CyberRax

Here's my gripe with this movie: it's about 40 minutes too long, the pacing is all over the place and it has no idea what kind of movie it wants to be. It wasn't particularly funny, I chuckled about 4 times. It didn't really work as an action movie, because the bulk of the action takes place in the final 20 or so minutes, and the couple of fights and chases which come earlier are separated by long dull scenes of dialog. Sooooooooo much bland dialog. A chase scene which repeatedly cuts to people talking... and not in a funny or meaningful way. A scene where I though "They're talking about split screen, and this is shown to us in split screen, that's pretty neat"... but the scene kept on going and going without doing anything for the plot. I found myself looking at my watch and thinking "We're 30 minutes in, and virtually nothing has happened yet". That turned into an hour. Then 1 hour and 30. OK, now they're finally ramping up things. Yeah.

Blunt's is utterly wasted in this film. She could have been replaced by a faceless voice a'la "Bullet Train" and it would have made very little difference. Palmer was decent (didn't even recognize her right away), but she had only like 5 minutes of screen time. Taylor-Johnson did an OK job as the arrogant movie star whom Gosling's character doubles, but he was missing for half of the movie, so didn't really make up for the blandness of pretty much everyone else. And that includes Gosling. There were several well placed cameos, but those were too short to elevate the movie in any significant way.

As they're both adaptations of 80's TV shows where comedy mixes with action, then it's worth comparing "The Fall Guy" to 2010's "The A-Team". Yes, that movie is not well regarded, but frankly speaking it was way more entertaining than what I watched in the cinema today. The dialog was way tighter and served a purpose, the romantic interest wasn't just a pretty face, it fully embraced it's ridiculous premise and actually had charismatic main characters. All things which "Fall Guy" misses.

TL;DR: save your money and wait until the movie reaches streaming services. Then you can watch it while doing chores etc, and have the option to zone out during the many many many boring bits.

Now, don't get me wrong: the movie by itself wasn't *that* bad, it was just horrible (no, not in *that* way) in the Hellraiser context. The problem, you see, is the following: the first half of the series (yes, even the 4th installment which most people dislike) were monster-movies - a mysterious box, a couple of evil looking beings that came with it, and a lot of unlucky people who came in contact with them - while "Inferno" and the rest have been turned into mind game movies, where people see things which may, or may not, be related to the box...

What we have in "Hellworld" is a genuine mediocre teen slasher: 5 young people, who were once dedicated players of the Internet based game "Hellworld" but are taking it cooler since the suicide of their fellow player, get invited to a big party. From the beginning things seem weird and soon our heroes start to die one by one... And that's it. Pinhead, once a scary creature from Hell, has basically been turned into a serial killer with minimum imagination. The whole "you dared to open the box, we came, now you'll be tortured for all eternity" is gone. It's quite obvious that this script wasn't written with Hellraiser in mind. It's actually a mystery why it was even made part of the series, when it'd worked quite nicely independently... It could have used more deaths though.

I have to mention two positive things about the movie: Lace (hey, it doesn't matter if it's a brilliant masterpiece or Z-class production when Lance is in it!) and the fact that everybody was familiar with the Hellraiser mythology (the main character Chelsea even mentions that cenobites could never attack her because she would never open the box... beside the fact that it's all just fiction).

But all in all I'd give it a 4 out of 10 - not enough deaths, lame story, has virtually nothing to do with the Hellraiser franchise, but the deaths were OK and Lace played along.