There is absolutely no reason for this movie to be THIS bad. They didn't even have to follow a template from the 80s show!
At every turn when things could be fun, it isn't. The jokes are flat...if you can call them that. And everyone seems bored. Or not invested. The lines land flat with a thud. The whole experience feels like jumping out of a plane without a parachute. And the logic is non-existent.
For instance, the item in need is a cellphone that shows a crime. Do these braindead people understand the concept of a cloud? Why must this phone be a thing. MacGuffin as it may be, you spend a great deal of time wrapping your brain around the idiocy of everyone involved.
Okay, call it a paycheck or to keep their entertainment health insurance, this is mainly as a love letter to stunt people. A pitch to have them in the Oscars next year. Truth be told, this most likely put a nail in any push for a stuntman Oscar (which I've pitched since the late 90s).
I love the original show. It was campy, silly BUT Lee Majors just has something Ryan Gosling is missing. Yes, he has the muscles but Majors wasn't jacked. He was a working man with a half grin. Gosling plays him like a stoner loser.
Can ANYONE explain to me why he had to leave after his back accident?
Also, that comes and goes too.
There's no coherence to any of it. Emily Blunt looks lost. She could've easily been a character who wants to make arthouse flicks but is stuck making dumb action movies. Get the character of Chloe Zhao. She failed in a big actioner after "Nomadland." As it is, she doesn't have the body type nor the disposition of a camera operator turned director. I laugh even typing this.
The meta jokes are really stale.
I truly wanted to love this movie. It is an absolute disaster of a movie.
At every turn when things could be fun, it isn't. The jokes are flat...if you can call them that. And everyone seems bored. Or not invested. The lines land flat with a thud. The whole experience feels like jumping out of a plane without a parachute. And the logic is non-existent.
For instance, the item in need is a cellphone that shows a crime. Do these braindead people understand the concept of a cloud? Why must this phone be a thing. MacGuffin as it may be, you spend a great deal of time wrapping your brain around the idiocy of everyone involved.
Okay, call it a paycheck or to keep their entertainment health insurance, this is mainly as a love letter to stunt people. A pitch to have them in the Oscars next year. Truth be told, this most likely put a nail in any push for a stuntman Oscar (which I've pitched since the late 90s).
I love the original show. It was campy, silly BUT Lee Majors just has something Ryan Gosling is missing. Yes, he has the muscles but Majors wasn't jacked. He was a working man with a half grin. Gosling plays him like a stoner loser.
Can ANYONE explain to me why he had to leave after his back accident?
Also, that comes and goes too.
There's no coherence to any of it. Emily Blunt looks lost. She could've easily been a character who wants to make arthouse flicks but is stuck making dumb action movies. Get the character of Chloe Zhao. She failed in a big actioner after "Nomadland." As it is, she doesn't have the body type nor the disposition of a camera operator turned director. I laugh even typing this.
The meta jokes are really stale.
I truly wanted to love this movie. It is an absolute disaster of a movie.