Have to say, I never thought I’d ever publish a review for a movie about waterfalling, or any other subject for that matter. Heck, I never thought I’d ever see a movie about waterfalling. If it’s worth nothing else, this movie shows just how popular the pursuit has become.

It’s a Hallmark Movie, which means it’s the same as every other Hallmark movie: Girl meets boy, girl and boy do stuff, girl and boy overcome some sort of conflict, girl and boy fall in love, girl and boy go off into the sunset. If you’ve never seen a Hallmark movie, I apologize for the spoiler.

This isn’t really a review, but more an assessment of how accurately the movie treats the waterfalling and waterfall photography aspects. And to that, I could sum it up with a single word: Ridiculously. Enough said. Except, where’s the fun in that? I mean, a movie like this deserves all the trash talk I can give it. This is much more fun than a stodgy ol’ book review.

The storyline under the shadow of the typical Hallmark plot is about photographer Amy (Cindy Busby) getting a magazine gig to photograph remote waterfalls with the goal of capturing a couple of rarely seen falls. Mark (Christopher Russell) is the local guide who helps Amy find one of the mystical waterfalls but asks her not to divulge its location. (Hmm, wonder how that's gonna work out.) Oh, they fall in love along the way.

So, the waterfalling and photography:

• Amy shows up for a waterfalling adventure into the rugged wilds to photograph difficult-to-reach waterfalls and brings nothing but sneakers and dress boots for footwear.
• Mark hooks her up with brand new boots, which she wears to several waterfalls and on an overnight backpacking trip. At the end of the movie, she loads the boots in the car and they look as clean and new as they were when she bought them.
• Amy, a professional photographer, photographs every waterfall in bright sunlight, with the waterfalls bathed in ugly contrasty lighting.
• Amy doesn’t have a tripod, so every shot is handheld, with most shots horizontal even though the waterfalls she shoots scream for a vertical composition.
• There is no polarizing filter on Amy’s lens. (If you’re a waterfall photographer, you know this is a biggie.)
• Speaking of Amy as a professional photographer, I agree with one IMDb reviewer who said, “There should be training for these actors on how to pretend to take photos because this one was really bad.”
• No one knows where the mythical Redwood Falls is located except Mark, and he says he probably couldn’t find it again. Amy finds it accidentally at the end of the movie and it’s on a fairly large stream. So, a local guide can’t find a waterfall that he’s already been to, that’s on a large stream, that’s close enough to the lodge that Amy stumbled upon it in a few hours? Follow the river, dude!

Bottom line? Hey, it’s a movie about chasing waterfalls. It’s maybe the only movie about chasing waterfalls. It’s worth watching just for that.

Oh, BTW, the waterfall scenes were filmed in British Columbia and the movie was released in 2021.