Any Hollywood action film can’t just have one big moment in its climax, so naturally, the car jump isn’t quite enough. Yes, Jody and Colt get a confession out of Tom, and no, it’s not officially entrapment. (As Colt snaps, Tom’s the one wearing a wire.) But Gail and Tom make one last-ditch effort to escape, grabbing the footage of the confession and trying to leave via helicopter. Colt takes it upon himself, with Jody’s assistance, to climb up a camera crane in motion and jump to the helicopter (with shades of Tom Cruise’s helicopter stunts in “Mission: Impossible — Fallout”) and stop the nefarious duo before they can leave for good.
Parts of this jump have been teased in the trailers for “The Fall Guy,” which doesn’t make the full stunt any less impressive. It’s actually a two-part stunt, the latter of which is as close to standard practice on a movie set as possible: once Colt finally wrangles the footage away, he leaps off the helicopter onto a massive pad below. (The eagle-eyed viewer will note that the pad is branded with 87 North, the same production company created by Leitch.) The stunt work in that second part is less terrifying, though a fun mirror image of Colt’s first stunt of the film. But watching a man jump onto a moving helicopter from another moving vehicle is gripping and thrilling, as the best stunts should be.
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