THE FALL GUY Movie Review | Ryan Gosling | Emily Blunt | David Leitch

“The Fall Guy” is a total blast and the perfect popcorn movie to kick off the summer. Director David Leitch’s action comedy is a love letter to stuntmen, and we loved that about it. Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt have crazy chemistry as a veteran stuntman and a first-time director, respectively, who flirt and fight while trying to finish an over-the-top sci-fi movie, which happens to be missing its star (Aaron Taylor-Johnson). Co-starring Winston Duke, Hannah Waddingham and Stephanie Hsu. Written by Drew Pearce, based on “The Fall Guy” ’80s TV series starring Lee Majors. In theaters May 3.
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we’ve always been doing all of our own
stunts here at breakfast all day but
especially this week talking about the
Fall
Guy this is the big summer blockbuster
to kick things off remember when summer
began like Memorial Day weekend and then
just kept inching up the calendar so at
least we’re in may now just barely but
sure we’ll allow it the director we’re
going to set this man on fire you’re a
stunk guy we need to keep it profes
profes is my middle name you said your
middle name was Danger goling is Colt
sers and he’s a really terrific stunt
man and uh he’s in love with a camera
operator named jod played by Emily Blunt
uh and then a stunt goes wrong and he is
injured and uh spends 18 months
recuperating in that time the two of
them break up because he just can’t deal
with you know his own uh being
physically broken and and and you know
her wanting to help out and be there for
him just when he’s hit his Rock Bottom
he gets a call from a producer they want
him on a film that jod is directing in
Sydney can he please go and uh do his
stunt work magic and he gets there only
to find out jod doesn’t know anything
about this and is not necessarily
thrilled to see him again but before
they can even figure out where they are
with their relationship the star of the
movie Tom Ryder is missing oh no can
Colt help out in finding him can the
movie get finished on time um lots of
craziness going on and both the movie in
the movie and and just the pursuit of
the missing movie star uh provides
director David Le leech with the excuse
to do a lot of amazing stunts involving
cars and people on fire and people
falling off of things and into other
things and this movie is a real love
letter to stunts and stunt work and it’s
it and it’s most fun when Ryan Gosling
and Emily Blunt are just being a couple
and bantering and and and kind of like
you know busting each other’s chops and
trying to rebuild their love story the
least interesting part is is trying to
chase down the movie star but thankfully
I think the movie kind of knows this and
so it only throws us that plot every so
often to remind us that it is the plot
but it’s the least interesting thing
going on you’ll want to go for Gosling
and blunt you’ll want to go for a very
funny script that has a lot of a lot of
really solid laughs in it and the
extraordinary stunt work on display yeah
I almost wonder whether the actual plot
that drives the thing is intentionally
kind of boring and Bal in a nod to the
movie’s Origins right the F guy used to
be a TV show in the 80s starring Lee
Majors named Colt sers so there’s some
you know tie him back to that I wonder
if this is intentionally
blah uh that is a that’s a very kind
read this isn’t you know Sean or what
was the Hot Fuzz this isn’t Hot Fuzz so
I don’t know but we we we’ll go with
that sure yeah it’s a nod how crappy the
show was yeah no I had so much fun
though because they have just crazy
chemistry like if you even just saw
Emily Blunt and Ryan Gosling present
together the Oscars you knew like they
just have that thing like great timing
they look fantastic together it’s very
sexy and light and funny and Breezy um
this movie is is a love letter to stunt
work as you said and so much of the fun
of it for me or for I think anybody who
loves how the process works is they make
you really feel like you were on a set a
lot of this movie feels like its own
behind the scenes making of featurette
and that’s great I think that’s really
cool so like long tracking shots where
Emily Blunt is like talking to this
person and talking to the costume person
and talking to the stunt coordinator
played by Winston Duke who has a very
funny running bit with movie quotes So
you feel like you are in the midst of
the the rush of the chaos of creation
and that is very exciting um David Leech
of course was a longtime stunt man stunt
coordinator and that’s how he you know
made his bones before going on to be a
filmmaker himself um there is a little
clip in the beginning of various other
movies with big stunts in them including
Atomic blonde which is the David Leech
movie so um from the very beginning it’s
extremely meta it’s very aware it’s
aware that it’s a movie about movie
making it’s aware that you know that
it’s about movie making and the love of
of Cinema um so it’s um it’s kind of
infectious in that way but it’s too long
like the actual plot is like it’s over
two hours long and does not need to be
this could have had a good solid 20
minutes trimmed out of it of the pursuit
