The Guardian's review of Zip Wire, a new thriller released on digital platforms from 31 August, dismisses the film as a "silly, low-adrenaline" effort that fails to generate any real tension. It centres on Amy, a British research scientist who has discovered a lung cancer cure, and follows her as she becomes the target of a conspiracy involving contract killers and a coded notebook of her findings, ultimately leaving her stranded on a rickety century-old zip wire in the Italian Dolomites.

The reviewer criticises the film's reliance on stereotypes, including Amy's OCD, depicted through her refusal to remove rubber gloves, and syrupy flashbacks to her mother's death that are meant to explain her drive. Saffron Burrows appears as the pharmaceutical CEO bankrolling Amy's research, in what the review calls now-standard casting for this type of British thriller, while the zip wire itself, originally built in the First World War to move supplies, becomes an implausible setting for the film's action.