The Gray Man

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 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.

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.

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?

"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."

Lloyd kidnaps Fitzroy's niece, Claire (Julia Butters), and uses her as leverage against Fitzroy and Six, since he looked after her when Margaret Cahill (Alfre ...

Before Lloyd figures out Six’s plan, he starts to get Fitzroy and Claire out of the mansion. He reaches Croatia (which, BTW, you’ve no way of telling because the cut is so bizarre that there’s not even a hint of Avik or Six or Dani going from Vienna to Croatia) and hands over the drive to Lloyd. Under the guise of getting captured, Six and Dani start to clear the soldiers patrolling the perimeter of the mansion in which Fitzroy and Claire are being held hostage. She explains that now Lloyd is going to posthumously take the fall for everything that happened in the movie. Lloyd kidnaps Fitzroy and tells him that he is going to throw every mercenary in the world in Six’s general direction until he yields. Six is going to act as a witness while she holds Claire hostage (this girl just can’t catch a break from this endless loop of getting kidnapped). She says that once that’s over, Six is going to go back to jail, and if he behaves, she’ll let him out to go on some missions. Six says he is going to hold onto the drive until he gets Fitzroy and Claire out of danger. And since Four tried to sell all of this information to the highest bidder, Carmichael got him killed. The CIA takes over the scene, and when they find out that the necklace is missing, Carmichael panics and calls Six, who denies that he has the locket (with a drive in it) with him. He mails the drive to an undisclosed location and calls up Fitzroy (who’s in Baku) to tell him what he knows about Carmichael. And he predicts that after what he has done, he is going to come after him next. Lloyd kidnaps Fitzroy’s niece, Claire (Julia Butters), and uses her as leverage against Fitzroy and Six, since he looked after her when Margaret Cahill (Alfre Woodard) commanded him to. And that he’s probably going to kill Six next. And when he goes completely off script in order to get the job done, he finds out about the CIA’s deepest, darkest secret.

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.

On the other side, the critics score is all the way down at 50%. That's a pretty big gulf, but also similar to other big blockbuster movies that haven't fared ...

But now the tables have turned and Six is the target, hunted across the globe by Lloyd Hansen (Chris Evans), a former cohort at the CIA, who will stop at nothing to take him out. "Consider every kind of espionage narrative trope as part of a checklist and The Gray Man will likely cross it off at some point. "The Gray Man sees Marvel favorites Anthony and Joe Russo return to the world of blockbuster movie-making.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

This week, The Gray Man — Avengers: Endgame directing duo Anthony Russo and Joe Russo's espionage action thriller starring Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, ...

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Netflix's 'The Gray Man' seems poised for sequels and prequels, starring Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans. Here's what we know about 'The Gray Man 2.'

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.

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.