The Fall Guy

The Fall Guy

PG-1320242h 7mAction, Drama,
6.882%84%
He's a stuntman, and like everyone in the stunt community, he gets blown up, shot, crashed, thrown through windows and dropped from the highest of heights, all for our entertainment. And now, fresh off an almost career-ending accident, this working-class hero has to track down a missing movie star, solve a conspiracy and try to win back the love of his life while still doing his day job. What could possibly go right?
Movies based on television shows are a mixed bag. For ever movie like The Fugitive or The Naked Gun we get a McHale’s Navy or It’s Pat (I’m counting it whether you like it or not). Although I like Ryan Gossling and felt he could be a good Lee Majors replacement I wasn’t sold till I heard who the director was. David Leitch directed Deadpool 2, Bullet Train and co-directed John Wick after his years as a stunt man and co-founder of 87North Studio, their stunt house and production offices. With his time as an actual stunt man, who better to direct a movie about a stunt man? This movie was charming, fun and lighthearted. It was surprisingly clean as well, very little language and nothing too sexual. The violences was PG-13 level, which works with the light tone of the movie. The story is about a stunt man who gets injured on set doing a fall. He breaks several bones and goes into a spiral well after he was healed till a director asks for him to work on a new movie. It turns out that director didn’t ask for him. They used to date. Someone else set this up because there was some bad thing happening on set and the start disappeared. They wanted Colt Seavers (Gossling) to snoop around and see what he can find out about the disappearance. He reluctantly agrees and the action begins. The movie has a fun premise mostly retained from the tv series. Gosling and Emily Blunt were good together. Their verbal sparring reminded me of shows from my childhood, like Moonlighting. Granted, Moonlighting did it much better, but this was still really fun. The action scenes look fantastic. Leitch’s and 87North’s process for action scenes to stage them in their studio and shoot them on GoPro camera, edit them and see what works and what doesn’t. They are very meticulous with their action scenes…and it shows. The script was fun and just clever enough to stay away from the bad movie remake of a tv show cliche. There are some great moments with cameos by some of the original cast and the supporting actors were great. Hannah Waddingham from Ted Lasso and Aaron Taylor-Johnson (Kick Ass, Bullet Train) were the real stand outs in supporting roles here. They were so much for to watch that you secretly wanted more of them, but know if you got too much then you may not like their character anymore and you’d be sad so you decide to boycott Mission Impossible 8 to send a message to Hannah Waddingham that you won’t support her work because she keeps outshining the cast. It’s a sad situation. You should be happy with what you get.

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