The Fall Guy (movie 2024) Oops, there goes gravity

Based on an old TV show I've never heard off, The Fall Guy starts off with distractingly cheesy narration. The kind that makes you think, 'What is this nonsense?"
But then you realize that 's the movie's thing - cheese nonsense.
In fact, they lean into it with such enthusiasm that it becomes its own charm.

Naturally, the main charming here falls (pun alert) to Gosling, who is more than well equipped for the job. The stuntman he plays, Colt Seavers, gets injured in the opening scene, and quits. But he returns to a movie set eighteen months later, believing that his ex, now a director, Jody Moreno (Emily Blunt) has personally requested him. 
Sparks of all kinds fly, but Colt soon finds himself navigating in a deadly conspiracy that involves the popular leading man he stundoubles for.

Curious aside: Colt Seavers is the name of the original TV show stuntman. And his girlfriend's original name is Jody Banks. Was renaming her Moreno for a movie some kind of a pathetic stab at multicultural inclusivity? Because Emily Blunt, much like the original actress, is a blatantly Caucasian blue-eyed blonde, so that's a fail at best. Or just why?

Directed by a former stuntman, the movie looks and acts like it. The action here is next-level bombastic and funny to boot. And don't forget, you're watching stuntmen standing in for a stars who plays a stuntman standing in for a star. That's pretty amusing in and off itself.

There's also a lot of perfectly chiseled stomach muscles. A LOT.

This is a very silly movie. Intentionally so. Just how silly? Well, Colt theme song is "I Was Made For Loving You." That silly. If you go with it, it'll amuse you in a very mainstream sort of way. The audiences didn't seem to realize that, hence the movie was a box office disappointment. But it is a very entertaining way to kill/blow up/set on fire/car crash 120 minutes or so from the comfort of your own couch.