The Gray Man

Matt Roush says...

After a brief theatrical window, this elaborately chaotic chase thriller arrives on Netflix with much ado about its extravagant budget (reported to be in the $200 million range) making it the streamer’s most expensive movie to date. If mayhem’s your thing, dig in to watch some of the world’s greatest cities—Prague in particular—be reduced to rubble as a CIA assassin known to most as Sierra Six (Ryan Gosling) is targeted by a corrupt boss (an ill-used Regé-Jean Page) for execution. On his trail: Chris Evans as Lloyd Hansen, a mustachioed psychotic contractor who revels in torture and doesn’t blink when kids or other innocent collateral damage are put in peril. In other words: Things go boom. Grim, noisy, relentless and mostly preposterous, like a Bond film on steroids (not in a good way), this film from Anthony and Joe Russo may get plenty of views, but you might end up thinking of all the better, smaller movies that could have been made for this money.

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