The Fall Guy: A lackluster action-comedy with little substance

By Dwight Brown Film Critic for DwightBrownInk.com and NNPA News Wire (**)& Telling someone “You have nothing between your ears,” isn’t a compliment. Telling a filmmaker and screenwriter “You have nothing between the action scenes,” also isn’t a compliment. Read on… The trailers for The Fall Guy look exciting and certainly the premise has great potential. The stuntman Cole Seavers (Ryan Gosling, Barbie) is on hiatus after a precarious fall stunt goes awry and his body and ego are injured. He’s called back into duty by the conniving producer Gail Meyer (Hannah Waddingham, Ted Lasso), whose leading man, Hollywood superstar and egomaniac Tom Ryder (Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Bullet Train), has gone missing from her new movie set.  Ryan Gosling in “The Fall Guy.” Credit: NNPA Newswire Meyer tempts Cole back into the business by saying he’s been requested by the film’s first-time director Jody Moreno (Emily Blunt, Oppenheimer), who happens to be Cole’s ex-lover. The naïve stuntman is being deceived. Before the filming of the vastly bloated sci-fi film Metalstorm is completed, his life will be in more jeopardy than any glorified stand-in should ever endure. Nice setup.& The potential for an awe-inspiring action/comedy/drama is immense. Movie fans who like to...