The Gray Man (2022)
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When a shadowy CIA agent uncovers damning agency secrets, he's hunted across the globe by a sociopathic rogue operative who's put a bounty on his head.
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... Six
... Lloyd Hansen
... Dani Miranda
... Fitzroy
... Suzanne Brewer
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_The Gray Man_ has some impressive action sequences, but is such a lackluster film experience overall. Most of the action is bogged down by sloppy editing where a complete absence of proper lighting ruins whatever positives the film had going for it. The talented cast does what they can with their roles, but it’s not enough to make the film entertaining. Ana de Armas is mostly forgettable apart from shooting tranquilizer darts in guy’s butts and firing a rocket launcher a few times. Tedious and sluggish with punches and kicks and kills that barely satisfy, _The Gray Man_ is a dead on arrival action thriller that squanders potential almost as often as Ryan Gosling chews gum.
**Full Review:** https://hubpages.com/entertainment/The-Gray-Man-2022-The-Yawn-Ultimatum
Writer:
Christopher Markus (Screenplay)
Stephen McFeely (Screenplay)
Joe Russo (Screenplay)
Mark Greaney (Novel)
Release Date:
2022-07-13
Run Time:
127 min
MMPA Rating:
PG-13
Reviews of
The Gray Man
_The Gray Man_ has some impressive action sequences, but is such a lackluster film experience overall. Most of the action is bogged down by sloppy editing where a complete absence of proper lighting ruins whatever positives the film had going for it. The talented cast does what they can with their roles, but it’s not enough to make the film entertaining. Ana de Armas is mostly forgettable apart from shooting tranquilizer darts in guy’s butts and firing a rocket launcher a few times. Tedious and sluggish with punches and kicks and kills that barely satisfy, _The Gray Man_ is a dead on arrival action thriller that squanders potential almost as often as Ryan Gosling chews gum.
**Full Review:** https://hubpages.com/entertainment/The-Gray-Man-2022-The-Yawn-Ultimatum
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"The Gray Man holds the energetic, over-the-top, explosive action from the Russo Brothers, which should be enough to entertain the vast majority of the audience throughout the admittedly generic, predictable screenplay. Excessive camera movement occasionally sabotages the fantastic fight choreography, but nothing that lasts too long.
Regardless of the valuable technical aspects, the success of this movie is inherently connected to the superb performances from a cast packed with chemistry. Ryan Gosling demonstrates that he knows how to play an action protagonist, Chris Evans clearly has tons of fun playing a "bad guy" full of personality, Ana de Armas captivates as the sidekick badass, while Jessica Henwick is underused - the actress has done more than enough in her career to portray bigger roles.
See it in the theater, if possible."
Rating: B
Well at least this latest Netflix effort gives us some eye candy in the form of the annoyingly ageless Ryan Gosling and a slightly hammy Chris Evans, but the rest of it is derivative even by their standards. We start with a young man being released from prison by "Fitzroy" (Tommy Lee Jones) so he can join an elite CIA hit squad. Named "Six" (Gosling), his first mission is straight out of the "Mechanic" (2011) only it's an erstwhile colleague that he is sent to eradicate. A task that proves remarkably simple but is accomplished not before, luckily for us, he is given a micro chip that illustrates his new boss "Carmichael" (an underwhelming Regé-Jean Page) is about as crooked as the day is long. There now ensues a series of long "John Wick" style combat scenes as try as this hugely well equipped CIA operation does, it simply cannot capture "Six". Desperate times call for desperate measures so "Hansen" (Evans) is drafted in to finally do the business by kidnapping the easily accessible niece of the now retired TLJ, and using her as leverage he tries a different tack. Wholesale slaughter follows and along the way some lovely buildings in Prague and Croatia become neat piles of rubble; the local citizens are dropping like flies sending those in the CIA PR department into spasms... Well you get the gist. The always over-rated Ana de Armas sports quite a colourful suit at the start, but as usual her contributions are pretty unimpressive; TLJ is nowhere near his best and the thing lurches on towards a really inevitable conclusion that stretched out the thinnest of plots and showed a really disconcerting image of a CIA completely out of control, running rampage - and that scenario isn't remotely plausible. There is plenty of car-chasing, gunfights and pyrotechnic displays but that's nowhere near enough to compensate for a pretty unremarkable script and an amalgam of stories we have seen done better elsewhere, many times before. That said, if you get a chance to see it during it's limited cinema run then I'd give it a go. On television this is just subscription fodder with A-list cows that you will instantly forget.
Seing this as another run to the mill Netflix release should not keep your hopes up. Netflix is where mediocre goes to congreate to the masses.
We have another spy action movie amongst us. Last one before this was Kate, that was another bland action-spy movie.
