The Gray Man

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 think I've come to terms that outside Marvel the Russo brothers are average directors.

We are treated to an above average action thriller with questionable cinematography. Gosling and Evans were good in their roles which was nice to see. Pacing was decent.

The plot and action sequences were very typical and nothing to write about.

Overall, I think Netflix are digging their own grave by splashing so much cash into this movie that I'll probably forget in a week.

Rushing from place to place after opening with a colorful killing in Bangkok adds little to get us into the story.

IMHO relying on Ryan Gosling and Ana de Armas proven star qualities fails to substitute a proper establishment of their characters in this movie. Of course as many others I wondered who took all the money Netflix paid for this production but as with so many other big productions today, it's not the point if CGI, actors or travel expenses of the crew were overpriced, the problem lies in the script. The art in script writing is to build up characters and a story. If you don't know why things happen, you don't care and all the surprises and zigzags of the plot loose a lot of their potential.

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.

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?