The Gray Man

"Brainless" is the word that comes up most often in reviews of "The Gray Man."

That Gosling and Evans sometimes succeed makes "The Gray Man" good enough to rank as watchable. But "The Gray Man," based on 12 bestselling page-turners by Mark Greaney, wants to build a franchise starring Gosling as CIA assassin Sierra Six. "007 was taken," teases Six -- real name Court Gentry (I'm not kidding) -- just to show what kind of franchise Netflix has in mind. -- $200 million (a record for them) to win back audiences like it did with the two-series punch of "Squid Game" and "Stranger Things."

The film, which stars Ryan Reynolds as Court Gentry (aka Six) and Chris Evans as Lloyd Hansen, just dropped today (July 22) on Netflix. It's gotten a lot of ...

With The Gray Man out of the way, there are 10 more Gentry novels for adaptation. The next chapter in the series is titled On Target, and it finds Gentry forced into a mission against his will. So, since The Gray Man doesn't end with a tag that says "Court Gentry will return in The Gray Man 2" or some similarly-titled movie, it's hard to know at this stage if Netflix will or won't bring the cast and crew back. Death, taxes and ... The Gray Man 2? The Gray Man's announcement (July 17, 2020) and release date (July 22, 2022) were separated by about two years, but the Covid-19 pandemic may have thrown some delays in there. Of course, there will need to be some new villains for Gentry to fight.

Beyond teaming with The Russo Brothers, Jackman is known for his work on movies like Kingsman: The Secret Service, X-Men First Class, and Captain Phillips.

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Chris Evans and Ryan Gosling's new Netflix film The Gray Man is very much a globe-trotting adventure – here is a filming location guide.

And we were able to pull that off during the pandemic, which is, I think, a real testament to everybody." "I mean, we had access to a massive section of the city in order to accomplish that scene. "So that was actually a big boon for us.

It's one of Hollywood's most popular spy franchises, so it's perhaps no surprise that Netflix's most costly film ever made has been inspired by the ...

'Sure, the concept is unoriginal - a man on the run, some evil mercenaries, a kidnapped girl - but no one watches these movies for the plot. It took a minute to get there and find the right one.' Chris Evans, Ryan Gosling and Ana de Armas - my favourite trio. 'He's unapologetically himself,' Evans said of the character. It made me fall in love with movies in the first place. Definitely one of my favourites. 'Movies like The Gray Man live or die on their action sequences,' it continued. The Bond producers might have to raise their game,' explained the Daily Mail's Brian Viner The Bond producers might have to raise their game,' explained the Daily Mail's Brian Viner. 'It is hard to shoot action. 'It has this “How is this dude still on his feet?!” factor. The Gray Man is the most expensive Netflix film ever made, with a budget of around $200million (£166millon) - and boasts a star-studded cast, including former Bond girl Ana De Armas (left) and Bridgerton's Regé-Jean Page (right), who's been tipped to become the next 007

Speaking exclusively to Digital Spy, the Russos explained why fans of the book will notice some big plot changes in the film adaptation. chris evans, jessica ...

So that was another key shift that we made from the book." We can't get that in a movie." We can get his thoughts through a book on the page.

After a limited theatrical debut, Netflix's newest attempt at building a blockbuster franchise, The Gray Man, has arrived and so far, it's going somewhat ...

There’s too much talent on board for browsing audiences to flick past it, and if it’s entertaining enough for fans, well, it doesn’t really matter what critics think. It became Netflix’s most-viewed original movie by a good margin, and is getting at least one sequel as a result. If a movie is popular and enjoyed by fans, that’s enough to consider it a success. Captain America: The Winder Soldier and both Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame have 85%+ scores, and similarly high marks from audiences. I expect this to rocket up the Netflix charts over the weekend here, and I would be surprised if this did not end up becoming one of their most viewed movies by the end of its initial run here. To be clear, critics have normally liked the Russo’s work in the Marvel universe.

