The Fall Guy (2024) | Film Review

(First viewing via VOD) - Colt Seavers is a stuntman on big budget Hollywood productions. Doubling for Hollywood A-lister, Tom Ryder, and endlessly flirting with camera woman, Jody Moreno, Colt really has it all: His dream job, and his dream girl. But after a horrible on set accident breaks his back and his spirit, he walks away from it all resigning himself to a life of car parking at a nice family owned restaurant. That is until he gets a call asking him to return to action to save his dream girl’s directorial debut.

David Leitch’s The Fall Guy is an action packed amusement park ride of a film. It’s also a love letter to Hollywood stunt people who make the action we love to watch possible. His film blends the world of cinematic action, and real life action flawlessly, with many of the stunts happening as the story plays out being more incredible than those within the fictional movie within the movie, Metalstorm. Leitch goes out of his way within The Fall Guy to call out Hollywood for its lack of recognition toward stunt workers, and I got to say, he makes a great case.