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 Russo brothers' supposed answer to the Bond franchise is a product of popcorn entertainment that is defined by giving the audience want they want and ...

The second is when Ryan (Six) and Chris (Lloyd) fight it out in the climax, and the former is reminded of a traumatic episode from the past, that sort of accentuates his anger. That is not the only “Indian” thing to do. The Gray Man isn’t really about the plot, nor is it about the screenplay. In the prelude, when Fitzroy asks Six to work for the agency as if doing him a favour, it is hard not to be reminded of Martin Scorsese’s The Departed, where Leonard DiCaprio is put through a similar situation, wherein he remains a ghost in the larger scheme of things within the system. A nameless character, Ryan Gosling is hired by Donald Fitzroy (Billy Bob Thornton) as part of CIA’s Sierra programme, that essentially recruits convicted killers with a past, allowing them to secretly work for the agency as skilled assassins. Ryan with a beard and Chris with that awkward moustache try very hard to sell their persona; Sierra Six, a loner who flexes his masculinity to save the day, and Lloyd Hansen as a megalomaniac toxic male.

The Gray Man movie review: The Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans-starrer is only slightly above average, despite its gorgeous locations, massive set pieces and ...

He is also the only one in the movie perhaps who has a strong moral compass, which Russos highlight early on by showing him touching a rudraksh mala, which is considered sacred. He also gets to display his fighting skills as he combats with both Ana de Armas and Gosling in a longish scene. If you really have to boil things down to their basics, there are maybe three or four ingredients that make up this relentless but only slightly above-average action flick; actors who know their job (thank God), slick action moves and a lot of talk over the phone.

Ryan Gosling (Court Gentry). At the center of The Gray Man is Ryan Gosling's Count Gentry, aka Sierra Six, a CIA black ops operative who becomes the target of ...

Woodard previously worked with the Russos on Captain America: Civil War (she played the grieving mother who approached Tony Stark at MIT), but that was just a small part of her career. The list of Thornton’s best movies features one extraordinary performance after another in films like Sling Blade, Monster’s Ball, Primary Colors, Tombstone and more. And then there is also all that buzz around if he will or will not be the next man to call himself “Bond, James Bond.” With names like Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, and Ana de Armas front and center of the spy thriller book-to-film adaptation, it’s safe to say The Gray Man cast is one remarkable bunch of actors. Despite being best known for playing the fan-favorite hero Captain America throughout the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Evans has proven on more than one occasion that he is well suited to play the bad guy. Anthony and Joe Russo know a thing or two about working with large ensemble casts made of up talented actors — just look at their work on four of the best Marvel movies and it becomes all the more clear.

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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Could Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, and Ana de Armas be back for a sequel to The Gray Man on Netflix? Here's what we know about The Gray Man 2.

If Netflix announces a sequel or spin-off movie based on The Gray Man, we’ll be sure to keep fans updated on all the latest developments. Like with most Netflix titles, the possibility of either getting a sequel in development or expanding the universe depends on its performance. But will they return for a sequel to the surefire hit?

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However, if you are in the mood for a no-brainer with some good-looking men and women battling it out like there is no tomorrow, The Gray Man might entertain you. It appears the directors are yet to get over their Marvel days as the scale of action and the destruction that follows rival that of the Marvel flicks. It is hard to keep track of the cities that Six and those pursuing him travel to as the director rushes through the plot, but that barely matters because Russo Brothers throw at you enough action pieces to keep you moderately engaged. The two most anticipated standoffs, between Dhanush’s Lone Wolf and Six, and between Hansen and Six are shot in the dark, taking away much of the fun. When he realizes that the last target that he was ordered was to kill was a man like him, an expendable, off-the book mercenary, and gets possession of a secret document that would exposes his handlers, Six goes on the run. The Gray Man, starring Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Billy Bob Thornton and Dhanush is just what you expect it to be, a mindless and forgettable entertainer, less satisfying than Extraction.

All of the songs featured in the Russo Brothers Netflix movie The Gray Man, including The Black Keys song featured in the credits.

The Black Keys close the film with a catchy song called “Wild Child” in the credits. The song was released in March 2022 and was featured on their eleventh album Dropout Boogie, which was released on May 13. But there’s also a new song by a chart-topping, Grammy-winning rock band that brings the movie to an end.

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Nope! Though we hope there will be more Gray Man on the way soon, the movie ends when it ends. There is not a mid-credits or after-credits scene. That said, the first Gray Man movie already went pretty off-book, so there’s no telling how much the second movie (if it happens) would follow the second book. The Old Man is representative of that. And that certainly leaves the door open for the franchise Netflix is hoping for. So the CIA sends a sociopathic Chris Evans to hunt Gosling down.

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.

Netflix's latest release teams Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas and more for an action spy thriller. However, this star-studded cast isn't given much ...

If you're looking for a mindless summer action flick, then The Gray Man will certainly suffice, with plenty of talented actors and Hollywood magic to keep the story moving along. One of the main issues with The Gray Man is that it doesn't have a compelling villain. Yet, throughout the movie, he's really not that scary, except for a few moments of unexpected torture that feel out of place in a film with mildly violent action sequences and hand-to-hand combat. But although The Gray Man has plenty of talent, the script from Joe Russo, Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely doesn't give them much to work with. However, the final product ends up in somewhat of a gray area (pun intended), without enough substance to make it stand out from past spy thrillers. Flash forward to present day, and Six discovers that he has been charged with killing one of his own, and he believes that he's next.

The movie opens in Florida State Prison in 2003, where a man we will later know as Six (Ryan Gosling) is recruited by a man named Donald Fitzroy (Billy Bob ...