Review By: Jonathan W. Hickman. Film Details: Directors: Anthony Russo and Joe Russo. Cast: Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Billy Bob Thornton, ...

One frustrating aspect of “The Gray Man” is the fight sequences. Comparisons to “John Wick” here expose the lack of weight of these fight sequences. I suspect we will see more of him in the inevitable “Gray Man” sequel and other English language Hollywood projects. Where Wick appears to be delivering (and taking) blows, the punches thrown in “The Gray Man” don’t seem to have a visceral impact. Still, the way the camera ramps up and ramps down is distracting. Few would argue that she was one of the best things, if not the best thing, about the last Bond film, “No Time To Die.” That sequence in Havana was terrific, causing fans to swoon. And if you turn off your moral compass, there’s fun to be had with “The Gray Man.” Obviously, viewers shouldn’t dwell too much on the efficacy of any decision made by the characters in “The Gray Man.” It would be impossible to make perfect sense of any one motivation. If only we got more elegance and less barbaric action sequences, “The Gray Man” would have been a far better movie. And where their last movie, 2021’s drug drama “Cherry,” failed to resonate, a return to the action genre definitely agrees with the twosome. The set-up for “The Gray Man” is excellent. Both men were part of a top-secret program led by the surly Fitzroy (a gray man himself, Billy Bob Thornton) that takes criminals and puts them to work as covert operatives.

Mission briefing. The Gray Man is the latest action/thriller Netflix original, starring Ryan Gosling and directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, the men behind ...

The music is overbearing, most likely to compensate for the lack of depth and drama the plot is providing. Not only terrible in itself, but terrible in that it implies this is what Netflix want to give mainstream audiences. Beyond these glaring issues with the story and editing, a lot of the film I found to be either unremarkable or lame. The film has a weird habit of filling the entire screen with the name of wherever it decides to warp you next, which is what happens here. I can’t remember if they explained this through some story element, but why can Six hear that person he talks to in the start of the first action scene perfectly, while the party and fireworks make things inaudible and muffled? In a similar scene in The Gray Man, I strained to maintain focus. Not only is the rhythm of the editing too fast within the scenes themselves, but the way each of them are connected to the other lacks cohesion. The movie really did a marvelous job of making the setting an absolute moot point. The first scene in this movie features Six, imprisoned for murder, talking with Thornton’s character, who offers him a way out by working for the CIA. We obviously don’t know who either of the characters are at this point and the scene doesn’t do much to fill us in, or at least, not in any interesting way. In the scene just before, we learn that Six will have to start working for this org, right? As I mentioned in the summary, Six finds out from his target that his employers can’t be trusted, which sets him on a path of discovery. A CIA agent going by the code name Six (Ryan Gosling) is having a grand old time killing bad guys and being a secret agent man.

The Russo brothers direct Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans in this generic spy thriller.

Gosling is watchable enough to make it work, and you’re mildly rooting for him to win, but he feels like a blank slate a lot of the time, and the one-liners (this script is full of them) just sort of fall out of his mouth and hang in the air. While Gosling’s character is given a token motivation late in the movie to explain some of his actions, and the actor is physically impressive in the role, he also plays Gentry so cool that he’s almost comatose at times. Seriously, this is one of those movies where everyone can get anywhere in the world in five minutes. Thornton adds his natural eccentricity to his role and gets to do a little more with his character, but almost everyone else suffers by comparison. With a reported cost of $200 million, it’s the most expensive film produced by Netflix to date, and the film—loosely based on the first of a series of novels by author Mark Greaney—certainly looks like all the money is up there on the screen. Going on the run with only the liaison for his last mission (de Armas) helping him, Gentry must expose Carmichael, outwit Hansen, and rescue the only people he cares about before it’s too late.

Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans face off in this globetrotting spy movie from the directors of Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame.

