Sorry. He's a degenerate, you know.

Hooper - 3.5/5

To the point of 'newness,' and the failure of 'The Fall Guy' to become something bigger than it was, 'Hooper' illustrates something that movie didn't have: a culture of stunt-people. A world inside our own that we had not known before. Though TFG existed within that society, it built its world on a mystery-to-be-solved and a romance-to-be-resolved, while Hooper is down in the mud with the people. It builds a world of not necessarily Southern people, but a Southern mentality which was embodied in Burt Reynolds. Get in trouble, have fun, hurt yourself, help your friends. They're assholes to everyone outside their ring, and to everyone inside their corner; the only difference that they've become your asshole, and you've earned your place beside them. It's a world, I think, that hasn't existed for thirty-some years, since Burt Reynolds fell off the scene. The moonshiners, the honky-tonkers, the people on the sidelines, no greater purpose to their lives than just having a beer and a laugh. The movie upends this towards the end, trying to build to drama, but it wasn't built to handle it well. At least it knows it? The wink at the end says it all: "You had fun, didn't you?" I did. As it is, it's movie-as-window into another world, one I'd happily visit again.