The Fall Guy
directed by David Leitch
from Universal Pictures
2024
This cute action-comedy about an interrupted film crew romance, combined with a murder mystery and behind-the-scenes-making-of-a-(fictional)-space-opera, is a tribute to professional stunt performers doing real, traditional (non-CGI) stunts.
The stars are attractive, the comic timing is good (a song reaches a crescendo and there is… not a matching peak in the story!), the coming-back-from-career-ending-injury story is so American, the villains are appropriately villainous, and THERE IS A VIOLENT ACTION SCENE SET TO A PHIL COLLINS SONG (a song I can now tolerate playing in my head because the action was well performed). The credits show actual-making-of scenes to ensure you appreciate the stuntfolk.
[Sound of me patting myself on the back for NOT using the word paean in this entry, and also having belated revelations about why people understand my legal writing.]
I was entertained.