Kudos to the filmmakers, by the way, for those florid Evil Dead-like establishing shots shot from a drone, which capture large swaths of the city and shake things up from the usual. Promoted as Netflix’s most expensive movie to date, The Gray Man is undeniably polished and entirely engrossing, though like most of the streaming service’s offerings, it feels more like disposable entertainment than event cinema. (See previous articles for more details on The Gray Man’s shooting locations in Prague). This slam-bang sequence, largely accomplished using practical effects outside of shots of Prague architecture being smashed up to pieces, is beautifully choreographed and executed, and easily the film’s biggest highlight. Twenty years after he’s recruited, Six finds himself in Bangkok and assigned to take out a target by slick new CIA honcho Denny Carmichael ( Regé-Jean Page) before said target can sell off valuable government data. Still, one might wish this real-life spy movie took things more seriously than a comic book blockbuster; The Gray Man’s destructive action sequences seem to unfold without much consequence, while its characters never miss an opportunity to make a lighthearted quip.

Much like Brad Pitt before him, Ryan Gosling keeps falling into Hollywood's “cool guy” trap.

He’s pulled off the taciturn heroes of Drive, Blade Runner 2049, and First Man, but also the shambling, overconfident private detective Holland March in The Nice Guys, the scumbag trader Jared Vennett in The Big Short, and the kind-hearted but awkward Lars of Lars and the Real Girl. He was at his least interesting as a do-gooder cop in Gangster Squad, and that’s what The Gray Man recalled for me above all. Given that the government honed him as a “gray man” who could blend into the background of any assignment, he spends the majority of the movie glowering and mumbling when he’s not being tossed into another CGI-powered combo of running, jumping, and shooting. In return, he delivers the all-purpose steely charm required of him, but there’s no passion behind it. The actor he’s frequently reminded me of is Brad Pitt, who catapulted to fame in the early ’90s with striking work in Thelma and Louise, bolstered by his chiseled face. One of his best-remembered films remains the taut 2011 thriller Drive, in which he played an unnamed stunt driver who is cool behind the wheel but monosyllabic in conversation. In First Man, he portrayed the astronaut Neil Armstrong as prickly and standoffish, far more ready to face his work than any interpersonal relationship.

Action, action and more action in new Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans Netflix movie "The Gray Man"

There should be some real electricity seeing Gosling and Evans duke it out in a water fountain, but it is oddly underwhelming — especially after some of the film's superb actions sequences. (And for those counting, Gosling also gets one shirtless scene where displays his impressive chest; it is the same number of times he is called a "Ken doll." But as exhilarating — or as exhausting — as "The Gray Man" is, the film strains credibility as Six survives everything he encounters. As Carmichael, Regé-Jean Page is as petty as he is pretty. It is a big, noisy, explosive adrenaline rush — a live-action spin on that old "MAD" magazine comic, "Spy vs. But mostly, the film is one action set piece after another after another.

How does Netflix's 'The Gray Man' stack up against Mark Greaney's novel? We've got everything you need to know about 'The Gray Man' book ending here.

Court doesn’t have much time to rest, as Marc Laurent — the Monsieur Laurent of LaurentGroup — arrives at the château in his helicopter. By the time Court arrives in Normandy, Phillip has been shot dead by a sniper while trying to prevent Claire from escaping the compound to alert the police, and the Gray Man has amassed enough wounds to need a medicinal cocktail of blood, dextrose, narcotics, and amphetamines to make it the last few miles to the château. After Court refuses Fitzroy’s offer to set up another extraction, the handler reveals that the “Nigerians” — in actuality, mercenaries hired by LaurentGroup — are holding Phillip and his family in Normandy and will kill them if Court isn’t dead within the next 48 hours. Greaney’s 2009 novel follows Courtland “Court” Gentry — aka the Gray Man, a former CIA operative who now works as a hired killer, trying to stay one step ahead of his former allies, who have orders to shoot him on sight. He’s arranged for Fitzroy’s son, Phillip, to be kidnapped — along with Phillip’s wife, Elise, and their 8-year-old twin daughters, Claire (Julia Butters) and Kate — and held at Château Laurent in Normandy. The family is as good as dead, unless Fitzroy complies. The primary antagonist refers to Nigerians as “savages” twice, and his statement goes unchallenged, both by the other characters and by the text as a whole.

