Movie Details
| Title: | The Fall Guy | |
| Director: | David Leitch | |
| Year: | 2024 | |
| Genre: | Action | |
| Times Seen: | 1 | |
| Last Seen: | 09.02.24 |
Other Movies Seen By This Director (3)
- Atomic Blonde
- Bullet Train
- Deadpool 2
| Date Viewed | Venue | Note |
| 09.02.24 | Internet | I knew this was going to be not good but I was hoping for not good in a comforting way, like a slick action movie to carry me along for a couple hours. I think I got that. If you accept the fact that it's not reality that they're living in then it's fine. I think most of the dialogue is actually very smart and inside baseball but Gosling has to deliver them like normal snarky action movie lines for the majority of theoretical audiences who don't know anything about the movie industry. All the product placement stuff and the blatant Chekhov's guns and weaponizing the stunts at the end all point to the film's creative team having fun with itself. I think the unfortunate outcome for the audience though is nothing feels remotely authentic. It's all tongue in cheek. Gosling and Emily Blunt only feel like they actually talk to each other once during the whole movie. The rest of the time they're dialogue with one another is more like verbal choreography. But you know, Bullet Train wasn't real. Deadpool wasn't real. Even John Wick wasn't real, so maybe this movie doesn't need to be either? It's hard to say because when I was a kid I loved the F/X movies with Brian Brown and Brian Dennehy and those are basically 80s versions of this movie. So maybe if I was born in 2008 I'd love this? Probably if I was born in 2008 I'd never watch this because I'd be more into Mr. Beast and skibidi toilet or whatever, which is maybe this film's problem. Anyone old enough to get name recognition from the OG TV Show (much less Burt Reynolds' Hooper which influenced Fall Guy) might want less drug-induced-unicorns. In the end, I thought this was fine. It's missing the rock from Stunt Rock, missing the paranoia from The Stunt Man (although Gosling is a major improvement over Steve Railsback for me but Blunt can't hold a candle to Peter O'Toole), missing the 70s from Hooper, but fits in nicely with the F/X series and has better dialogue than Death Proof (gasp!). I honestly didn't think it was terrible. Not great, but not terrible. |
