Gray Man

2022 - 7 - 22

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The Gray Man to Promising Young Woman: the seven best films to ... (The Guardian)

Ryan Gosling is an assassin on the run, while Carey Mulligan plans revenge on the men who prey on LA's drunk women.

German director Wim Wenders brought his fascination with the US, and US cinema, to this stylish 1977 version of Patricia Highsmith’s noir novel Ripley’s Game – though with a European arthouse mood. Jane Austen’s well-meaning but blithely domineering heroine seems as much of a rite of passage for actors as Hamlet. Anya Taylor-Joy is the latest to try her hand in Autumn de Wilde’s pretty-as-a-picture adaptation. It’s a dark film with sharp satirical edges, but also a flicker of light in the shape of Bo Burnham’s love interest Ryan. Saturday 23 July, 3.50am, Sky Cinema Greats Following the Russos from Endgame to spy game is Chris Evans, sporting a most ridiculous tache as Six’s gleeful nemesis Lloyd. The film may ape the Bond films in casting (Ana de Armas from No Time to Die co-stars) and travel brochure set-pieces, but there’s currently a gap in the market for roguish spies – and the film does leave the possibility of a sequel open. Elena’s frustrated desire to be a mother and worries about the couple’s age gap engulf her and alienate Jake. It’s a messily human drama, superbly performed in what is essentially a two-hander, while the handheld, close-up camerawork gives events a restless energy. Titanic duo Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet reunited for the first time in Sam Mendes’s 2008 film, but this knotty drama couldn’t be further from the swooning romance of Jack and Rose. Based on Richard Yates’s 1961 novel and set in 50s America, it follows young married couple Frank and April as they struggle to negotiate the “hopeless emptiness” of suburban, middle-class life.

Netflix's 'The Gray Man' review: The Russo Brothers, plus Ryan ... (Mashable)

Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, and Ana de Armas headline Netflix's espionage thriller about a hired killer on the run to save a young girl from a vicious ...

Where his cool-as-a-cucumber Six should play as a slick foil to Evans' volatile villain, the film is too caught up in its flashy visual confetti to dig into character. Like his MCU bud Chris Hemsworth in Spiderhead, Chris Evans seems to relish the opportunity to slide into a baddie role. If you loved him as the lusciously sweatered, duplicitous douche in Knives Out, you'll appreciate his distinctive turn as Lloyd Hansen, a gleeful killer with the trash 'stache of a Boston cop and the casual wear of a Wall Street dirtbag. For every zippy line ("If you think I'm going to rat someone out for Bubbalicious…"), there are a dozen more in desperate need of a punch-up. Without all the razzle-dazzle of sparks and swish pans, de Armas and her onscreen enemy deliver a brief but satisfying battle that actually thrills. Hell, even the MacGuffin — a flash drive hidden in a medallion — is golden. It's practically the exact opposite experience of watching (and hearing) Jordan Peele's Nopein terms of communicating carnage through sound rather than relying on graphic onscreen violence.in terms of communicating carnage through sound rather than relying on graphic onscreen violence. His lunges are ramped up in the edit, so the punches and kicks should feel more forceful, but the feeble sound design deadens the impact. At a glance, The Gray Man has everything you'd crave in a high-octane action movie. From its first scene, it's hard not to feel like you've seen The Gray Man before. Like The Bourne Identity, this highly trained assassin falls out of the organization's good graces when he botches a hit to save a child bystander. Instead, it feels like a mixtape, pulling bits from a bunch of much better, much more daring action movies, to create a medley that is mediocre at best.'s glowering Ryan Gosling stars as the titular anti-hero, a hired assassin with a heart of gold.

The Gray Man Cast: Where You've Seen The Actors Before (Cinema Blend)

Ryan Gosling (Court Gentry). At the center of The Gray Man is Ryan Gosling's Count Gentry, aka Sierra Six, a CIA black ops operative who becomes the target of ...

Woodard previously worked with the Russos on Captain America: Civil War (she played the grieving mother who approached Tony Stark at MIT), but that was just a small part of her career. The list of Thornton’s best movies features one extraordinary performance after another in films like Sling Blade, Monster’s Ball, Primary Colors, Tombstone and more. And then there is also all that buzz around if he will or will not be the next man to call himself “Bond, James Bond.” With names like Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, and Ana de Armas front and center of the spy thriller book-to-film adaptation, it’s safe to say The Gray Man cast is one remarkable bunch of actors. Despite being best known for playing the fan-favorite hero Captain America throughout the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Evans has proven on more than one occasion that he is well suited to play the bad guy. Anthony and Joe Russo know a thing or two about working with large ensemble casts made of up talented actors — just look at their work on four of the best Marvel movies and it becomes all the more clear.

