{"id":22001,"date":"2022-07-22T06:27:54","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T06:27:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/the-gray-man-review-big-budget-boringness-from-netflix\/"},"modified":"2022-07-22T06:27:54","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T06:27:54","slug":"the-gray-man-review-big-budget-boringness-from-netflix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/the-gray-man-review-big-budget-boringness-from-netflix\/","title":{"rendered":"‘The Gray Man’ review: Big-budget boringness from Netflix"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With \u201cThe Gray Man,\u201d Anthony and Joe Russo have accomplished something extraordinary.<\/p>\n

The \u201cAvengers: Endgame\u201d directors have taken a cast of wildly appealing Hollywood A-listers \u2014 Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Reg\u00e9-Jean Page from \u201cBridgerton\u201d \u2014 and made them all dull afterthoughts.<\/p>\n

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Running time: 122 minutes. Rated PG-13 (intense sequences of violence and strong language). Ten Netflix.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

It’s a truly amazing feat. You simply cannot believe you’re staring at megastars \u2014 so sapped of individuality and charisma they are. <\/p>\n

My barista could have been cast as the lead of this action-thriller, and the movie would be absolutely no different.<\/p>\n

Yet Netflix dropped a whopping $200 million ($50 million shy of the budget for \u201cNo Time To Die\u201d) on the visually grand adaptation of Mark Greaney’s spy novels in hopes that it kicks off a popular movie series along the lines of James Bond, \u201c The Bourne Identity,\u201d \u201cMission: Impossible\u201d and \u201cJohn Wick.\u201d <\/p>\n

Best of luck! That’s an awfully tall order when your movie doesn’t have a strong main character.<\/p>\n

Ryan Gosling plays Sierra Six in Netflix’s \u201cThe Gray Man.\u201d <\/figcaption>
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James Bond is King Lear next to Sierra Six \u2014 played by a cold and demure Gosling \u2014 an imprisoned murderer who has his sentence commuted in exchange for becoming a trained underground killer for the CIA. He carries out secret unsavory missions for the government.<\/p>\n

When Six is \u200b\u200blured into the gig by his handler Donald Fitzroy (Billy Bob Thornton), he’s told, \u201cYou’ll exist in the gray.\u201d <\/p>\n

Six replies: \u201cDisposable?\u201d<\/p>\n

Yup. <\/p>\n

Skip ahead 18 years. After a questionable new handler (Page) instructs him to kill another agent, Sierra Four, Six discovers his own life is also in danger from the CIA and goes on the run \u2014 with damaging intel in tow. <\/p>\n

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Chris Evans plays the villainous Lloyd Hansen. <\/figcaption>
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He’s doggedly pursued around the world by an agent-turned-mercenary named Lloyd Hansen (Evans, choosing nondescript wackiness) and joined for a bit by another wax figure called Dani (Armas doing her best Mrs. Cellophane). <\/p>\n

Six also needs to rescue Fitzroy’s young niece, who has been kidnapped by Hansen.<\/p>\n

The actors, while uniformly bland, are not entirely at fault for their characters’ shortcomings and the overly familiar guy-goes-rogue plot. <\/p>\n

That would be writers Joe Russo, Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely. Their story is typical, perfunctory spy-thrilled Mad Libs. And they have everybody speak in annoying secret-agent government lingo that’s neither creatively stylized nor believable \u2014 like a judge yelling \u201corder in the court!\u201d while angrily banging a gavel. Take a drink every time someone says \u201casset.\u201d <\/p>\n

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Reg\u00e9-Jean Page and Ana de Armas are at odds as CIA agents. <\/figcaption>
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Further, the writers deny their characters any development, richness or, really, emotion. A high-speed roller coaster of explosions with no time for anyone to process anything would be OK if \u201cGray Man\u201d was a lot of fun, but it’s merely a ho-hum travelogue with unremarkable fight scenes. <\/p>\n

We’re whisked to Bangkok, Vienna, Berlin and more. Endless bullets are shot; punches are thrown. The viewer, meanwhile, longs for Keanu Reeves as John Wick to roll in and kill a dude with a library book. Give us some panache, please.<\/p>\n

The personality of \u201cGray Man\u201d is contained entirely in its visuals that, in a surely purposeful departure from the title, are boldly colorful. An early sequence in Thailand is doused in purples, reds, blues and yellows and is a pleasure to take in. <\/p>\n

This style-substance disparity has become a recurring issue for the Russos’ post-Marvel career: Eye-popping splendor paired with a foul script. <\/p>\n

The brothers are talented, no doubt about it, but they have yet to prove they can make a good movie without Thanos and Tony Stark.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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With \u201cThe Gray Man,\u201d Anthony and Joe Russo have accomplished something extraordinary. The \u201cAvengers: Endgame\u201d directors have taken a cast of wildly appealing Hollywood A-listers \u2014 Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Reg\u00e9-Jean Page from \u201cBridgerton\u201d \u2014 and made them all dull afterthoughts. movie review Running time: 122 minutes. Rated PG-13 (intense sequences of …<\/p>\n

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