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Dear God, I watched this movie in the most amazing cinema in London( Electric cinema)and FELL ASLEEP 😐😐😐😐 Boring, Boring, Boring. The plot, the actors, everything was missing. Ryan should really stick with movies like Barbie. There is not any emotion on his face, he can not act or convey emotions. The cinema was beautiful, retro, we had drinks, food, everything was more amusing than the movie itself. The sound wasn't that good, it echoed through the room but ok. The movie has no plot, actors haven't touched me, and I feel like this movie was done only for employees in the film industry, editors, people behind the scenes, stuntmen, directors.

Hollywood resurrects an old concept, pumps it full of protein powder, algorithmic pop, and the unmistakable scent of creative bankruptcy. The result is The Fall Guy, a sunburnt migraine masquerading as a movie.

Gosling and Blunt have the chemistry of two mannequins from ZARA sharing a showroom. The film keeps insisting they're in love; I've seen fiercer sparks between two people reaching for the same ripe avocado. Blunt is trapped in the usual "strong female lead" template - all noise, no nuance - while Gosling floats through the plot like a guilty golden retriever begging for forgiveness.

The Australian beach scene, where Blunt cheerfully overshares details of their fling to the entire crew, is so mortifying I considered blushing on their behalf. And just when you think it can't get dumber, Gosling calls her to discuss their relationship while being chased by assassins on a speedboat. Romance by way of Looney Tunes. Not endearing, just ludicrous.

Even the movie-within-the-movie, Metalstorm (or whatever cardboard title they slapped on it), is a soulless blockbuster parody without the self-awareness.

As for the stunts: the film fires them at you like desperate confetti. There's even a stunt-performing dog, thrown in as a last-ditch plea for audience affection. "Please clap," the movie seems to whimper.

Cherry on the cake is the dreadful pacing. Imagine stop-and-go traffic accompanied by an air horn. And every now and then, it quotes a far better film, as if whispering, "Remember when cinema had soul? We don't.

Almost ok! But not good or great. Could had been.

It was evident that the makers of this movie never saw more than couple of episodes of Fall guy the TV series it's based on. There were more reference to Miami vice tv series than the actual tv series this movie is supposedly based on. First half an hour or so of the movie was pure cringe. The dialogues were written by couple of teenagers who were probably paid in TikTok views. The rom com scenes were cringy and unwatchable.

Action sequences and stunts were excellent but kept getting interrupted by really really awful cringy love story. One scene ( not a spoiler) where the action sequence keeps breaking away to a cringey Karakoram no , made us almost walk out of the movie.

Some of the acting is sooo bad.

If you make a movie based on the TV series Atleast watch every episode of it. We did. The tv series that made every kid want to get a pickup truck and be a stunt man. The tv series which made kids attempt dangerous stunts on their bikes.

And the actual fall guy Lee majors. Makes an appearance post credit? Really. Why even bother.

Was ok but a missed opportunity to make it great.

It's like they thought, "Let's cast a good-looking guy and a super popular actress, who even needs a proper script? Throw in some cheesy dialogues, random over-the-top action scenes just to show off the budget, and people will watch it anyway." I mean, really? It's such a disappointment. Movies like this shouldn't even be made anymore. And honestly, actors this talented shouldn't agree to projects like this just for the paycheck. Around the 30-35 minute mark, I realized it was going nowhere. I wish I'd stopped there and saved my time instead of letting it go to waste. Total letdown. What a waste of time, money, and effort.

This movie was made for one reason: so David Leitch could pat himself on the back for making a movie that acts as a tribute to stunt performers. The problem is, it's all a facade. David: if you're going to make a movie that puts the focus on stunts and stunt performers, why have a cast of obnoxious characters doing improv for over an hour of the movie's runtime? Why did you introduce the movie instead of having the stunt performers do it for once? Why did you not call out each stunt performer by name in the credits, showing which stunts they did and actually show them up close for once? Instead you gave us a clip reel of BTS footage of the movie's stunts that barely even shows the performers' faces (set to a terrible Blake Shelton song that I'm sure he made more money off of than all the stunt performers' pay combined).

This movie spits in the face of the stunt performers who risked their lives to bring the movie to life by not building an interesting movie around the action, and by only acknowledging stunt performers in a very shallow way. David Leitch has shown himself to be a Tropic Thunder character with this self-serving pile of nonsense.

Yeah, and if you unloaded it yourself it would make you cry.

