The Fall Guy (2024)
Directed by David Leitch
Fresh off an almost career-ending accident, stuntman Colt Seavers has to track down a missing movie star, solve a conspiracy and try to win back the love of his life while still doing his day job.
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Stuntman Mike of Death Proof and Cliff Booth of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood are our most prominent modern glimpses into the rigors of stunt work.
David Leitch’s (Deadpool 2, Atomic Blonde) first film after Bullet Train, inspired by the 1980s TV series and written by Iron Man 3‘s Drew Pearce, shines when it lets the stuntmen and film crew take center stage – both those we meet in the movie and those that deliver the incredibly well-choreographed, action-packed feast we see on the screen.
While Leitch has made great action films, like the original “John Wick” and the underrated “Atomic Blonde,” this one is closer to his boorish “Bullet Train” from 2022.
Leitch has made solid films before ("Atomic Blonde" is an underrated minor gem), but he's also been behind projects that feel weirdly inert, like something in the process just didn't click ("Hobbs and Shaw," anyone?). But "The Fall Guy" is a project from a filmmaker who is clearly passionate about the material, and determined to make you passionate about it, too. Leitch was a stunt performer and coordinator for years before he stepped into the d…
Leitch can direct action beautifully, as he did in the Charlize Theron smash-'em-up Atomic Blonde. But he can also go too flamboyantly over-the-top, as in sloppier recent efforts like Bullet Train and Hobbs & Shaw.
Up-and-down director David Leitch — "Atomic Blonde" was electrifying, "Bullet Train" was a soul suck — is a former stuntman himself, and he uses the canvas of the 1980s TV series to bring stunts and stuntmen back to the forefront.
It would be remiss not to address that the film is from veteran stunt performer and co-ordinator David Leitch who has worked on the John Wick films and directed the likes of Atomic Blonde, Deadpool 2 and Bullet Train.
David Leitch’s (Deadpool 2, Atomic Blonde) first film after Bullet Train, inspired by the 1980s TV series and written by Iron Man 3‘s Drew Pearce, shines when it lets the stuntmen and film crew take center stage – both those we meet in the movie and those that deliver the incredibly well-choreographed, action-packed feast we see on the screen.
And the movie seems to know it's reeling and decides to make a joke out of it, rather than screenwriter Drew Pearce ("Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw") just writing a tighter script and losing the extraneous plot mess.
As well as finding a missing actor, getting immersed in action intrigue to unravel a criminal plot, saving his latest movie and doing his regular job, Seavers is on a mission to win back Moreno — but IRL stuntman-turned-filmmaker David Leitch, who also helmed Bullet Train, Atomic Blonde, Deadpool 2 and Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw, puts stunts to the fore as much as rom-com banter in the initial sneak peek.
Reteaming after Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw, screenwriter Drew Pearce and director David Leitch (a stunt professional whose blockbuster résumé gets a prologue shoutout) give Gosling and Blunt endless back-and-forth on problems they couldn’t get past.
Featuring a screenplay written by Drew Pearce, The Fall Guy is the latest action movie directed by David Leitch, himself a former stuntman (and director of Atomic Blonde, Deadpool 2, Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw, Bullet Train previously).