Starring: Ryan Gosling, Emily Blunt, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Winston Duke, Hannah Waddingham, Stephanie Hsu
OUR RATING: ★★★☆☆
Story: Action thriller comedy directed by David Leitch and written by Drew Pearce, inspired by the 1980s television series of the same name. The Fall Guy (2024) centers on ex-stuntman Colt Seavers (Ryan Gosling) returns to action when the star of a big-budget movie, directed by his ex Jody Moreno (Emily Blunt), goes missing. Producer Gail (Hannah Waddingham) tries to keep the disappearance of Tom Ryder (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) under wraps. As Colt performs daring stunts and attempts to win back Jody, he gets entangled in a criminal plot more perilous than any stunt he’s ever done.
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Best The Fall Guy Quotes
Colt Seavers: I don’t know why I’m talking so much anyway. I’m not the hero of this story. I’m just the stunt guy.
Colt Seavers: I don’t want to overromanticize it or anything, but I think what Jody and I got’s the kind of thing you can only really find in the movies.
Jody Moreno: Well, you know, drinking margaritas is all about making bad decisions.
Dan Tucker: It’s time for you to start rolling cars again instead of parking them.
Dan Tucker: “It’s not about how hard of a hit you can give. It’s about how many times you can get hit and keep moving forward.”
Colt Seavers: That’s messed up. You can’t quote Rocky on me like that.
Colt Seavers: What’s that saying, “Pride comes before the fall”? Well, they don’t mention that it sticks around afterwards too.
Darla: What if one of the characters in the film acknowledges in the film that we’re having a problem with the third act?
Dan Tucker: “This is one of those times, whether it’s an inch or a mile, a win is a win.”
Colt Seavers: That’s easy. Fast and the Furious.
Colt Seavers: [to Jody] But you look good in everything. You look good in nothing. Whatever. No, I don’t mean it like that. But you do look good in nothing.
Jody Moreno: But let me be clear, eventually, Aliena did move on. Alright? And she started doing Pilates. Got herself a banging revenge body, and then she started dating other humans. One after another. And she had so many mind-blowing, far superior experiences, you wouldn’t even believe it. Right, girls? You know what I mean? Yeah, it was like a sushi train.
Colt Seavers: Have you ever been in one of those situations where you want to say something and it’s so important that you can’t mess it up? So, you think long and hard about it, and then you realize, you’ve already messed it up? Because you’ve thought too long and too hard about it?
Gail Meyer: I think you deserve a second chance. It’s like the message in all my movies. What’s the message in all my movies?
Colt Seavers: Nihilism’s a viable worldview?
Gail Meyer: No, that’s just the entertainment. That’s like the sexy bacon.
Gail Meyer: You got to wrap the message in some sexy bacon. I mean, all those movies, people fall down. They’re rolling in their own s**t. They don’t think they can cope, but they can. They get back up.
Colt Seavers: Okay, let me get this straight. Nihilism is the sexy bacon? The audience are dogs? And when you fall down, you get back up.
Gail Meyer: You’re a stunt man, for God’s sake. No one is going to notice whether you’re here or not. No offense.
Colt Seavers: I mean, some taken.
Gail Meyer: Save Jody’s movie, and maybe you get the love of your life back.
Colt Seavers: Did you just turn Jody into the sexy bacon?
Gail Meyer: She’s been the sexy bacon all along.
Jody Moreno: The problem with forcing something is you get nowhere.
Jody Moreno: Moral of the story is you should just be you.
Jody Moreno: If you’re going to stay here, we need to keep it like super profesh.
Colt Seavers: “Professional” is my middle name.
Jody Moreno: I thought your middle name was “Danger”.
Colt Seavers: That’s a stage name. Colt Profesh Seavers.
Iggy Starr: You’re never going to get in looking like a povo.
Colt Seavers: What’s a povo?
Iggy Starr: A poor person like you.
Iggy Starr: Just act like Tom. You’re his stunt double. You know how to do that, don’t you?
Colt Seavers: Yeah. I’ll just act like I own everything and everyone, and there’s no repercussions for my actions.
Doone: See, movies are always trying to make things real. But it’s not real. It’s a movie. It’s not meant to be real. That’s why I like cartoons. See, because cartoons don’t pretend to be real. That’s what I like about them.
