Reviews for Netflix's The Gray Man Aren't So Black And White
Reviews for The Gray Man are in and the critical consensus is decidedly mixed. Directors of some of the highest-grossing movies of all time like Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, Joe and Anthony Russo return to the action genre for their adaptation of the first novel in Mark Greaney's spy series of the same name. This is the biggest budgeted Netflix original movie to date, costing in the ballpark of $200 million, and the Russo Brothers enlisted an A-list cast including Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Regé-Jean Page, Dhanush, and Billy Bob Thornton to put it together and to potentially start an MCU-style shared universe.
The Gray Man follows Gosling's globe-trotting assassin Court Gentry, aka Sierra Six, a former convict recruited by the CIA. On a mission in Bangkok, the killer for hire finds himself in possession of a thumb drive full of agency secrets and goes AWOL. This triggers the CIA into sending the sociopathic Lloyd Hansen (Chris Evans) on an obsessive hunt to track Sierra Six down and kill him. The result is a series of explosions and action setpieces as Gosling fights his way through a series of hired killers, aided only by fellow CIA operative Dani Miranda, played by de Armas.
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Ahead of The Gray Man's theatrical release on July 15, followed by its Netflix release on July 22, many publications have been putting out early reviews of the film. While most have praise for the two leads, especially Chris Evans' turn as the uncharacteristically unhinged villain, many reviewers are split as to whether the plot and cheesy one-liners are a fun throwback to action films from the 80s, or whether they're just lazy and
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