It was already pretty obvious it was going to be a stinker from the first 10 minutes. Rolling exposition, absolutely no time to establish some spark of chemistry and then it is all about the convoluted flimsy love story wrapped in a laughable crime side plot wrapped in the Disneyland shoot of an overblown dumbastic big budget.

Why did I keep watching? Somehow I could not believe how bad they can make them these days. It is like nobody cares because, hell, it's a big budget with two big names so let's just put cardboard characters plus whatever sentimental drivel that's on sale in Hollywood and pack some stunts around and those idiot movie-goers will be plenty pleased.

This is actually this nihilistic cynical 'message' that is heavily tacked, pretending to be like 27th degree humour. "Yay we are showing those bad people despising you and we are pretending to treat you just like that but it is for the big laugh at your expense, because you dumb audiences need to have a lot of self-deprecating humour to sit through this."

I was very disappointed in The Fall Guy! It had a good cast with actors such as Ryan Gosling, Emily Blunt, Hanna Waddingham and others. You would think this would be a winning movie, but it wasn't at all! This movie had no proper plot. It was very stupid almost like a comic book. In fact whoever greenlighted this movie should be fired. This movie was a total waste of time and space.

This movie has no redeeming qualities except for some cool special effects. They should've taken a more realistic approach and came up with a story that featured a real life rugged stuntman and his quest for love with the gorgeous female lead. Instead all you get is a bunch of comic book cartoonish like smash 'em up sequences with no proper resolution.... Take care, Brad P in Cleveland.

Does anyone really like this film....really....honestly?

If so, tastes (& requirements) have diminished, and a new low bar has been set. This film offers nothing in the way of 'conventional' entertainment and is just a clothes horse for talentless writer(s) to indulge in narcissistic nihilism.

Is it really a love story for people unable to love anyone but themselves?

Why does the R. Gosling character love the Emily Blunt Character , she is possibly one of the most repulsive smarmy & shallow poseurs given a lead role in any story ever. Why should the audience care?

I love action films, and was expecting a lot of brilliant stunts, irrespective if the story was any good or not.

Sadly the story isn't just bad it is REPULSIVLEY BAD and the characters aren't just poorly conceived & written , they are REPULSIVEL as well . This film was a painful experience to endure.

The stunts are good, but they are are all sort of 'throw away' moments, instead this is foremost an irksome, cloying LOVE STORY between horrible & shallow people who have no 'genuine' friends' , and a lot of emotional psychological ISSUES !

''Hey.... they work in the film biz, and everyone is like that don't 'cha know! '' Well, even so, they would certainly have a more tangible social life than anyone here seems to have, and probably not have the same OCD disposition these poor creatures of fantasy have been crippled with.

I note a lot of 1 star reviews here (almost all I agree with) couldn't watch past 45 minutes. I lasted 30 minutes. The rest I fast forwarded and stopped here & there, nothing made me want to waste any more time on this.... like several others I had also just watched the non-event CIVIL WAR with similar misgivings.

The two stars I gave here are for the stunts and excellent 'lighting' work.

Whoever did the lighting did an incredible job, as it is a work of art compared to many 'dim & grubby, chroma tinted' efforts of modern times. Unfortunatley , who and what they were lighting wasn't worth most peoples attention.

This film & Civil War were so bad that I didn't even feel inspired to write reviews at first, it just felt like even more time spent on this big distraction & time waste machine called the Media, and Hollywood in particular. Some films are bad and INSPIRING in that their failings are worth considering and discussing. This film just made me want to forget about it as soon as possible.

There seems to be a massive crisis in talent at the moment, with almost no notable writers making films, and Directors stuck in a rut of mediocracy, formulaic cliches & desperately lacking ideas.

It is obvious that film makers now-a-days don't have anything to say. They are typically born & raised in the industry and have little outside perspective, passion or experience to share... just 'fashions' and the latest virtue signalling issues conveyed as crass propaganda.

If relatively new to films, younger than myself etc, then that may be un-noticeable at first, but anyone who's watched many films over many years will certainly have noticed the rapid decline in the medium since around the turn of this century.

There are still plenty of great works of older fiction that could be plundered for ideas- yet when they are the arrogant modern writers usually transmogrify them, until they are unrecognisable; or just more of the same tiresome fodder and check-list-tick boxing for modern 'issues'.

