Director of Atomic (2017), Deadpool 2 (2018), Fast and Furious: Hobbs and Shaw (2019) and Bullet train (2022) builds a fun, intense and romantic film based on the series of the same name starring Lee Majors that had five seasons and 113 episodes between 1981 and 1986.
Profession danger (The Fall Guy, United States/2024). Director: David Leitch. Cast: Ryan Gosling, Emily Blunt, Winston Duke, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Hannah Waddingham and Stephanie Hsu. Screenplay: Drew Pearce, based on the television series of the same name created by Glen A. Larson. Photography: Jonathan Sela. Edition: Elísabet Ronaldsdóttir. Music: Dominic Lewis. Distributor: UIP (Universal). Duration: 126 minutes. Suitable for people over 13 years old.
Colt Seavers (Ryan Gosling) is one of Hollywood’s most sought-after stunt doubles and his resemblance to Aaron Taylor-Johnson’s Tom Ryder makes him indispensable to replace him on board vehicles that overturn or in scenes in which he they set fire Colt always comes out on top until one day, when he is thrown into the void with harnesses, the shot ends with him breaking his back. Accident or conspiracy? The truth is that it takes our intrepid protagonist 18 months to recover, a period in which he practically disappears from the world and stops communicating with Jody Moreno (Emily Blunt), a camerawoman with whom he evidently had a great affinity.
After that introductory sequence, we meet again with Colt working without much enthusiasm as a parking valet at a restaurant until he receives a call from the powerful producer Gail Meyer (Hannah Waddingham, revelation of the series Ted Lasso) to return to the film sets for a sci-fi blockbuster called metalstorma mix of Dune with Mad Max. He has no interest in returning, but she tells him that the director of the project is none other than Jody Moreno in her first experience as a director. And then, of course, he gets on the first available flight.
The film combines quite fluidly and naturally elements typical of romantic comedy, an accumulation of misadventures and entanglements, cinema within cinema, suspense, tension and, of course, spectacular action scenes in which the work of those stuntmen who stand out stands out. They fulfill the dangerous profession to which the premiere title in Latin America alludes without taking the merits that they really deserve and are so little recognized.
Nobody expects a sophisticated film, but even in the simplicity, superficiality and innocence of many of the conflicts, challenges and traps that Colt goes through, there is no small amount of audacity, a welcome self-confidence and an undoubted expertise to make the vertigo and adrenaline (which there are and in abundant doses) do not conspire against the chemistry of the Gosling-Blunt duo or against an enjoyment that goes beyond being dazzled by the very good set pieces.
In these times of tanks without soul and without wave, Profession danger It emerges as a nice, noble and entertaining production, with enough visual, narrative and acting attractions to justify viewing it in a movie theater without waiting for its arrival on home streaming, where its effect on the viewer will be much less.
P.S.: Do not leave the room during the final credits because there is a behind-the-scenes story that, of course, exalts the work of the film’s stunt doubles and includes several surprises.
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