you know of who who’s doing what to whom
but within that structure there are some
cool sequences um there’s a whole thing
where Ryan Gosling’s character Colt has
to go to this nightclub to find a guy to
get the thing and you know it’s very
meuy um but he takes a drink of
something that like Alters his mind and
then that whole stunt choreography plays
out in a really colorful emblazened kind
of way that’s that’s cool there’s a bit
involving a truck and Stephanie shoe and
a music
interlude with that that is one of many
examples of the needle drops that are
knowingly on the nose and very amusingly
so like there’s I don’t want to say the
line but the line where like the song is
saying a thing and then you are seeing
that thing in front of you yeah um but
having said that there’s a a weird cross
cutting between that chase and then a
thing at a bar I don’t want to give away
too much there’s two things going on at
once I think the cross cutting depletes
the the momentum of them both yeah it
doesn’t quite work as well as they think
it’s going to especially because like
Emily Blunt is a really good singer like
you know if you if you saw into the
woods you know where Mary poppin returns
you know she can carry a tune and so
she’s doing a karaoke of of a perfectly
chosen song which I won’t give away they
keep overlaying the real version of the
song over her I’m like just let her sing
it like we know the song we know what it
sounds like just let her sing it it’ll
be fine you know and so that just adds a
whole other layer of stuff going on that
that scene doesn’t really need those are
the exceptions the moments where I was
like oh this isn’t because and I did not
care for leech’s last film um bullet
train i bullet train I think this one is
carrying off far better the sort of
humorous Swagger and like you know kind
of jaunty banter that that movie was
aching to get to and just it to me it
felt like I was just the the gears were
grinding a lot this one I think is just
really Zippy and fun and fast um I like
how they’re playing with sort of
cinematic conventions and telling you
that they’re playing with cinematic
conventions while they’re doing it I
like to have this deep bench of really
fun character actors Winston Duke
Stephanie 2 um Hannah watting ham even
Aaron Taylor Johnson who I generally
don’t have great feelings for as an
actor because he is playing the movie
star here and is playing him as a vain
douchy [ __ ] like he knows how to play
that he’s he’s giving me that character
really well and he’s you know it’s It’s
the funniest thing I think I’ve ever
seen him do in a movie um so yeah I I I
had a great time it just this is hands
down like a popcorn movie with no
pretentions of being anything else but
you know what you can do a popcorn movie
badly and this one does it pretty well
yeah this is written by Drew Pierce who
also did Hobs and Shaw and he wrote Iron
Man 3 and there are so many really
inspired little details like the names
on the posters of the other movies that
this Tom Ryder character did there’s a
whole running bit with Post-it notes and
what’s on the Post-it notes like there
like stuff with text messages that go by
so fast that you’re going to want to
rewatch that part at home to see what
they say like a lot of care went into
specific details with these characters
with their clothes with their
backstories and so um I enjoyed all that
one of the things with Ryan goling one
of the running bits with his character
is he’s always looking for a good cup of
coffee yes he cannot find coffee
anywhere the machines work he can’t get
someone to bring him a cup of coffee on
set but if he had coffee Brothers Coffee
on the go with him wherever he was he be
an even better stunt man we could hook
him up here at breakfast all day
directly to him they really would anyway
they would probably drop it like a
little drone could drop it to him he
probably catch it midair as he’s leaping
onto a helicopter he could like grab his
coffee um but we have a deal with them
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character would too there you go if they
had extended the coffee bit just a
little bit longer they would have gone
into full Bruce Willis in Hudson Hawk
territory whose running joke is that he
can’t get a
cappuccino very funny all right so what
is your number on the fogy i’ say a 7.8
I think that in terms of what it aspires
to be and wants to accomplish it’s doing
most of it and I had a very good time
watching it I laughed a lot I was
thrilled with the stunts I just enjoyed
myself and so you know is it a movie
that is gonna I’m going to remember
years from now not necessarily but if
it’s one that pops up on TV I’m like oh
let’s let’s watch some of this you know
yeah I would say an eight a solid eight
like it’s just good dumb fun but maybe
too much of it but then like all David
Leech movies kind of go on too long
there’s always like a muchness which for
some people I’m sure is a feature and
not a bug so B guys out this Friday this
is an early review for you if you see it
let us know and you know what it’s got
It’s about a Woman film director and I
find that kind of progressive for an
action movie doing a big dumb movie and
what the big dumb movie is about is
hilarious too anyway yes go go check it
out