The Giant Falls is the fourth Netflix movie in five years from Argentinian director Marcos Carnevale. And par for the course with the uberstreamer’s reputation for cranking out blandly watchable mediocrities, they’ve all been modestly ambitious but not particularly memorable. Like All Hail (famous weatherman’s career is destroyed when he whiffs on a historic hailstorm forecast), The Heart Knows (a heart donor’s lover gets involved with the transplant recipient) and Goyo (a romance between an autistic man and a woman 20 years his senior), The Giant Falls rummages around in an extraordinary scenario in search of some profound ruminations on the human condition. Now let’s see if he finds any.
The Gist: Boris (Matias Mayer) is a boat-tour guide at Iguazu National Park, cruising his passengers upriver and through the splashy mists of some of the world’s most beautiful waterfalls. He finishes a tour and moments before he calls it
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