/5 - 9/10 - Highly Recommend
Solid movie, the acting is great and that opener is both horrendous and masterfully shot. This movie has a great plot, something spoken about a lot but rarely transcended to film.
That acting is awesome. The story is good, although I don't understand those all feelings. Maybe because I am not a teenager, or maybe because there are no such cases where I live in Europe.
Such an emotional movie. Really good story line, I need a part 2!
This movie makes you think about many things, mainly because it keeps happening and the governments don't cut the problem at the root... I've really come to think that they don't care about the lives of others.
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Not a bad movie. It pretty much follows one person's ups and downs after a school shooting. Everyone and everything else becomes secondary.
For the most part this is an "After School Special" style of movie except a little more mature.
How I rate:
1-3 :heart: = seriously! don't waste your time
4-6 :heart: = you may or may not enjoy this
7-8 :heart: = I expect you will like this too
9-10 :heart: = movies and TV shows I really love!
Simplistic in plot and yet incredibly deep in characterization, The Fallout does a fantastic job explaining how it might feel to go through a school shooting and cope afterwards. I imagine it changes you fundamentally; in addition to that, your relationships with friends and family also transition into a different state as no one really knows what to say or do or feel. I would have given it 8/10 for the acting alone, but I'm not sure if I'm going to seek out tragedies like this to watch routinely.
The good stuff:
** Jenna Ortega seems like she's been in everything lately, but keep it coming! Since this movie, she's been in Scream, Studio 666 and X, and I like her in all of it. She doesn't play a diverse set of characters yet, but she is very enjoyable on screen and really gets into some depth with this character.
** Why did I know the girl who plays Mia, but didn't recognize her exactly? Because it's been a few years since I've seen Maddie Ziegler in every Sia video ever. She's 19 now (born 3 days after Jenna Ortega) and they had a great onscreen chemistry. After taking some serious public hits from her role in Music, she came back to perform a well-constructed character that shows the viewer they may not know everything they think they know about social media darlings.
** The Cavell family (Jenna Ortega's parents and sister) was also a wonderful part of the story. Julie Bowen (Modern Family) and John Ortiz (in the "That Guy" Hall of Fame) and newcomer Lumi Pollack were portrayed as concerned, confused, and supportive. The screaming scene is particular was fantastic and emotional.
** The shooting scene was purposefully short and purposefully off-screen, which definitely made it more impactful.
The bummers:
-- I would have liked to see Quinton (Niles Fitch, This is Us) a little more. After the tragedy, he could've been a bigger part of the story.
Honestly, there weren't a lot of bummers. This movie was a fantastic portrayal of an event that is on the minds of students and parents alike. It was deep but not preachy, intense but not artificially dramatic, and told a solid story without inventing foolish plot devices. A very good watch.
Shout by NyxBlockedParent2022-03-17T03:33:00Z
A painfully honest look at the emotional aftermath of school shootings in the USA from a teenager's perspective. It's hard to watch, but worth the time.