Pitting Court Gentry (Ryan Gosling) and Lloyd Hansen (Chris Evans) against each other in front of an ornate French fountain was quite the choice for the film's ...

It all leads to the mess that The Gray Man sees its characters at the heart of, as the ambitious Denny Carmichael gets both Fitzroy and Cahill out of CIA leadership. Speaking of which, there are plenty of consequences to go around in this universe, but all of that naturally depends on how well this first Sierra Six adventure does with the crowd. If you’re hungry for more knowledge, our last offering is this rundown of what we knew about The Gray Man, prior to actually seeing the film. Joe Russo: It seemed, yeah…we struggled over that for a long, long time…Seemed too, it just, again, like, we, we used to always say this with the Marvel work, you know, there has to be stakes, you know what I'm saying? You’ll notice that we’ve barely mentioned Chris Evans’ Lloyd Hansen, the Gray Man villain critics can’t stop talking about, in our examination of this ending. As both know what really happened throughout this entire CIA shit show, they’re pretty much public enemies #1 and #2. Or at least, that would be the official viewpoint of the two parties that have the most to lose from this mess. One could say it’s a small price to pay for backing Suzanne’s story that Lloyd Hansen was behind every single screwup we saw in The Gray Man. However, it’s a price that’s soon voided out. However, there are two conditions: Court goes back to prison, and the niece of his late mentor, Donald (Billy Bob Thornton), is placed under CIA lock and key. Should you want to know more about the movie without spoilers, read our official review of The Gray Man. Otherwise, let the madness begin, starting with what happened at the end of Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans’ insane confrontation. Pitting Court Gentry (Ryan Gosling) and Lloyd Hansen (Chris Evans) against each other in front of an ornate French fountain was quite the choice for the film’s final fight. If you haven’t watched the movie yet and want to go in cold, this is the point of no return. Simultaneously, the tracks to the future are laid pretty effectively, as Ryan Gosling protagonist Court Gentry has been mixing it up with his enemies for 11 books, with a 12th on the way.

Netflix's next big new July move is “The Gray Man,” a CIA thriller film starring Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans. Sadly, it's not good.

Meanwhile, “The Gray Man” seems destined to the same fate. Even “Bridgerton” and “Squid Game” may prove to be fluke hits. (Disney+ and HBO Max are the main players here, but even Peacock and Paramount+ immediately conjure images of NBC comedies and “Star Trek” respectively.) But after coming face-to-face with large-scale streamers that bring a defined brand to the table, Netflix's lack of a defined lane has become a detriment. This means in a way it is also the perfect Netflix film: something that looks like other things you like to watch, without actually demanding you watch it. Leading man Gosling has never had much of a defined personality, but here he fades into the background of his own movie.

If you're ready for more Ryan Gosling on your screen, you'll want to watch The Gray Man. Is the movie streaming on Amazon Prime Video?

It takes subscribers away from Netflix. There may be a DVD release, though. That’s the only place to stream it online right now. It is currently out in some theaters (with a limited release), but it’s also headed to a streaming platform.

Chris Evans' Lloyd Hansen is up to the task, alerting some of the world's deadliest assassins and tracking his movements. It's a wild ride but one of the film's ...

He even went as far as to say that the action genre was “probably what made me fall in love with movies.” Six began to suspect that his father was becoming increasingly hostile towards his brother, believing that it would be him or his father. At the beginning of the movie, we see Donald Fitzroy (played by Billy Bob Thornton) visiting Six in prison and offering him a lifeline.