This offers absolutely NOTHING new to the table. We seen every trick this movie offer before. Over-skilled agents. Clever coreographed fight scenes, Trick tactics, agents with no names, An agency who elimintaes their own agents, expendable kill teams, plenty conspiracies and tons of action.
But i have to say i enjoy Gosling alone in this one. He plays it cool. Its just shame that he is backed up with a script littered with clichés from start to end.
We also have Ana De Armas who is fast becoming the new Tom Holland that appears everywhere. An actress that is milked trought the Hollywood system and spewed out to never be heard of again some day.
But the movie is for sure a worthy popcorn flick with no expetations to give. On a entertainment standpoint it delivers.
Anyone thinking the CIA is anything other than awful, should in my humble opinion, take a long look at their actual history.
Anyway, putting aside the predictable effort to set up this nasty little three letter acronym as virtuous, there's not a lot going on here.
Its your usual rather heavy handed, cruel, cynical, US action flick.
Exposition is polished but then it needs to be, because there's not a lot else on offer that I can see. Suffice to say, instantly watchable and just as forgettable.
So if you want simple action and can look past the not so subtle messaging, this is a marginally alright watch.
**Overall : The big-budget, big stars, and big action felt more like a knockoff of other action franchises than a success in itself.**
The Gray Man is the result of putting a Fast and Furious movie in a blender with Taken or John Wick and Michael Bay. The outrageous action and super cheesy dialogue try to take itself as a serious spy movie. Don’t get me wrong-it’s not a bad movie. The fight choreography is pretty good, and the Gray Man boasts an impressive A-list cast. It is a decent generic action flick. But the goofiness of Chris Evans’ villain was almost at Batman & Robin levels. I really wanted to rate this movie a little higher (like a 3.5 of 5 or 7 of 10), but it just falls short.
Cast & Crew of
The Gray Man
Cast
... Six
... Lloyd Hansen
... Dani Miranda
... Fitzroy
... Suzanne Brewer
... Avik San
... Margaret Cahill
... Carmichael
... Laszlo Sosa
... Claire
... Six's Father
... Dulin
... Perini
... Markham
... Dining Car
... The Buyer
... Young Six
... Dawson
... Officer Zelezny
... Ranking Officer
... URNA Captain
... Lead Hansen Tech
... Junior Hansen Tech
... Alex Dumas
... Command Center Tech
... Lead Merc
... C.I.A. Officer
... C.I.A. Specialist
... Young Boy
... Old Woman
... Young Woman
... Russian Orthodox Priest
... DJ
... C.I.A. Tech
... Wendy
... Doctor
... Czech Orderly
... Pilot
... Co-Pilot
... Chopper Pilot
... Australian Team Leader
... Intense Man
... Gamer
... Drunken Thai Guy
... Czech Doctor
... Czech Police Officer
... Czech Injured Man
... Czech Injured Woman
... Patrol Merc
... Teenage Girl #1
... Teenage Girl #2
... Elena
... Erik Carver
... Hansen Exec
... Machine Gun Merc
... C.I.A. Agent #1
... C.I.A. Agent #2
... C.I.A. Agent #3
... C.I.A. Agent #4
... Medivac EMT #1
... Medivac EMT #2
... Medic
... Funeral Gunner
... CIA DDO Fine
... MP #1
... MP #2
... Interrogation Subject
... Masked Man
... Goon
... CIA Deputy
... 1995 De-Age Double #1
... 2003 De-Age Double #4
... 2003 De-Age Double #1
Crew
... Set Decoration
... Editor
... Screenplay
... Executive Producer
... Screenplay
... Executive Producer
... Supervising Art Director
... Costume Design
... Director
... Producer
... Screenplay
... Director
... Producer
... Producer
... Producer
... Director of Photography
... Executive Producer
... Set Dresser
... Makeup Artist
... Original Music Composer
... Executive Producer
... Editor
... Art Direction
... Art Direction
... Executive Producer
... Makeup Department Head
... Set Designer
... Visual Effects Supervisor
... Assistant Art Director
... Set Designer
... Set Designer
... Makeup Artist
... Set Designer
... Set Designer
... Executive Producer
... Set Costumer
... Producer
... Set Designer
... Set Costumer
... Makeup Artist
... Set Costumer
... Producer
... Art Direction
... Costume Supervisor
... Stunts
... Utility Stunts
... Set Dresser
... Set Dresser
... Makeup Artist
... Set Dresser
... Visual Effects Supervisor
... Visual Effects Supervisor
... Executive Producer
... Assistant Art Director
... Set Costumer
... Novel
... Art Direction
... Art Direction
... Set Decoration Buyer
... Set Dresser
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