The popular 1980s TV show saw Lee Major's happy-go-lucky stunt man Colt Seavers supplementing his movie income by working as a bounty hunter, assisted by his lovable companions Howie Munson (Douglas Barr) and Jody Banks (Heather Thomas). This film does away with all of the bounty hunter stuff, dispenses with the sidekicks, and introduces a boring romantic subplot, Seavers (played by Ryan Gosling) trying to rekindle his relationship with movie director Jody Moreno (Emily Blunt). Director David Leitch spends more time on the love story than he does on the action, making the film a tedious mess in the process.

To make matters worse, the whole thing feels like it was improvised: the dialogue is atrocious, the performances are weak (Gosling and Blunt have zero chemistry) and the plot is muddled and chaotic. The action takes an age to get to, and isn't handled very well when it happens, with one of the major set-pieces totally ruined by intercutting it with scenes of Blunt singing in a karaoke bar. The ending is an embarrassingly bad mess of tired clichés and sheer preposterousness. Lee Majors shows up in a predictable post-credits scene, but would have been wiser to have stayed well away and preserve his dignity.

2/10.

I watched the first 10 minutes... and started to wonder why it was takign so incredibly long to introduce this protagonist.

I watched the next 10 minutes... and I was still wondering when the fun was gonna start.

I watched a few minutes more and I gave up on it. I stopped watching.

I'm fine with a movie not having a plot. I very happily watched many Jackie Chan and other similar Hong Kong movies. It's totally fine as long as you give me action, comedy, ... something.

The first 25 minutes fo the movie just gave me nothing.

25 minutes spent telling me stuff that can be told in 4 minutes, no comedy at all, and very little action.

I love the art of stunts and when the director introduces his movie by saying he is a stuntman, that sets a high bar for what's to come. But I feel bad for stuntmen if this is the representation they get. Action scenes are extremely unbelievable, but that's not the biggest problem. They are so fake that it completely brings you out of the movie. No hits seem to land and at one point you wouldn't even know what's going on if it weren't for a loud bite sound. The sound design is carrying the action hard in this movie.

The rest of the movie is even worse. A missing person case turns into a murder case and all of the usual twists and turns unfolds. But this feels like the subplot of an entire different movie. It's supposed to be a romantic movie, but that's pushed aside for this storyline that just wastes time instead of developing the movies strengths. Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt. While they don't get a lot from the script, at least they do their jobs as actors and has somewhat of a chemistry. The problem is that they have so little screen time that just makes the movie drag in between. If you are going to be a clichéd romantic action movie, why not just follow a working formula where they are both in this together instead of having them on separate places all the time? Instead we have a movie that doesn't know if it wants to be romance or action.

Then we have the script. As said before, there are clichés all over the place which makes the story so predictable that it's hard to be excited for what's coming next as it feels more like a confirmation of what you were waiting for. The dialogue is terrible and it proves how good Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt is as actors to be able to deliver them with at least some credibility. Too bad both the script and the editing kills any subtlety they are delivering and instead wants the audience to know exactly how "smart" it is.

This leaves a two star rating, one for Gosling and one for Blunt. The best part of the movie is the end credits where you get to see how the stunts were made.

Waste of time, talent and money. Singularly setback making movies in Australia by 20 years. The actual movie has me wishing I was watching the B grade movie that is the backdrop.

It's ironic that this dross attracted the acting cred it did. I can only surmise it was made in summer in the southern hemisphere. I assume Ms. Blunt and Mr. Gosling availed themselves if the opportunity to spend a few months away from their northern climes on a sort of humans holiday. I'm pretty sure they wouldn't be including this in any resume.

David Leitch, what in earth were you thinking getting involved with this Golden Turkey worthy junk?

Out of respect for the magnificent & life changing art form that is - film...&.the admiration for the always memorable & super talented actors -Ryan Gosling & Emily Blunt, & for the recognition of film stunt people & all they achieve at great risk.....I sat thru this ....but sadly this film had none if these qualities as the script was so dire, & it was so cheesy it was cringeworthy. Awful really. I think this film is love it or loathe it. It came across as a B movie but of course it is not. It really could not find it's ground ...a total mish- mash.

Someone give these two fantastic actors some worthy stuff.

I'm halfway through the movie right now, and I want to leave. I remember when I saw the preview, I thought it would be very entertaining. It's not.

I thought it would be non-stop action, but it's boring and dumb. And the shame of it is Ryan Gosling is a wonderful actor. What a waste of his talent.

I'm probably being very rude by providing my review now, but then again, there's not many people in the theater. Hannah Wigginton(?) is terrible in her role.

Also, Gosling's character is a stunt man, not a fighter, yet somehow he knows how to fight. I'm advising you to save your money and when you see it on streaming, you'll thank yourself and me for saving you money.

