The Fall Guy Review

 

The Fall Guy is an action comedy movie loosely based on the 1980s tv series of the same name. It's produced by 87North Productions and Entertainment 360 and distributed by Universal Pictures. The Fall Guy is written by Drew Pearce and directed by David Leitch.

The story is, after blaming himself for a stunt gone wrong, stuntman Colt Seavers abandons both his career and girlfriend Jody. Eighteen months later, Colt is soon brought to Jody's movie set for production on her first film, Colt soon finds out that's not the true reason why he's here. His actual job is to find the movie's main star and bring him back or the movie will be canceled. The more Colt searches, the more he learns there's something else going on.

Initial Reaction

My reason is the exact same as Bullet Train. David Leitch has been doing an amazing job with the action genre, so wanted to see what he did with this.

Cons

I've got nothing.

Middle Ground

Now there's plenty of times when the movie is pretty funny. But you do have some jokes that aren't bad, there just more in the okay category.

Pros

One thing that works is the pacing. The Fall Guy clocks in at 2hrs and 5min, yet it really didn't feel that way. It felt like it was only an hour, maybe even shorter than that. Then we have the action. I know big surprise I'm praising David Leitch for action, but if it's done right you should praise it. Anyhow, the action is not only exciting, but can also be very funny. It was a blast to watch. I think my favorite might have been the finale. Because it incorporated both physical fights, but also had the fictional stunt crew use their props and explosive equipment as weaponry. Then there's the story. No, there's nothing sophisticated or something to analysis for your big college essay, but it's simple fun. You get an entertaining love story, something fun with seeing how the crew is making their movie, and of course a fun little mystery. The last thing I'll credit is Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt. They had really good chemistry together, and you almost buy them being couple who broke up but are now trying to patch things up.

While not perfect, I still really dug The Fall Guy, maybe if you're planning to see this maybe you'll enjoy this too.

My final rating is, Good.

I just realized something, but this movie was a full circle moment for David Leitch. He started out as a stuntman and now he's made a movie about a stuntman. That's all for now. Come back on Monday, May 6th, for my review of the final season of Star Wars: The Bad Batch. I know today would've been perfect given it's May the 4th Be with You, but I was looking forward to this movie more. That's probably a blasphemous thing to say given I'm a Star Wars fan, but it's the honest truth. Anyways, until then, enjoy the rest of your day.