The Gray Man

I'm not going to make specific comments about the movie and spoil the fun, ALL the other 1-3 star reviews have thoroughly taken care of that. I'm here to state it's blatantly obvious the film industry is trending downwards at full speed. Even with an all star cast, proven directors, and an ample budget, this was the best they could do? What's most alarming are the 8-10 star ratings for a movie that nothing more than cut and paste of random fights, shoot outs, character decision making devoid of logic, and very predictable absurd action sequences. We'll never get back to the days of not being required to completely shut off our brains "start to finish" in order to enjoy a movie.

I really surprise all negative comments. What do people expect? God Father? Schindler's List every time? They should accept the fact that movies are also made for entartainment and I really enjoyed this one.

Two solid hours of efficient Netflix content is what's on offer here, the action-thriller equivalent of emptiness with nothing but cliche thrillers and mediocre action.

The Gray Man is mostly a collection of tired spy tropes, directed in a muddled and baffling way, that seemingly exists to set up what seems like will be a fairly unimaginative franchise.

The dialogues were cringe and didn't excite at all. The only grace was seeing Ryan Gosling on screen. A big budget film with neither strong screenplay nor efficient set up, The Gray Man feels like a sunk ship with lots of efforts vanishing in vain.

Aside from two hand-to-hand combat scenes, the fights are a dimly-lit mess of quick cuts and bullets flying, something similar to what Michael Bay has done all over these years.

Being a big budget film, The Gray Man is a disappointment to a greater extent, considering that the project had A List actors, but a poor storyline.

My Rating: 5/10.

I couldn't get passed the few bad reviews I tried to read on here. Pining for "the good ole days" I mean what were they expecting to see here? It's an action movie with above average action. A lot of over the top stuff. For me it was the back and forth between the lead actors that I liked. Very entertaining and you know what? That's what I'm looking for in a movie, to be entertained. They made you really hate the new breed of CIA, they made you love the villain Chris Evan's (when do you not like him) and Ryan Gosling does his little cute deadpan jokes thing that he keeps doing lately that you've seen and yet never expect him to be funny. I mean seriously I've been aware of things he did growing up, never really paid much attention to him but I've seen stuff that he's been in but all of a sudden he's just hilarious to me. The Nice Guys really showed this off.

Anyway the movie is a good watch. It's not life changing, but it'll make you smile. What's wrong with that?

Unfortunately, before seeing the movie I saw some reviews and critics who criticized the movie a lot, classifying it as shallow, meaningless and so on. Obviously it's not a masterpiece of action movies and doesn't come close to Bourne or 007, however, it still manages to be a good movie, the plot is a little cliché and shallow has secondary plots that don't go deep and for me in that, the movie falls short. The action scenes have a lot of cuts which honestly takes the excitement out of the scene. The various locations, despite enhancing the film in terms of photography, are very beautiful.

The point for a lot of people not to have liked the movie is that it doesn't propose to be deep, it just introduces the characters and you have to accept them, there's not much explanation about why they are like that or how they got in that situation, it's a simple plot, for a simple movie and aimed at a large audience, does that make the movie bad? Obviously not. So I highly recommend this movie if you're just looking for fun and action scenes.