So will there be a The Gray Man sequel? Read on for The Gray Man plot summary and The Gray Man ending, explained. In Virginia, Claire finds a note on one of her precious records to “Play me, loud.” She does, and then covers her ears to the sound of all the guards around her being shot. Six manages to break out Fitzroy and Claire, but on the way out, Fitzroy is shot and killed. Suzanne and Denny go to visit Six in that super secure prison, only to discover the guards dead, and Six gone. Directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, with a screenplay by Joe Russo, Christopher Markus, and Stephen McFeely, The Gray Man might just be Netflix’s biggest movie to date.

Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans and Ana de Armas go head to head in an explosive and expensive thriller from the Russo brothers, on Netflix now.

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. 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. This rip-roaring and star-powered spy romp from the Russo brothers throws all the money at the screen as Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans go head to head. Following a string of wildly popular but not very good action movies (Red Notice, Extraction), Netflix delivers with The Gray Man, streaming now.

This Russo Bros. movie is so chaotic, the incomparable Ana de Armas almost gets lost in it.

The Gray Man doesn’t have much in the way of gray matter, and almost proudly has nothing to say about anything important. He even calls Six a “Ken doll,” which is the kind of meta-joke that makes you want to H-bomb him from orbit twice (is the only way to surely be sure). The second half of the movie, however, tends to forget the first half was witty, and compensates by leaning heavily into the pandemonium. I didn’t like how it gave the incomparable AdA very little to do beyond her role as a plot device (she enjoyed a far more dynamic and memorable action sequence during her brief appearance in No Time to Die), and how the film can be a little too CG-flattened, too hacked up for barbeque in the editing room to be exceptional. Performance Worth Watching: Despite Gosling playing a Man Who Don’t Talk Much and who chews on a toothpick (say it with me: “I drive”), which is one of my favorite modern cinema archetypes, Evans is the only one who’s doing anything sort of original. Sure, at least for the first half, when the action blends smoothly with the rollout of colorful characters, and the snappy dialogue routinely tickles the giggle-cockles. The score gets hyperactive, the stream of endlessly slaughterable grunt-soldier bad guys is utterly inexhaustible and it kind of falls apart for the ending. In BANGKOK, Six is assigned by his CIA superiors Carmichael (Rege-Jean Page) and Suzanne (Jessica Henwick) to, of course, kill a guy. That doesn’t sit well with Six, but too late, the guy tells him this in the space between being fatally stabbed and his journey to the Great Unknown. Around the dead guy’s neck is an encrypted microchip. The Gist: He’s known only as Six (Gosling). The CIA plucked him out of prison and turned him into a remorseless assassin. In a world where “Wick” has become a verb – the capitalized version of it, anyway – it can be a verb in its lowercase form, of course, but less frequently than its use as a noun – comes The Gray Man, a Very Expensive Netflix Action Movie starring Ryan Gosling as a class-A top-shelf mercenary headshotter who gets his 1099s from the CIA. Notable: Actually probably more than notable, but a legit plea to put your eyeballs on this thing: Marvel Cinematic Universe guys Joe and Anthony Russo direct – their second post-MCU outing after 2021 creative flop Cherry – reuniting with their Captain from America, Chris Evans, who plays the most hateable bad guy in recent memory. (Say it with me: “It’s the only way to be sure.”) Lloyd is Six’s antagonist, and he’s so disgusting, you can’t help but laugh.

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.

The thriller stars Ryan Gosling as an ex-CIA agent being hunted by a former colleague (Chris Evans). Netflix starts at $10/month and goes up to $20/month for ...

If you buy them, we may get a small share of the revenue from the sale from our partners. You can watch "The Gray Man" on Netflix in up to 4K quality with Dolby Vision contrast and Dolby Atmos audio. The Standard plan costs $15.49 a month and offer high definition streaming on two screens at once. It costs $20 a month and includes streaming on up to four screens in up to 4K UHD quality. Netflix's Basic plan costs $10 a month and lets you stream in standard definition on one screen at a time. As of writing, the film has a 50% score on review-aggregator Rotten Tomatoes based on 165 reviews from critics.

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It’s the talking point of most media buzz, and it’s the first thing we should get out of the way: at somewhere around $200 million, The Gray Man (starring Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans) is now Netflix’s most expensive original movie. Scott Stuber, Netflix’s head of global film told The New York Times he’s been hoping to help the company break into big franchise action films since he arrived five years ago. That’s not including a vague CIA chief known as “the old man.” And there are precedents; big movies have paid off in the past. It’s too soon to tell whether this strategy will pay off, but it does suggest a forward-looking film cycle, where Netflix hopes to run several action franchises simultaneously. The budget matters.

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.

Watching Ryan Gosling, who has mastered the art of moving from arthouse films to tentpole productions, and Chris Evans, slipping out of his Captain America ...

The Gray Man promises - and tries - to give us the whole world but falls short by many a mile. But watching Ryan Gosling, who has mastered the art of moving from arthouse films to tentpole productions with effort to spare, and Chris Evans, slipping out of his Captain America garb, having a go at each other has its charm. He earns the right to much larger play in future Gray Man films, if and when they are made. The Gray Man is adapted from Mark Greaney's 2009 novel of the same name. The Gray Man has no space for contemplative pauses - that isn't the game that the film is interested in. The flashy action choreography does bear the signature of the Russo brothers but The Gray Man, the most expensive film that Netflix has ever bankrolled, is appreciably undermined by a rather rudimentary spy movie plot.

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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.