Upon release, it earned comparisons to the modern cult classic The Nice Guys.
The Fall Guy, one of 2024’s best action movies, is now available to watch at home via NOW Cinema and Sky Cinema.
A reboot of the 1980s TV series of the same name, the action comedy sees Ryan Gosling play Colt Seavers – the long-time stuntman for the widely beloved, though secretly incredibly irritating, Hollywood star Tom Ryder (Aaron Taylor-Johnson).
Working on Ryder’s latest blockbuster, the stuntman is also part of a passionate romance with the film’s camera operator Jody Moreno (Emily Blunt).
After suffering a severe injury on set, however, Seavers leaves stunt work behind – blaming himself for the accident – and turns his back on Jody.
Cut to 18 months later and Ryder’s frequent producer (Hannah Waddingham) begs Seavers to travel to Australia to save the movie his ex is now making her directorial debut with – something that she has long dreamed about.
It turns out Ryder has gone missing and given how intimately his former stuntman knows him, Seavers is tasked with locating the actor.
Seeing this as a way to reconnect with Moreno, Seavers accepts the mission.
The Fall Guy earned rave reviews upon release, including from us here at JOE.
We praised the movie for its funny meta screenplay, which lovingly pays tribute to stuntmen, as well for the romantic chemistry between stars Blunt and Gosling.
You can read a sample of JOE’s review below:
“As movie premises go, The Fall Guy’s is admittedly brilliant. For one thing, it’s extremely fun and refreshing to centre an action comedy around a stuntman so that when the crazy fight sequences come – you actually believe that the hero could fend for himself against a dozen guys or jump from buildings and moving vehicles without dying.
“It helps too that the film is helmed by veteran stunt performer and coordinator turned director David Leitch (Atomic Blonde, Bullet Train) who brings a personal connection to the material, while also keeping the inventively staged action coming frequent and quick.”
On top of this, we also called it “The Nice Guys sequel we’ll probably never get” due to its many similarities to Gosling’s earlier beloved action comedy.
This is because The Fall Guy also features the actor in silly mode as an unconventional, bumbling detective trying to work out a mystery with ties to the film industry.
Though we still hope that someday we will get a proper Nice Guys 2 as well, The Fall Guy is available to watch in the UK and Ireland on NOW Cinema and Sky Cinema.
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