The Gray Man

It's not enough to see Chris Evans and Ryan Gosling do battle in just one Netflix movie, so here's all the info on The Gray Man 2 release date.

That’s all we know about The Gray Man 2 release date for now, but we’re sure more details will crawl out of the woodwork as the dust settles on this first chapter in Court Gentry’s journey. So, when can we expect The Gray Man 2 release date to be? What will be The Gray Man 2 release date?

Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans and Ana de Armas face off in an explosive and expensive thriller in theaters now and on Netflix soon.

In the wake of public shootings in the US, Denmark and Norway (and that's just this year) this callous ultraviolence hits different. The quippy banter and sharp action are heightened and stylized, and just a ton of fun. But then there's a huge showdown in the streets of a European city. Maybe I'm squinting too hard to suggest this is Netflix's smartest action film, but it's definitely one of the most fun. On paper, The Gray Man has all the elements of a formulaic spy genre (and I do mean all the elements -- there's about four movies' worth of stuff going on). Thumb drives. That's what sets The Gray Man apart from formulaic plods like Extraction or Amazon's turgid Without Remorse. From the opening scene, in which Gosling goes into battle in a crisp scarlet suit twirling a water pistol, to his silent silhouetted dispatching of a platoon of bodyguards with whatever cutlery comes to hand, the flick has swagger to burn. Rooftop helipads and secure lines and guys making the bullets fall out of a gun before the other guy can shoot him. At least de Armas' appearance in Bond film No Time to Die was essentially a cameo, but this is a waste of the white-hot star of the moment. Clearly directors Joe and Anthony Russo are very self-aware about the type of flick they're making. After 60 years of James Bond on screen, after six (and counting) Mission: Impossible movies, a spy movie hinges on a frickin' thumb drive! "We get it, you're glib," Thornton responds, but as Gosling contemplates a life of murder for the government his eyes soften mournfully. In some theaters now and then streaming on Netflix July 22, The Gray Man opens with Gosling in prison two decades ago, wisecracking at Billy Bob Thornton's unflappable CIA spook.

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The Gray Man never stops trying to achieve a blase hipness, which is meant to counter the supersized spectacle and the presumably gargantuan budget, but the snotty sarcasm isn’t sharp enough, only underlining the picture’s programmatic nature. We quickly meet Six (Gosling), a Bourne-like assassin who’s about to execute his latest government-sanctioned kill in Bangkok, assisted by a CIA agent he’s never met before, Dani (de Armas) – but he quickly learns that his target is connected to the same top-secret US program as he is. Releasing in US and UK theatres on Friday July 15 before arriving on Netflix globally a week later, The Gray Man is the sort of derivative, high-profile event picture that has become the streamer’s signature.

Based on the 2009 novel of the same name by Mark Greaney, The Gray Man follows the titular Sierra Six (Ryan Gosling), a man recruited from prison to be a ...

Overall, The Gray Man isn’t a film that’s going to set anyone’s world alight – in this regard, the title is appropriate in ways the writers may not have intended. Evans is a very entertaining counterpart to Six as the delightfully deranged Lloyd, bringing heaps of heel heat to an otherwise one-note character. Gosling is a lot of fun as the mercenary-with-a-heart-of-gold Six, adding a lot of personality to the role to compensate for dialogue that doesn’t give him much to work with.