- The Fall Guy
2024 – Action Comedy – 2h 6m – 2,5 in scale 1-5
Director: David Leitch, Interpetations: Ryan Gosling, Emily Blunt, Aaron Taylor Johnson, etc.
Ryan Gosling, keeping the role of the title hero, will find himself at the heart of an unimaginable conspiracy in Australia, where he has been called to work as a replacement for the difficult scenes of an arrogant star (Aaron Taylor Johnson). Although the actual film on film is something that literally blows your mind – you could say that Indiana Jones falls in love with an alien – this is ultimately interesting because it reminds us exactly what products, today, Hollywood wastes millions of dollars on the medium called cinema. The film within the film is the vision of a young director (Emily Blunt), which alone is the reason for the stuntman to decide to work on the film, after an accident he had decided to give up.
As an adventure, the story of “The Stuntman” is relatively funny, in its unimaginable extravagance, but if it is really worth it for anything, it is that it takes the viewer behind the scenes of the sets of the motion pictures, and there the director David Leach, in a word, it demystifies… everything. Arrogance and arrogance of the stars, madness of the producers who think they can do everything, vanity at the zenith and the stuntmen in the middle of it all making their living doing the dirty work without anyone knowing them except their pitch. At the same time, Leach (who has been through similar films such as a “Fast and furious” but “Atomic Blonde”) gives a cinephile color to his story with various retro references to other films • from “A night in Notting Hill” to “Love without tomorrow” and from the TV series “Miami Vice” to “Agapi es” The result is a fun and somewhat “skewed” adventure that certainly doesn’t have the displacement (and weight) of a Quentin Tarantino Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, but at least it’s enjoyable to watch.
