This is a) a love letter to stunt men, b) based on a tv series, and c) has a completely irrelevant love plot. How much that matters is up to you. [I haven't seen the tv series, didn't even know it existed.]
Colt Seavers is a stunt man, which makes him an action hero. He stunts for Tom Ryder, and something happens to Tom while Colt's lasped girlfriend is now directing a new movie. Colt and Jody spend about ten minutes in their plot, but the focus of this movie is action sequences all over the place with lots of stunts that Colt does.
Which, of course, is a lot of stunts the stunt team is doing. I have no idea how much Ryan or Aaron did their own stunts, but you can't have a movie about stunts and not respect the stunt team. Indeed, at the end of the movie, over the credits, is a showing of the various stunt sequences and we see the stunt men doing their thing. In the movie itself, I don't believe that stunts are actually done in that way, so this is not a realistic portrayal of them.
Ryan and Emily are fine. I belive they can play a would be love pair in a movie. Aaron is there as well, but I don't really get much from him. If I've seen Hannah Waddingham in anything, I don't recall. As mentioned, this is "based" on the tv series featuring Lee Majors, and there is more than one reference to him during the movie.
So, go for the stunts, stay for the stunts, and there are some other things in there too.
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