This movie is not a “love letter to stunt performers”

I thought the movie was terribly shot. I actually thought while watching it that the stunts kind of take a back seat in a movie about stuntmen. But that whole behind the scenes stunt montage in the credits was mind blowing. None of that stuff translated though the lens. They should have actually shot the movie that way, more like a documentary. I think it would have had a lot more impact. Movie couldn't decide what it was trying to be.

💯 agree. That Studio note ad campaign excuse is ridiculous.

WELL SAID...I AGREE...I WISH I DIDN'T...I WANTED TO LIKE THE MOVIE...I DIG THE CAST AND THE TONE THEY WERE GOING FOR...BUT IT WAS MEH....I KEPT FINDING MYSELF REWRITING BITS OR BEING LEFT UNSATISFIED BY PAYOFFS...WHEN MY MIND HAS THAT KIND OF SPACE TO WANDER IT'S NEVER GOOD FOR THE MOVIE.

Yep, it basically says stunts are shit jobs, and can be replaced like that.

Colt clearly had very low self esteem, with about zero ambition, thinking he was just a cog in the machinery of movie making, willing to stay that way.

I think it is more of a love letter to the directors, they run the machines.

I agree.

'A love letter to..' makes my fucking skin crawl when I see it in reviews. It's in the same elitist twat dictionary as 'a visual tour de force'

Agreed, the script was really bad. Gosling tries his best with it but the jokes fell flat for me a lot of the time, it was nowhere near as funny as Leitch’s last film Bullet Train or Gosling’s other comedy films The Nice Guy’s and Barbie.

Hobbs & Shaw wasn’t funny either, this writer’s style of comedy is so bland and forgettable.

No. It IS love letter to stunt performers. And they had to create romantic-screwball-comedy. Because movie need a plot.
I was shocked when they showed at the end that basically every action scene was shot on location instead of made on computer.
I feel bad that script was so boring and movie flopped. I respect that they did all those scenes with real stuntmen

Maybe love letter is an annoying phrase. But this is definitely a well thought out acknowledgment to the specialized and unrecognized profession of stuntmen everywhere. Not as good as Bullet Train, but director Leitch is a stuntman and he incorporates the stuntmen he knows to do these difficult stunts that seem like nothing to us. And then he takes an 80s TV show - only because he probably had to pitch this thing to the producers and since we are only seeing remakes, prequels and sequels and bios - it gave him traction. And the reason for this is supposedly to get the “stuntmen” category recognized by the Oscars. And yet, ironically, if there were such a category, this movie would not be nominated for it. Because when you think of stunts - I automatically, think of Ghost Protocol 135th floor, The Spy Who Loved Me ski jump, Cliffhanger, True Lies. Or the surfer in Point Break who rode that 50 ft wave in at the end and got paid very little. But the dialogue, especially the romantic banter is horrible. Not so bad as Jack and Rose in Titanic but almost. When this movie finally gets to the dead guy in the tub is there a sense of purpose - yes, so this is a mystery. Why is this guy dead? And then you find out why. All with the backdrop of the breathtaking beauty of Sydney Harbour. I don’t know about you, but I just want to see a movie that doesn’t deal with vampires, zombies, the end of the world, alternative states, prequels, sequels, or bios, and for me, families. I had a really enjoyable time watching this at the theater and everybody at the theater did too. And I laughed in this. Some parts. Didn’t you laugh at Aaron Taylor-Johnson doing Matthew McConaughey or when Gosling has a serious discussion with the cast who all looked like the Star Wars bar. It may not be the best, but it’s going in a better direction. I’d prefer seeing Ryan with Russell Crowe in that last great movie they did but I guess it wasn’t great enough.