Netflix's 'The Gray Man' Opens Up Wide Critic-Audience Review ... (Forbes)

After a limited theatrical debut, Netflix's newest attempt at building a blockbuster franchise, The Gray Man, has arrived and so far, it's going somewhat ...

There’s too much talent on board for browsing audiences to flick past it, and if it’s entertaining enough for fans, well, it doesn’t really matter what critics think. It became Netflix’s most-viewed original movie by a good margin, and is getting at least one sequel as a result. If a movie is popular and enjoyed by fans, that’s enough to consider it a success. Captain America: The Winder Soldier and both Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame have 85%+ scores, and similarly high marks from audiences. I expect this to rocket up the Netflix charts over the weekend here, and I would be surprised if this did not end up becoming one of their most viewed movies by the end of its initial run here. To be clear, critics have normally liked the Russo’s work in the Marvel universe.

The Gray Man: Bloated but fun actioner may launch franchise for ... (Newnan Times-Herald)

Review By: Jonathan W. Hickman. Film Details: Directors: Anthony Russo and Joe Russo. Cast: Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Billy Bob Thornton, ...

One frustrating aspect of “The Gray Man” is the fight sequences. Comparisons to “John Wick” here expose the lack of weight of these fight sequences. I suspect we will see more of him in the inevitable “Gray Man” sequel and other English language Hollywood projects. Where Wick appears to be delivering (and taking) blows, the punches thrown in “The Gray Man” don’t seem to have a visceral impact. Still, the way the camera ramps up and ramps down is distracting. Few would argue that she was one of the best things, if not the best thing, about the last Bond film, “No Time To Die.” That sequence in Havana was terrific, causing fans to swoon. And if you turn off your moral compass, there’s fun to be had with “The Gray Man.” Obviously, viewers shouldn’t dwell too much on the efficacy of any decision made by the characters in “The Gray Man.” It would be impossible to make perfect sense of any one motivation. If only we got more elegance and less barbaric action sequences, “The Gray Man” would have been a far better movie. And where their last movie, 2021’s drug drama “Cherry,” failed to resonate, a return to the action genre definitely agrees with the twosome. The set-up for “The Gray Man” is excellent. Both men were part of a top-secret program led by the surly Fitzroy (a gray man himself, Billy Bob Thornton) that takes criminals and puts them to work as covert operatives.

'The Gray Man' movie review: Prague is spectacular in Netflix ... (The Prague Reporter)

Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans face off in this globetrotting spy movie from the directors of Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame.

Kudos to the filmmakers, by the way, for those florid Evil Dead-like establishing shots shot from a drone, which capture large swaths of the city and shake things up from the usual. Promoted as Netflix’s most expensive movie to date, The Gray Man is undeniably polished and entirely engrossing, though like most of the streaming service’s offerings, it feels more like disposable entertainment than event cinema. (See previous articles for more details on The Gray Man’s shooting locations in Prague). This slam-bang sequence, largely accomplished using practical effects outside of shots of Prague architecture being smashed up to pieces, is beautifully choreographed and executed, and easily the film’s biggest highlight. Twenty years after he’s recruited, Six finds himself in Bangkok and assigned to take out a target by slick new CIA honcho Denny Carmichael ( Regé-Jean Page) before said target can sell off valuable government data. Still, one might wish this real-life spy movie took things more seriously than a comic book blockbuster; The Gray Man’s destructive action sequences seem to unfold without much consequence, while its characters never miss an opportunity to make a lighthearted quip.

'The Gray Man' Takes the Stoic-Spy Cliché Way Too Far (The Atlantic)

Much like Brad Pitt before him, Ryan Gosling keeps falling into Hollywood's “cool guy” trap.

He’s pulled off the taciturn heroes of Drive, Blade Runner 2049, and First Man, but also the shambling, overconfident private detective Holland March in The Nice Guys, the scumbag trader Jared Vennett in The Big Short, and the kind-hearted but awkward Lars of Lars and the Real Girl. He was at his least interesting as a do-gooder cop in Gangster Squad, and that’s what The Gray Man recalled for me above all. Given that the government honed him as a “gray man” who could blend into the background of any assignment, he spends the majority of the movie glowering and mumbling when he’s not being tossed into another CGI-powered combo of running, jumping, and shooting. In return, he delivers the all-purpose steely charm required of him, but there’s no passion behind it. The actor he’s frequently reminded me of is Brad Pitt, who catapulted to fame in the early ’90s with striking work in Thelma and Louise, bolstered by his chiseled face. One of his best-remembered films remains the taut 2011 thriller Drive, in which he played an unnamed stunt driver who is cool behind the wheel but monosyllabic in conversation. In First Man, he portrayed the astronaut Neil Armstrong as prickly and standoffish, far more ready to face his work than any interpersonal relationship.