Rated R
Opens: May 3, 2024
Kevin says The Fall Guy Kinda Sucks!
The latest adaptation of a TV series with few similarities to that series is THE FALL GUY.
If you loved the old Lee Majors show about a stunt man helping people on his days off, I have no idea if you’ll like this movie. ‘Cause they’re very different animals. I mean, this is a tongue-in-cheek action movie about a stuntman, but the similarities end there.
The film follows a retired stunt man brought back to work for his ex-lover-slash-director on a sci-fi epic blockbuster. He then has to track down the missing star of the movie.
Yeah, the stunts are fantastic. That’s to be expected. But it’s held together with the filmiest of scripts. It feels like one of those stunt show spectaculars performed at theme parks, with a story as an afterthought and ends up being simultaneously convoluted yet clichéd, and predictable yet baffling.
Stars Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt have chemistry and are fun with the comedy, but their characters at times don’t even seem necessary for the film. We are left with a slick-looking movie about making movies that appears to have no idea how movies are actually made.
THE FALL GUY gets two and a half thumbs up out of five. I’m Kevin Carr, and that’s the way I see it.
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