The new movie “The Fall Guy” is another one of those bad films where the more interesting story is how so many people, for so many months and years, can collaborate and then create something this bad. Considering how much money and time is involved with creating a big budget movie like this one, its almost impossible to believe that this movie exists.
The screenplay for this movie is so bad, it is almost as if there was no screenplay, where disjointed and idiotic scenes are slapped together thinking that because of two well-known stars, Ryan Gossling, and Emily Blunt, there is no need to spend money and time to write and then re-write a coherent script. “All we need are some special effects and two well-known actors, who cares about the screenplay or anything else”. This seems to be the mantra of too many movies in recent years, and over time the movie going public is going to get sick of of this and demand quality over numerous explosions.
There is no recognizable plot here, other than the main character, a movie stunt man Colt Seavers, played by Ryan Gosling and a stunt coordinator Jody Moreno, played by Emily Blunt are making an action movie and slowly become more than friends. Within 30 minutes of this, most of the audience will go into “what is going on black-out mode” hoping that the whole nightmare will be over soon. Then realizing that with a too-long running time of two hours and six minutes, that a decision (which I almost made about 10 times) to leave early is the number one thought on your mind – no longer the bad movie.
This film could also be another example of a production studio manipulating the critics ratings on Rotten Tomatoes to a ridiculously high 83% for a movie that should get only 50% for the stunts and special effects. My rating is 40% mainly due to the two well known actors, rating this a huge miss at the very start of the blockbuster movie season.
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