When my wife and I watched "The Fall Guy" last night, we expected a low-budget RKO Radio comedy from 1930. We like such things, and this movie fared well on that score. Everything about it is funny or so ridiculous that it is funny. The premise is delightfully absurd, and the acting seemed intentionally comedic.
Was this also supposed to be a Crime-Drama? I suppose that it possible, but as another commenter observed, that part of it does not work well in 2008. It's just funny. A bizarre criminal mastermind pretending also, for some reason, to be a different criminal mastermind pays an unemployable sap to mind a suitcase for a weekend. The sap and his wife live also with the wife's sister and brother, with the brother being an unemployable eccentric learning (badly) to lay the saxophone. (Ned Sparks steals the scene for the entire film in the role of the sax playing in-law.) I can say no more, as it would be giving away the ending of this short (65 min.) film, but the film is a comedy, not a dark comedy, and it is, again, absurd.
If you love these old movies, by all means watch it. It's a amusing and should be worth an hour of your time.
Was this also supposed to be a Crime-Drama? I suppose that it possible, but as another commenter observed, that part of it does not work well in 2008. It's just funny. A bizarre criminal mastermind pretending also, for some reason, to be a different criminal mastermind pays an unemployable sap to mind a suitcase for a weekend. The sap and his wife live also with the wife's sister and brother, with the brother being an unemployable eccentric learning (badly) to lay the saxophone. (Ned Sparks steals the scene for the entire film in the role of the sax playing in-law.) I can say no more, as it would be giving away the ending of this short (65 min.) film, but the film is a comedy, not a dark comedy, and it is, again, absurd.
If you love these old movies, by all means watch it. It's a amusing and should be worth an hour of your time.