The Fall Guy - Simple, Forgettable Fun

If the John Wick series and David Leitch’s films have taught us anything, it’s that no one understands the action genre like stuntmen.

The Oscar really need a Best Stunt category. They deserve all the love.

Not every movie NEEDS to be a masterpiece, sometimes you just want to have a bit of fun to forget about life for a while, and this certainly does the job and a good job at that.

This movie is a reboot of an American TV show that ran from 81-86. That show was inspired by the Burt Reynolds film Hooper(1978) and the Steve Railsback / Peter O’Toole movie The Stunt Man. BTW, Railsback gave an electrifying performance that looked like it would launch his career. He took a role playing Charlie Manson and his performance was so riveting and chilling that it derailed his career. Gosling’s character Colt Seivers has the same name as Lee Majors’. The non stunt sequences match the original TV show where the stunt men would moonlight as bounty hunters, an occupation a Scot might be unfamiliar with.

To answer one of Drinker's questions about the plot, the movie makes it very clear he had physically fully recovered from the accident, but mentally he had lost the edge. He no longer felt invincible so he wasn't willing to put his body on the line until he was first told that Emily Blunt requested him to be there, and then to save her movie.

"Why does Ryder's girlfriend try to murder Colt with a samurai sword when she's got no idea who he is, why he's there or what he wants?" Women are just like that.

Girlfriend & I saw this last night and I was really pleasantly surprised. It’s a great throwback to simple, fun summer action comedies. I hadn’t realized it was the same director as Bullet Train (which I loved), but it makes a ton of sense in retrospect. It’s in no way groundbreaking, but I would rewatch it without any issue tonight. Just pure fun at the theater.

I might fall from a tall building,i might roll a brand new car cause Im the unknown stuntman that made Redford such a star." . Great song from a show I used to love 😂

He did Bullet Train and Nobody? I'm watching it.

We're getting back to the days of enjoyable films with MASS appeal instead of fringe appeal. The tide is turning, folks...

The wife and I saw it yesterday, and we rather loved it. I had a number of call backs to the mostly forgotten TV Show of the same with a cameo at the end by Lee Majors, who starred in the show. There is also a sound effect in the movie from the Six Million Dollar Man (also a mostly forgotten hit show. Also starring Lee Majors). We left the theater thoroughly delighted and glad we went. Of course, we're also old enough to remember the original TV show. Then again, we're also old enough to remember TV.

The chemistry was great, but a little predictable is accurate. Still worth a watch

"Simple, Forgettable Fun" I want more of these types of films. I miss when theatres were flooded with these movies over the summer season where I could settle in with some snacks and shut out the outside world and just enjoy myself for 2 hours and then go on with my day. Not every damn movie needs to be an all time classic or a box office record breaker.

This was based on more than just old action movies, but a TV show of the same name. I watched it as a kid and it starred the $6 million man himself ... Lee Majors. It was about a stunt man who moonlighted as a bounty hunter when stunt work was slow. Highly recommended.

Lee Majors played Colt Seavers in the TV series The Fall Guy 1981-86. It was fun. I'm looking forward to this film. I heard Lee has a cameo mid credits.

As one of the very few to have actually watched and enjoyed Lee Majors as both the $6 Million Dollar Man and as The Fall Guy, I totally ate it up with the original GMC brown and tan truck at the beginning and end, and the new GMC brown and tan truck he drove in the action sequence plus the Bionic sound effect near the midpoint and Majors as a cop at the end. The remade unknown stuntman theme at closing was icing on the cake.

At this point, "stuntman turned director" is becoming its own genre ... and I'm here for it!

It's middle finger to The Message moves from subtle to overt when it's Emily "When I read the words Strong Female Character I throw the script in the bin" Blunt throwing the punch.

I disagree that its forgettable. I'd actually buy this on bluray because I like the love story, the action is good and I love Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt. The comedy in this one is also good and the scenes with the dog are awesome. I'm a sucker for all those elements so yeah I'd def say its not fogettable. Solid 7.5/10 for me.

My neighbor is a retired stunt man who worked on the Fall Guy TV show (among others). I think I'll take him out to see this one just for fun.