“The Fall Guy” Is Gravity-Defying Fun, in Every Sense

On a shoot with Tom, Colt embarks on a romance with a camera operator, Jody Moreno (Emily Blunt). After a jump from high up in a building’s atrium goes badly wrong, a long recovery ensues during which he turns his back on the business, and on Jody. Eighteen months later, he gets a call from Tom’s producer, Gail Meyer (Hannah Waddingham). She offers him a job on a new film directed by Jody, who is finally getting her big break. Yet, after arriving at the shoot, in Australia, Colt finds Jody far from welcoming, embittered by what she took as his rejection of her. He also gets a secret assignment from Gail: Tom has disappeared, and she needs Colt to locate him, and quickly. If the studio discovers its star is missing, it will pull the plug on the movie, jeopardizing Jody’s directorial career. Colt soon comes across a corpse and learns that he’s the prime suspect in a murder case. So he strives to find Tom for Jody’s sake, and to catch the actual killers for his own sake—and, of course, in the process, to regain Jody’s trust and love.