REVIEW: THE FALL GUY IS AN UNEXPECTEDLY THRILLING WATCH FOR A ROM-COM

Barbie star Ryan Gosling and Oppenheimer star Emily Blunt - together they really are Barbenheimer on the big screen - and now they're headlining their own movie, The Fall Guy.

The oft and deservedly maligned romantic comedy lowest-common-denominator snooze fests that frequent the multiplex have chewed away at my very soul over the decades.

So when an actual romantic comedy is indeed romantic and comedic, and in this case so action-packed it could have been a Mission Impossible movie?

Well, consider me shook.

In The Fall Guy, the Gos and the Blunt have more chemistry than a meth lab and together they sizzle and giggle up the big screen from go to woah.

Gosling plays a world-class stuntman, while Blunt plays as the film director with the power to keep calling "action!"

Proceedings ramp up a notch when the star of the show Tom Ryder (played by Aaron Taylor Johnson) mysteriously goes missing off set.

And of course, his loyal stuntman Colt Seavers (Gosling) must once again, save the day. But not without putting his body on the line, for real.

Honestly, I'm as shocked as you are by the fact I loved every single moment of this movie within a movie, action within a romance, comedy within the comedy homage to the magic of making movies and the movie makers who make them.

It was so entirely joyous, missing not one single beat. No, I'm not drunk.

Five stars - for real.

2024-04-20T07:15:25Z dg43tfdfdgfd