Hear me out. Fall 2022 is the talk of the town. A movie about two girls stuck up a pole made for excellent viewing. So when I saw another title, The Ledge with a similar ethos, I was keen to watch it. I was excited about the premise for this title which takes one of a group of climbers and traps them on the side of a mountain to fight off a bunch of frat boys who want her dead.
Fall shouldn’t have worked as well as it did. However, the filmmakers employed tried and tested working formulae (like in The Shallows) and remade the premise in a different setting. The Ledge movie takes a well-known route too. Certain elements within its narrative were intuitive. But the rest fell flat just like the majority of characters.
The ledge worked bro code mentality into the story. Bros who protect others, bros, at all costs with a group of bros taking to the forest to do some climbing as a bucks party.
The bros run into two girls who are also marking an important event by climbing the same very big rock. Kelly (Brittany Ashworth) is mourning her boyfriend’s death on this specific cliff face so she wants to get to the top in his memory. Her friend Sophie (Anaïs Parello) has come along for moral support.
The two girls and the lads end up sitting around a fire for the evening when they all arrive at the same time. One thing leads to another and Josh (Ben Lamb), one of the four men, decides being turned down by a woman in front of his mates is a great reason to try and rape her. So he follows her into the forest as she heads off to pee.
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After the failed attack, Sophie runs away into the darkness and falls over the edge of a cliff. Back at the camp, her screams are audible. The lads head in to investigate and can generally infer what had taken place. Despite this, bro code kicks in and Josh convinces his mates that they need to finish her off.
Each of them takes a turn bashing her head in with a large rock. It doesn’t end there though, because who else should hear her screams? Her friend Kelly and when she heads off from the cabin to find out what’s happening she also has the presence of mind to take her trusty camcorder and film the men as they make sure she is dead.
The rest of the film sees Kelly decide the cliff face is her best option regarding an escape. She ascends the mountain as the four men wait at the top for her. Yes, that’s right, there is a pathway that also leads to the top and while Kelly tries her best to evade capture by climbing up, Josh, Zach, Reynolds, and Taylor eagerly await her to get there as well. So they can kill her.
Cinematography is the highlight of The Ledge, with great shots of trepidatious footholds and talented climbing on Ashworth’s character Kelly’s part. However, the story loses its footing with the tediousness of it all. The men are all the stereotypical type that lack any kind of empathy or heroism.
It’s sad and disappointing watching films that instill this kind of mentality where its ringleader can call all the shots while being a louse as well. The payoff, though satisfying doesn’t mean much when Kelly would have been better off scaling down real quick and running away.
The Ledge is rated
2.5 The Ledge is not on Netflix out of 5
Is The Ledge on Netflix?
You can watch The Ledge movie on Netflix in the UK. The Ledge is not on Netflix in the USA but it is on Hulu. Check the link below for more ways to watch this title and other great movies.
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The Ledge Cast
The Ledge’s title includes cast members Brittany Ashworth, Ben Lamb, Louis Boyer, Nathan Welsh, Anaïs Parello, and David Wayman.
The Ledge movie is produced by Evolution Pictures and the USA and distributed by Saban Films.