Colt Seavers: Well, I’m just a boy in a neon suit, standing in front of a girl, reminding her that Notting Hill is her favorite movie, and she watches Love Actually every year at Christmas.
Jody Moreno: Well, you know, I watched it again this year, and I didn’t love it, actually.
Jody Moreno: Yeah, it’s a really sad day for Notting Hi as well. That “happily ever after” stuff, unsubscribe me.
Colt Seavers: That’s all we want. A little hope.
Colt Seavers: I went to Ryder’s apartment, just like you told me. That’s where Iggy with the sword gave me the neon suit, and they sent me to the man with the leopard print head. He goes by the name of Doone. It was Doone’s goons who dirtied my Shirley, and not in a fun way, Gail. I think they were trying to kill me, Gail!
Colt Seavers: I want to report a crime. An ice crime.
Jody Moreno: I don’t need cuts. I don’t need gimmicks. I don’t need anything. I just need you. To finish this movie. You know, maybe even make it a great movie.
Gail Meyer: I love listening to people murder my favorite songs.
Dan Tucker: If this was The Fugitive, and you were Harrison Ford, the bad guys would be closing in.
Dan Tucker: You stay alive. Stay alive. No matter how long it takes. No matter how far, I will find you!
Colt Seavers: Last of the Mohicans.
Colt Seavers: [after he gets punched] I never forget a fist.
Jody Moreno: [referring to Colt] This is a man who spent twenty-three minutes ushering a cockroach out of my room once. And I was like, “Just stomp on it,” and he was like, “No, let it live.”
Colt Seavers: I think we have different ideas of what simple is.
Colt Seavers: It’s plot heavy. We’re getting tangled in exposition.
Colt Seavers: Tom, you need carbs! Your brain runs on glucose! For simple cognitive functions. You need them.
Colt Seavers: [to Jody] I just felt like a huge failure. And I realized that, you know, I’m not invincible. Huge shocker. And I thought maybe I wasn’t so special, or something. So I just figured that the thumbs-down version of me wasn’t what you got into it for. So I disappeared. But, you know, I didn’t just disappear on you. I just disappeared on myself too.
Colt Seavers: [to Jody] Honestly, it all hurts. Getting hit by a car hurts. Getting thrown out of a window hurts. Getting set on fire really hurts. But none of it ever hurt as much as not being with you.
Colt Seavers: Is that from a movie or did I just make that up?
Colt Seavers: That’s the movie you spent your whole life trying to make. Who knows? You might inspire a whole generation of little Jodys to pick up cameras and make their own movies. You’re just, you’re special. And all of us get to be a part of something special because it comes from you. I obviously failed at getting us our happy ending. But I’ll be damned if I’m going to let Space Cowboy and Aliena not have theirs.
Jody Moreno: You fall down, you get right back up.
Colt Seavers: I thought it’d be fitting. Me and you, Tom Ryder, one last stunt. You know, like Thelma and Louise.
Tom Ryder: Thelma and Louise?
Colt Seavers: Yeah.
Tom Ryder: They die at the end.
Colt Seavers: Exactly!
Colt Seavers: [as they’re filming the stunt] I’m just wondering, you know, after this movie, and if I don’t go to prison, and, you know, you’re not busy, maybe we could go to a beach somewhere. Wear a couple of swimming costumes.
Jody Moreno: Just drink a spicy margarita or something.
Colt Seavers: Yeah. Yeah. Make some bad decisions.
Narrator: From visionary director Jody Moreno and Universal Pictures, comes a cosmic love story of epic proportion. Starring MTV Best Kiss award nominee Jason Momoa.
Colt Seavers: Metalstorm was a huge hit. Aliena and Space Cowboy finally got the happy ending. As for Jody and I, we got something even better. We got a new beginning. Filled with spicy margaritas and bad decisions. And look, I don’t want to over-romanticize it or anything, but I think what Jody and I got, it’s even better than what you find in the movies.
Gail Meyer: You know who I am, right? I mean, I can make you a massive star, you handsome beast!
The Fall Guy: And you, you have the right to remain silent. So shut the hell up.