Not recommended. I don’t know why I have to explain this, but here’s how to make an action/adventure romantic comedy (e.g., the first two Indiana Jones pictures). Hot leading actors with chemistry and popularity. Don’t get in their way with complicated plots, childish fourth-wall cuteness, Taylor Swift jokes, a lousy supporting cast and . . . karaoke. To its dismal failure, The Fall Guy only follows the first rule. Can you believe this is just the first pairing of Ryan Gosling (Barbie) and Emily Blunt (Oppenheimer)? Hopefully, they will find a script worthy of their thermodynamics. This one is packed with a completely injudicious number of car crashes, explosions, defenestrations, and testicular dog bites, which the stunt man/director, (David Leitch, Atomic Blonde), seems to believe tribute the importance of his former craft. But good gags need a good movie. In Atomic Blonde, the punches served the characters; here, it’s the other way round.
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