The Gray Man

2022 2h 8m EN

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6.9

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★6.9TMDB · 4,509

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Synopsis

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When a shadowy CIA agent uncovers damning agency secrets, he's hunted across the globe by a sociopathic rogue operative who's put a bounty on his head.

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Cast

Ryan Gosling
Six
Chris Evans
Lloyd Hansen
Ana de Armas
Dani Miranda
Billy Bob Thornton
Fitzroy
Jessica Henwick
Suzanne Brewer
Dhanush
Avik San
Alfre Woodard
Margaret Cahill
Regé-Jean Page
Carmichael

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Joe Russo
Writers: Joe Russo, Darrin Denlinger, Anthony Liberatore
Languages: Czech, English, French, German, Thai
Countries: United States of America

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MONEY

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Budget of $200M — blockbuster tier. Only ~1% of films ever made reach this.

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MONEY

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Earned back only 0% of its budget on initial theatrical — a commercial disappointment on release.

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3 / 8

ERA

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Released 4 years ago.

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4 / 8

WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 5 languages: Czech, English, French, German, Thai.

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5 / 8

CAST

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438+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Joe Russo, shot by Stephen F. Windon. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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7 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Henry Jackman. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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8 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Pietro Scalia shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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Cinephile deep dive

The take

Joe Russo directs. Stephen F. Windon behind the camera. Henry Jackman scores. Pietro Scalia cuts. A commercial under-performer on release. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in Czech, English, French, German, Thai.

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Things worth knowing

1Budget of $200M — blockbuster tier. Only ~1% of films ever made reach this.
2Earned back only 0% of its budget on initial theatrical — a commercial disappointment on release.
3Released 4 years ago.
4Dialogue crosses 5 languages: Czech, English, French, German, Thai.
5438+ people credited in cast and crew — a small city's worth of labour.
6Directed by Joe Russo, shot by Stephen F. Windon. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
7Original score by Henry Jackman. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
8Editor Pietro Scalia shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
9Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans and Ana de Armas carry the top of the cast.
10IMDB entry: tt1649418 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
11Classified under 8 themes, including "central intelligence agency (cia)", "based on novel or book", "hitman", "kidnapping".

The technical file

Cinematography: Stephen F. Windon
Original score: Henry Jackman
Editing: Pietro Scalia
Production design: Dennis Gassner
Costume design: Judianna Makovsky
Makeup / hair: Jay Wejebe
VFX supervisor: Laurens Ehrmann
Sound: Mark Binder
Stunt coordinator: Jack Gill
Runtime: 128 min · 2h 8m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $200,000,000
Box office: $454,023
Return: 0% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): PG-13
IMDB: The Gray Man (2022)

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Chris Sawin2022-07-15
★ 4/10
The Gray Man has some impressive action sequences, but is such a lackluster film experience overall. Most of the action is bogged down by sloppy editing where a complete absence of proper lighting ruins whatever positives the film had going for it. The talented cast does what they can with their roles, but it’s not enough to make the film entertaining. Ana de Armas is mostly forgettable apart from shooting tranquilizer darts in guy’s butts and firing a rocket launcher a few times. Tedious and sluggish with punches and kicks and kills that barely satisfy, The Gray Man is a dead on arrival action thriller that squanders potential almost as often as Ryan Gosling chews gum. Full Review: https://hubpages.com/entertainment/The-Gray-Man-2022-The-Yawn-Ultimatum
Manuel São Bento2022-07-20
★ 7/10
MORE SPOILER-FREE REVIEWS @ https://www.msbreviews.com/ "The Gray Man holds the energetic, over-the-top, explosive action from the Russo Brothers, which should be enough to entertain the vast majority of the audience throughout the admittedly generic, predictable screenplay. Excessive camera movement occasionally sabotages the fantastic fight choreography, but nothing that lasts too long. Regardless of the valuable technical aspects, the success of this movie is inherently connected to the superb performances from a cast packed with chemistry. Ryan Gosling demonstrates that he knows how to play an action protagonist, Chris Evans clearly has tons of fun playing a "bad guy" full of personality, Ana de Armas captivates as the sidekick badass, while Jessica Henwick is underused - the actress has done more than enough in her career to portray bigger roles. See it in the theater, if possible." Rating: B
CinemaSerf2022-07-22
★ 5/10
Well at least this latest Netflix effort gives us some eye candy in the form of the annoyingly ageless Ryan Gosling and a slightly hammy Chris Evans, but the rest of it is derivative even by their standards. We start with a young man being released from prison by "Fitzroy" (Tommy Lee Jones) so he can join an elite CIA hit squad. Named "Six" (Gosling), his first mission is straight out of the "Mechanic" (2011) only it's an erstwhile colleague that he is sent to eradicate. A task that proves remarkably simple but is accomplished not before, luckily for us, he is given a micro chip that illustrates his new boss "Carmichael" (an underwhelming Regé-Jean Page) is about as crooked as the day is long. There now ensues a series of long "John Wick" style combat scenes as try as this hugely well equipped CIA operation does, it simply cannot capture "Six". Desperate times call for desperate measures so "Hansen" (Evans) is drafted in to finally do the business by kidnapping the easily accessible niece of the now retired TLJ, and using her as leverage he tries a different tack. Wholesale slaughter follows and along the way some lovely buildings in Prague and Croatia become neat piles of rubble; the local citizens are dropping like flies sending those in the CIA PR department into spasms... Well you get the gist. The always over-rated Ana de Armas sports quite a colourful suit at the start, but as usual her contributions are pretty unimpressive; TLJ is nowhere near his best and the thing lurches on towards a really inevitable conclusion that stretched out the thinnest of plots and showed a really disconcerting image of a CIA completely out of control, running rampage - and that scenario isn't remotely plausible. There is plenty of car-chasing, gunfights and pyrotechnic displays but that's nowhere near enough to compensate for a pretty unremarkable script and an amalgam of stories we have seen done better elsewhere, many times before. That said, if you get a chance to see it during it's limited cinema run then I'd give it a go. On television this is just subscription fodder with A-list cows that you will instantly forget.