Here's my gripe with this movie: it's about 40 minutes too long, the pacing is all over the place and it has no idea what kind of movie it wants to be. It wasn't particularly funny, I chuckled about 4 times. It didn't really work as an action movie, because the bulk of the action takes place in the final 20 or so minutes, and the couple of fights and chases which come earlier are separated by long dull scenes of dialog. Sooooooooo much bland dialog. A chase scene which repeatedly cuts to people talking... and not in a funny or meaningful way. A scene where I though "They're talking about split screen, and this is shown to us in split screen, that's pretty neat"... but the scene kept on going and going without doing anything for the plot. I found myself looking at my watch and thinking "We're 30 minutes in, and virtually nothing has happened yet". That turned into an hour. Then 1 hour and 30. OK, now they're finally ramping up things. Yeah.
Blunt's is utterly wasted in this film. She could have been replaced by a faceless voice a'la "Bullet Train" and it would have made very little difference. Palmer was decent (didn't even recognize her right away), but she had only like 5 minutes of screen time. Taylor-Johnson did an OK job as the arrogant movie star whom Gosling's character doubles, but he was missing for half of the movie, so didn't really make up for the blandness of pretty much everyone else. And that includes Gosling. There were several well placed cameos, but those were too short to elevate the movie in any significant way.
As they're both adaptations of 80's TV shows where comedy mixes with action, then it's worth comparing "The Fall Guy" to 2010's "The A-Team". Yes, that movie is not well regarded, but frankly speaking it was way more entertaining than what I watched in the cinema today. The dialog was way tighter and served a purpose, the romantic interest wasn't just a pretty face, it fully embraced it's ridiculous premise and actually had charismatic main characters. All things which "Fall Guy" misses.
TL;DR: save your money and wait until the movie reaches streaming services. Then you can watch it while doing chores etc, and have the option to zone out during the many many many boring bits.
Blunt's is utterly wasted in this film. She could have been replaced by a faceless voice a'la "Bullet Train" and it would have made very little difference. Palmer was decent (didn't even recognize her right away), but she had only like 5 minutes of screen time. Taylor-Johnson did an OK job as the arrogant movie star whom Gosling's character doubles, but he was missing for half of the movie, so didn't really make up for the blandness of pretty much everyone else. And that includes Gosling. There were several well placed cameos, but those were too short to elevate the movie in any significant way.
As they're both adaptations of 80's TV shows where comedy mixes with action, then it's worth comparing "The Fall Guy" to 2010's "The A-Team". Yes, that movie is not well regarded, but frankly speaking it was way more entertaining than what I watched in the cinema today. The dialog was way tighter and served a purpose, the romantic interest wasn't just a pretty face, it fully embraced it's ridiculous premise and actually had charismatic main characters. All things which "Fall Guy" misses.
TL;DR: save your money and wait until the movie reaches streaming services. Then you can watch it while doing chores etc, and have the option to zone out during the many many many boring bits.