Film Review - The Fall Guy (2024)

The Fall Guy is based off of the TV Series and stars Ryan Gosling as a stuntman recovering from an on set accident when he is asked to go to Sydney, Australia to stunt double for Tom Ryder (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) at the request of his director Jody (Emily Blunt) but while in Sydney Tom goes missing and the stunt man must now go and find him so Jody can finish her film Metalstorm.

The Fall Guy is a lot of fun and is the type of Romancing the Stone knockoff that February’s Argylle utterly failed to be with a dash of Robert Altman’s great film the Player from 1992 thrown in for good measure and some of the movie stuff I had a lot of fun.

Also good fun is Gosling as Colt the titular stunt man and for the second time in a row I have enjoyed him in a movie, that Kenergy from Barbie last year must have rubbed off on him as he is as fun and enjoyable here as he was in that film, Taylor-Johnson is good as well as are Winston Duke as a stunt coordinator, Stephanie Hsu in a small role and Hannah Waddingham and Teresa Palmer (good South Australian kid) in their roles.

But what didn’t work as well for me was Emily Blunt, don’t get me wrong she is a great actress but I didn’t really like her all that much in this role as it feels like she has little to no chemistry with Gosling and he just towers over her in their scenes together and that wasn’t the case when he was playing against Margot Robbie in Barbie last year, personally I would’ve gone with her Devil Wears Prada co-star Anne Hathaway for this role as has that similar vibe to what Gosling does and they would’ve made a much better pairing.

And so that was the Fall Guy and Blunt aside this is a fun time at the movies and for film lovers, 3 and a half out of 5.