OMG! This film gets a 7.1 rating here? REALLY? It's quite simply horrible.

First of all there is no real plot. And the plot that kicks in is the thinnest you'll ever see adn takes 40 minutes to get to!!!! The rest of the movie is Gossling pretending to be a stuntman for the star of the movie, while his real stunt man does all the stunts.

I cannot over-emphasize how totally bored I was. They couldnt even get the accents right. The movie is done on Australia but everyone has British accents.

I am totally confounded by the high rating unless the watchers hadnt seen the unicorn yet. No other explanation.

Neither my wife nor I had the stomach to endure this horrible, terrible, insipid, horribly written movie. We turned it off after about the first hour when we saw it go from bad to beyond awful.

Who gave the green light to this?

I've seen a lot of terrible films, but this one may be among the worst ever made on a Hollywood budget with bankable stars, ever.

Every thing about this movie was awful. The script, the premise, the acting, the whole enchilada.

I did not watch the TV series, although I'm old enough to have done so, but this movie should nebver have seen the light of day.

I wish I could erase it from my memory but I just can't quite do so.

If this had been the maiden effort for Gosling and Blunt, they would be working at Strabucks now, instead of pulling in millions/film.

Anyone defending this film is either a troll of someone with serious cognitiev issues.

It's truly bad with no redeeming qualities.

We regret not having left after the first half hour.

The cinema was almost empty for the showing.

There's next to nothing of a plot or story to hold your interest. With the film receiving ratings over 7.5 on average, it makes me wonder whether the ratings are manipulated. I regret not delving deeper into the available films before choosing this and deciding to pay for tickets to watch it. Don't waste your time.

More characters are required so I'll add an in interesting fact: Honey never spoils. Archaeologists have found pots of honey in ancient Egyptian tombs that are over 3,000 years old and still perfectly edible.

I went to see this movie with a group I could not leave alone in a theater, so I had to sit through it. I was keeping my eyes closed for most of the latter part, because it was so painful to watch.

• The dialogue is terrible. Most of the lines don't make a point and actors repeat the same thing for 2-3 times. I would have covered my ears if it was possible.

• The plot is not interesting. Movie tries to make a point that stunt actors dont get enough credit. The director is a former stunt actor, and he should have stayed as one, because this film is actually embarassing to all stunt actors.

• People responsible for this should not make movies. Movies are supposed to be entertaining. I still dont understand how Gosling and Blunt agreed to act in this. I will have to check other reviews if they are bought from India, because no way this film should have a 7/10 rating .

This is by far one of the worst movies that I have ever seen and that says a lot since I watch tons of movies. I expected so much more from this movie with the heavy hitters in this movie. I really wanted to love it with Aaron Taylor Johnson but even with him in it, I just couldn't stand Emily Blunt's character and her annoying character. The first 20 minutes is stupid. The most ridiculous set up and seriously not funny at all out of any movie that was supposed to be a comedy that I have ever seen. The relationship between Ryan and Emily's character's was just too forced and not organic. This was not for me and was not worth watching. I do not recommend.

THE FALL GUY is another example of Hollywood's greedy attempt to cash in on nostalgic IPs, recycling a 1980s TV series carelessly and stupidly. What could have been a sharp satire of the entertainment industry devolves into an mess of clichés, uninspired performances, and an anorexic plot.

The movie presents itself as a romantic comedy-action hybrid but falters on both fronts. The script, penned by Drew Pearce (HOTEL ARTEMIS), seems to have been written only as a way to connect the stunts the director wanted to do.

After 45 minutes of juvenile flirting with Not Jodi Banks (Eliza Dushku), what there is of the plot finally kicks in. Stuntman Colt Seavers (Ryan Reynolds) suffers an accident on set and retreats from the industry as a plot contrivance. A year and a half later, he's coaxed back into action to help find a missing movie star. That's about the extent of it. There's no intrigue, no stakes, just a series of increasingly ridiculous set-pieces.

Meanwhile, the romantic angle goes underdeveloped. The chemistry between the leads is flat, largely because the characters have little to no emotional depth. Ryan plays himself, albeit with a new, squarer chin and less pinched nose.

The supporting cast isn't much better. Aaron Taylor-Johnson plays Tom Cruise in a ham-fisted performance that reminds you how C-Suite likes to push actors at you to try to make them stars. See: Sam Worthington. Meanwhile, Hannah Waddingham, usually a scene-stealer, is reduced to playing a one-dimensional villain.

