Last night after I got from work I sit down to finally watch The Fall Guy, I usually leave comedy for latter so this past two days I'm back to back with Dungeons & Dragons and now The Fall Guy and I find The Fall Guy better, although both are really funny, its just my personal take. I had no idea what to expect as it’s based on an old TV show from the 80s that I never watched, but director David Leitch has managed to make something that feels fresh; not necessary new, and entertaining with a quite unique concept of how it makes you feel about the point of view where you watching the movie. It’s a sweet romance, a funny action movie and it takes us behind the scenes of film making, but it’s the less famous heroes of action movies who this time take the glory, the stunt man.
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Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt lead the way on this action comedy, and I have to admin that their performance nail it, their chemistry really jumps off the screen and every scene they are in is special, feels special for them, its a romance story after all, but what really stood out to me was how it manages to show us the movie magic that’s taking place in front of the camera as well as all the chaos that’s going on behind it. It seems like mostly practical effects instead of CGI, the stunts scenes are pretty good close to incredible in some of them.
The story centers on Colt Seavers played by Gosling, a veteran stuntman who is the go to double for megastar Tom Ryder. Colt does not return to Hollywood until after a terrible accident puts him out of action, and when he does, he gets an unexpected call to work on a new movie. Surprise for him, this movie is being directed by his ex girlfriend Jody Moreno played by the gorgeous Emily Blunt, he hasn't spoken to since the break up, but of course things get complicated when the movie star Tom Ryder goes missing and Colt finds himself investigating his disappearance while trying to win back Jody’s heart.
It’s got a nice little plot, with a few different story lines mix with each other to keep you interested the whole way through. Gail Meyer played by Hannah Waddingham is producer of Colt, she is the one who actually completely tricked Colt into going to Sydney under the expectations that Jody specifically ask for him when it was not the case but her real agenda was for Colt to find Tom Ryder. It also paves the way for some really awkward but hilarious moments between Jody and Colt, they work together while trying to get over their unresolved feelings for each other. Meanwhile, Colt's stunt skills are put to the test in real world situations, most of them includes a lot of comedy making it exciting and you will laugh a lot, its during the process of trying to find Tom Ryder, Colt figures out that he cant perform this stunts on real life, reminds me the Disney movie Bolt where an acting dog goes through the same experience, funny stuff.
Colt Seavers is so well played by Ryan Gosling, absolutely nailing it as he did in Barbie, but with his own spin on this character. Colt is likeable, funny guy who sells himself, a kind of Ryan Renolds but way less dark humor, even when he's doing over the top stunts. But it’s the way he reads his lines, especially the way he quotes famous action movies to his friend Dan played by Winston Duke, most of the time the comedy aspects hits timing correctly. Emily Blunt playing Jody, matches Colt energy perfectly, providing us with a character who is at once proving herself as a first time director and having to reconcile the return of the man who broke her heart, like two opposite poles who eventually flip and attract each other, specially with their scenes together have this great push and pull dynamic, you want them to work it out, just do it jajaja.
I also want to special mention Aaron Taylor Johnson as Tom Ryder, he plays the egotistical actor perfectly, without going completely over the top, he is just fixed on he fact that he MUST do all his own stunts, which becomes a running gag that comes into its own. There is one character I think needed to be develop a bit more and more screen time considering her influence during the story and that's Gail Meyer played by Hannah Waddingham but she still does a great job as part of the support cast.
The Fall Guy ends with a banger, that's is another aspect of the movie, it does a great job a closing the story. After finding out that Tom and Gail have been working together on a frame for Colt of various crimes, our heroes come up with the perfect plan to expose them, sorry for the spoiler but not sorry, this movie has been out for quite some time. Jody's entire stunt team in his movie, Metalstorm, come together to help catch Tom in a trap, particularly his insistence that he do his own stunts, they use his own ego against him to get him to confess to his crimes, the stunt sequence that leads to the confession scene puts Tom in real danger, just as he endangered Colt at the beginning of the movie.
The Fall Guy was really entertaining during the entire time, as both an action movie and a romantic comedy, it is not rare achievement although not one so easy to hit specially keeping the romance part as relevant as the action side, and one to which very few filmmakers achieve this. The movie does a good job of explaining how much hard work goes into making action movies, without taking the film too seriously. Colt and Jody’s romance is believable and the journey back to each other is believable, despite all the crazy action that’s going on around them.
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