Stuntman Colt Seavers is enjoying a career as stunt double for box office star Tom Ryder, as well as a promising romance with camerawoman Jody when a dreadful accident takes him out of the game. 18 months later, he is persuaded to return as Jody directs her first feature film.
Let me start by saying Ryan Gosling is Colt and Emily Blunt is Jody and neither of them is a reason for me to get out of my chair and go to the cinema, notwithstanding that both of them have made films in which they have been rather good. I'm just not a fan of either of them.
Yet there I was, watching a film which was rather inaccurately labelled a comedy romance.
This is based on an 80s TV series in which stuntman Colt did bounty hunting in his spare time, the title being basically no more than a loose pun on what stuntmen do. Here, that title is nicely used as one of the central elements of the plot, which was more action thriller than comedy romance. I quite enjoyed the story and the stunts. Gosling did some acting here and there, and Emily Blunt did some Emily Blunting all the way through.
For what it was, it was an entertaining couple of hours.
Let me start by saying Ryan Gosling is Colt and Emily Blunt is Jody and neither of them is a reason for me to get out of my chair and go to the cinema, notwithstanding that both of them have made films in which they have been rather good. I'm just not a fan of either of them.
Yet there I was, watching a film which was rather inaccurately labelled a comedy romance.
This is based on an 80s TV series in which stuntman Colt did bounty hunting in his spare time, the title being basically no more than a loose pun on what stuntmen do. Here, that title is nicely used as one of the central elements of the plot, which was more action thriller than comedy romance. I quite enjoyed the story and the stunts. Gosling did some acting here and there, and Emily Blunt did some Emily Blunting all the way through.
For what it was, it was an entertaining couple of hours.
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