There's plenty of drama but no heart in this Netflix tale of CIA assassins, which jumps frantically between exotic locations.
The dodgy CIA commander is played by Regé-Jean Page, but Sierra’s old boss Fitzroy is a straight-up good guy, played by Billy Bob Thornton; Fitzroy has a fatherly concern for Sierra, because he once asked him to look after his young niece Claire, played by 13-year-old Julia Butters in a bland and improbably cutesy role. Sierra goes rogue when he discovers his own employers are up to no good, the evidence being a data chip in a medallion on the body of one of his victims: a very cursory MacGuffin whose exact significance is never really spelled out. Two solid hours of efficient Netflix content is what’s on offer here, the action-thriller equivalent of a conscientiously microwaved Tuscan Sausage Penne from M&S. Directed by the Russo brothers, Joe and Anthony, this has Ryan Gosling playing a CIA assassin recruited from prison for a top-secret black ops unit, one of a team of “gray men” operating in the murky shadows; he is known only by his codename Sierra Six (the other choices presumably being Cortina Six, Focus Six and Fiesta Six).
The Russo brothers evoke Bond and Bourne with the familiar story of a US government assassin forced to go it alone.
Netflix's most expensive film yet is relentlessly superficial, but when it's this much fun who cares about the absurd plot?
There’s a comic side to his performance, although few spectators will find it funny when he starts ripping out the fingernails of one of his antagonists. Whether he is caught in mid-air without a parachute or handcuffed to a city centre bench as armies of antagonists attack him with machine guns and bazookas, he never loses his poise or balletic grace. The twist here is that the hunter soon becomes the hunted: he learns from encrypted messages hidden in a locket that one of his bosses is corrupt. A little strangely, there is no explicit romance – Six is far too busy trying to stay alive to have time for candlelit dinners. These take place in a far wider, more exotic range of locations than you will find in the average Bond movie. The Gray Man will be on Netflix in a week’s time but it’s worth watching on the biggest screen possible first.
Gosling just can't stop talking about his "Ken-ergy"
And then you know what it is, but I don’t think that’s what you think it is.” A true Ken-undrum, one might say. It’s not what you expect,” he allowed. “I have that Ken-ergy that he can feel, obviously,” Gosling shares, referencing Evans’ insult that his Gray Man character is a “Ken doll” in another interview with Entertainment Tonight. “I still feel like the Ken-ergy is alive.” What is Ken-ergy, you may ask? “I can’t wait for people to see the film. “It’s not what you think it is, unless it is. “You have a Ken in your life, and you know that Ken has Ken-ergy.” Okay, sure!
While talking about the Greta Gerwig film 'Barbie' starring Margot Robbie, Ryan Gosling also opened up about the new action thriller called 'The Gray Man'.
Gosling claimed that the entire crew was responsible for the creation of a traditional hero: “What I didn’t realise was just how many people it takes to make an action hero.” But we had an incredible stunt team, and an incredible special effects team.” Ryan Gosling has been generating a lot of buzz after his picture from Greta Gerwig’s Barbie was released online.
Ryan Gosling has finally teased information on his role as Ken in the upcoming live-action Barbie movie with Margot Robbie.
When pushed further on what exactly ‘Ken-ergy’ means, La La Land star Ryan kept it vague but offered: ‘You’ve got a Ken in your life. I felt seen,’ he recalled. I still feel like the Ken-ergy is alive,’ he proclaimed. The has starred in a host of top-billed films including The Notebook, Drive and La La Land, which landed him his Oscar nomination for best actor – but Ken might be his biggest role to date, judging by keen interest in the film. He then finally gave us a little something, with a surprising revelation about his version of the doll in the movie. In a comment sure to delight fans, who melted the internet when first-look images of him as Ken were released in June, showing him in an abs-bearing unbuttoned denim jacket and personalised underwear, the star also said he had ‘Ken-enrgy’.
I hope this starts a Ken-ergy movement,” the Oscar nominee teased at the premiere of his new film, The Gray Man. “The Ken-ergy is going to be alive and well ...
He had a lot of fun playing it, and I had a lot of fun playing against it,” Gosling said. I was so happy that I waited for this opportunity, because this was like the films I grew up with,” Gosling said on the arrivals carpet. “I’ve waited my whole life to look like this,” he teased. “A lot of the funniest lines in the film that come out of Ryan’s mouth were improvs from Ryan.” When asked about his natural ability to spit out playful punch lines, Gosling immediately quipped, “I get my sense of humor from Sears. It was on sale.” After a long four-year absence, Ryan Gosling returns to the big screen as a Black Ops assassin in The Gray Man, reportedly Netflix’s most expensive movie to date. “The Gray Man is different from anything I’ve done before.
Unlike Pete Davidson's haunting 2019 Ken doll photo shoot, Gosling as Ken made sense. Apparently, he agrees. Talking with Variety about his role in the upcoming ...
As Gosling would say, welcome to the “Ken-aissance.” When the photos of Ryan Gosling as Ken first dropped, it was hard to deny that something about it felt right. “I felt like I was seeing myself.
BRIAN VINER: We first meet Gosling's wise-cracking title character in a Florida jail, where he is serving a long sentence for murder.
It transpires that his paymasters are not the paragons of morality that we all (that is to say, none of us) thought the CIA were. He is revered these days as a wise elder statesman of tennis, yet charm is in just as short supply as it ever was. All that said, there is one stark difference between this and Bond. There’s not a hint of carnality in this movie. But another Netflix release, Persuasion, is clueless in all the wrong ways. Well, Dakota Johnson as Anne, forever pinging arch glances at the camera, looks as wan and sorrowful as an Instagram influencer. The Russos and their screenwriters, adapting Mark Greaney’s novel, have sufficient fun with all this for at least some of it to rub off on the audience. ‘He is a strange bird.’ The answer is yes. Accordingly, The Gray Man is the most expensive Netflix film ever made, with a budget of around $200million. Happily it shows, with some stunts that are as thrillingly extravagant as they are implausibly silly. We first meet Gosling’s wise-cracking title character in a Florida jail, where he is serving a long sentence for murder. The story resumes 20 years later. The Bond producers might have to raise their game.
Ryan Gosling has revealed that Ken is pretty down on his luck in the highly anticipated Barbie live-action film.
He’s going through some stuff." Unfortunately for fans, that was all Ryan could say about the film for the time being, joking that Mattel would "come in and box me up" if he shared any more details. Ryan Gosling has revealed that Ken will be pretty down on his luck when fans get to see him in the highly-anticipated Barbie live-action movie.