I don’t always watch comedy/action movies, but considering I did enjoy Ryan Gosling in the Barbie movie…and I wanted to see a film at the cinema…I decided I’d give this one a try.

I really did enjoy this movie, I have to say. Yes, it did require quite a lot of suspension of disbelief…but I liked the way Colt narrated his life and relationship with Jody at the beginning. It was a fairly cliched start to the movie, to see everything good that was happening in Colt’s life and then see how it all went wrong, but cliches are that because they work. And I have to say that it did work here.

Despite needing to use my suspension of disbelief a lot, I found Colt to be a really likable character, and I truly cared about what happened to him. Unfortunately, I can’t say I really felt the same way about Jody. Her whole speech about the alien and the cowboy and relating their relationship in the movie to her own relationship with Colt felt really cringeworthy…and honestly, I felt like she was being pretty petty and vindictive for a lot of the initial scenes, where she forced Colt to keep going through the same stunt again and again. Plus, didn’t she know that the failed stunt at the beginning had severely injured him and what she kept forcing him through had the potential to make those injuries worse? (For some reason, I have it in my head that he broke his back, but I’m not actually sure that was what happened to him).

Regarding Tom and Gail, I have to say that they both felt very much like caricatures/over the top versions of the famous Hollywood actor and the producer who’d do anything for him. I can’t say that was a bad thing, though. The whole movie didn’t take itself very seriously at all, and that was really obvious when it came to the characters of Tom and Gail.

I will say that, although the movie within the movie was a pretty cliched science fiction romance, I found the clips shown from it intriguing enough that it would be a good film on its own merits. And I really thought that the trailer at the end, with Jason Momoa playing the hero, was a really nice touch. I also especially liked the scene where Jody and Colt have a conversation on the phone and Jody talks about including a splitscreen phone conversation in her movie…and that proceeds to be shown with her and Colt. That was pretty fun too.

All told, this was actually a pretty good movie that didn’t take itself too seriously. If you like comedy/action movies that aren’t too steeped in reality, I would definitely recommend giving this one a try.