The Fall Guy Review & X-Men '97 Finale Begins!
This Episode includes a review of The Fall Guy, recap of X-Men '97's finale start, a goodbye to Star Wars: The Bad Batch and breakdown of the Lion King Mufasa prequel trailer!
The ComicBook Nation crew reviews The Fall Guy, new horror film Tarot and Jerry Seinfeld's directorial debut with Netflix's Unfrosted. We also say farewell to Star Wars: The Bad Batch after its Series Finale, and get into part 1 of X-Men '97's finale arc.
PLUS: Breakdowns of the new trailers for Mufasa: The Lion King, the Batman: Arkham Shadow game – and a preview of WWE's Backlash event!
The Fall Guy Review
Critic Patrick Cavanaugh gave The Fall Guy 3 out of 5 stars, writing that:
The Fall Guy is perfectly palatable summer fare featuring attractive movie stars being charming, with the romance occasionally being broken up by more thrilling scenes. For better or worse, the scope and scale of both the storyline and the stunts themselves feel more like an extended episode of the source material as opposed to an opportunity to take a core premise and elevate to new heights. Given the more humble origins of the Mission: Impossible franchise and the ways Brian De Palma tapped into the core components of the TV series and revived them in unexpected and exciting ways and just how bombastic that franchise has since become, we can't rule out The Fall Guy becoming a franchise that can more fully push the effective elements to further heights in subsequent installments, especially after this entry lays a solid foundation of talent involved in the overall experience. Leitch is no De Palma, however, so while all of the core pieces come to life relatively cohesively, there isn't much to elevate The Fall Guy to be anything more than the sum of its parts.
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