The film's lack of imagination here is especially maddening. Because if you're going to do a reboot, pick something that had a great premise but was not done well before. And let's face it, the '80s FALL GUY was immensely forgettable, except for its two stars, both of which belonged to Heather Thomas.

In the end, THE FALL GUY is not the love letter to filmmaking it seems to think it is. It's an uninspired cash grab, yet another example of Hollywood's cynical reliance on pandering to the lowest common denominator. The film might as well have been a focus group's wet dream, filled with moments designed to elicit a response from an audience too numbed by mediocrity to demand anything more. There's no effort to break new ground, only to deliver a product that checks all the boxes in the most uninspired way possible.

I love Emily Blunt. Since appearing in The Devil wears Prada Blunt she has been one of my absolute favourites, so picking a movie for a relaxing evening didn't seem hard when I saw that her latest movie was added to the selection on Sky Showtime. On top of that it also had Gosling (always delivering) and Hannah Waddingham that shone bright in Ted Lasso. But after watching The Fall Guy it is completely unfathomable how on earth those three were convinced to take part in such a truckload of drivel. It was a total mess. A true b-movie with horrific acting and an endless line of one pointless actionscene after another and none of them ever seemed to end. They just went on and on and on... It was total overkill!!!! I write very few reviews here on IMDB, but seeing this movie kind of forced my hands. It is paramount for me to warn you about The Fall Guy. The message is clear: Avoid at any cost.

Considering this is supposed to be broadly funny, it's remarkable that I didn't so much as smirk weakly ONCE in the entire terrible film. There are more laughs in Schindler's List. Anybody over the age of nine should not be entertained by shiny noisy cars doing doughnuts, or slow motion petrol explosions. Yet, staggeringly, a group of adults decided to make a whole film based entirely on them. "But it's a RomCom!" someone might argue, but if anybody can find a single remotely witty or amusing moment amid this dross then I feel genuinely sorry for them. If you like this film, save yourself the rental on other similar slices of rubbish and go and watch F1 crash compilations on Youtube while removing one of your molars with a spoon.

What a waste of a solid cast on a poorly written, badly paced, boringly directed film.

It has all the charm of a Netflix original, in the same vein as The Grey Man, Red Notice or Heart of Stone.

Seeing all the positive reviews and people raving about all the practical stunt work, I thought maybe this would be a case of bad trailer good film like the first Kingsmen movie.

It wasn't.

The stunts are bland and while they may in part be practical, they are all augmented with so much cgi that it still looks and feels fake and that doesnt make it feel exciting in the slightest.

Gosling is sleepwalking through this film, its just a boring, bland movie with nothing to say and nothing to entertain anybody who has watched action and adventure movies made before 2000.

You always know you're in trouble when even the movie trailer is lame and this hapless, pointless big-screen reboot of the enduring 80s tv show (starring Lee Majors) is easily one of the worst tv-to-movie incarnations i've seen. It rates alongside fellow cinematic cathode ray stinkers such as Sgt Bilko, Baywatch, Charlie's Angels, CHiPs and The Dukes of Hazzard as must-avoid viewing.

The usually decent Ryan Gosling mails it in for the money (like he did in Barbie) as stunt guy 'Colt Severs' while lovely Emily Blunt fails to deliver as his air-headed 'film director' love interest. Indeed the lack of chemistry and laughs between the two is an epic fail.

The actual plot is pointless so not even worth discussing while the charm, fun and part-time bounty hunter angle of the original show is jettisoned in preference for stunts (duh), cheesy dialogue, comedy that doesn't work and a cringey love-hate scenario throughout between the two leads.

No pleasant surprises on show here then - I expected it to be cr @p and it was. Even the music sucks. Do yourself a favour and swerve this absolute braindead rubbish and go watch the old TV show on DVD, Blu-Ray or whatever instead... Should've called it The FAIL Guy, it would've been funnier.

Great idea but just turned into your typical narcist neurotic female man hating thing for no reason, emily blunt was so boring and they both seemed all monotonous with no real emotion in any line they delivered.

It seems film goers now have such a low IQ that anything passes as great these days. Even the jokes weren't funny as the delivery was so flat and stale.

Really glad that i didnt waste the money going to see this in the cinema as it was definitely not worth the price of admission.

Ryan Gosling is great, Blunt is hot but monotonous, and thats about it for the entire film really, lost interest when the man hating started and didnt really get it back either.

Sick of all these films where people get hit 30 times and have no marks on their face.

Storyline and plot is crap...complete disappointment...