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The Fall Guy Full Movie Download
Director: David Leitch
Producer: Kelly McCormick, David Leitch, Ryan Gosling, Guymon Casady
Writer: Drew Pearce
Writer: Drew Pearce
The Fall Guy Full Movie Review
A love letter to those who die for a living collides head first with a goofy romance in The Fall Guy. The film discards the bounty-hunting premise of its primetime source material, but retains protagonist Colt Seavers (Ryan Gosling), a stuntman whose specialized training comes in handy when he gets roped into solving a mystery. Despite being awkwardly strung together at times, The Fall Guy has flair, and it oozes star power. It’s wanting in some regards, but for an action-comedy that takes a tongue-in-cheek look at the film industry, its charisma and chemistry are just enough.
Gosling has delivered hilarious performances before – in The Nice Guys, The Big Short, Crazy, Stupid, and most recently but The Fall Guy might be his most accomplished comedic work yet. His dry, matter-of-fact voiceover introduces us to Colt’s picture-perfect fling with camera operator Jody Moreno (Emily Blunt) – which they keep on the down-low since they’re co-workers – and to his job risking life and limb for obnoxious playboy superstar Tom Ryder (Aaron Taylor-Johnson). But when an on-set accident effectively ends his career, Colt retreats into self-loathing and cuts off all contact with everyone in his life, including Jody.
Eighteen months later, he’s forced out of retirement for a Ryder production, when the brash superstar’s producing partner Gail (Hannah Waddingham) convinces him to fly out to Sydney to work on Jody’s directorial debut, the apocalyptic sci-fi opera Metalstorm. However, this turns out to be a ruse by Waddingham’s cunning, grinning exec, because it turns out Ryder has gone missing, and Gail needs Colt’s help to track him down – a rabbit hole that gets much deeper, and much more complicated, to the point that the script even calls out its own winding plot. (Unsurprising, considering director David Leitch’s experience breaking the fourth-wall in
This is a film keenly aware of its flaws – an on-set writer even suggests solving Metalstorm’s third act issues through self-aware commentary, which Jody dismisses as an easy out. And while this doesn’t quite solve The Fall Guy’s problems of occasional confusion or loss of tension, it does help the audience take them a little less seriously. Much more to the movie’s point: Colt and Jody’s awkward reunion leads to some rip-roaring scenarios where the director’s bitterness over being abandoned translates as torturous re-takes of dangerous stunts to put Colt through the wringer. It would feel downright mean if it weren’t so affectionate toward the art of Hollywood stunts, and so farcically presented, with extras in elaborate alien and space cowboy getups eavesdropping on their public confrontations.
Minus the occasional third-act sequence assisted by janky CGI, the stunts are, for the most part, practical, with a strong focus on technique and process. Before co-directing the first Leitch was in Colt’s line of work for several years, so a genuine adoration for the craft permeates every scene. While Leitch is arguably the less accomplished of the original John Wick duo – his colleague Chad Stahelski helmed the groundbreaking Wick sequels, while he made safer and arguably lesser works like and & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw – the action in The Fall Guy has a sense of fun and fluidity befitting its premise. It doesn’t camouflage the stunt people standing in for other actors, but this deepens our appreciation of the artifice, given the dangers involved. It’s a Russian nesting doll of staged mayhem: When Gosling’s double Logan Holladay – who also plays Colt’s stunt assistant, checking on him before and after risky vehicular acts – performs a disorienting eight-and-a-half cannon rolls in an SUV, he’s standing in for an actor who’s playing a character who’s standing in for an actor.
