The Gray Man Review: Gosling & Evans Deliver In Fun Action Franchise Starter
Netflix's latest attempt at the action movie blockbuster is The Gray Man, which is based on Mark Greaney's 2009 spy thriller novel. For The Gray Man, directors Anthony and Joe Russo re-team with a few of their Marvel Cinematic Universe collaborators, including writers Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, as well as Captain America himself Chris Evans. For their second directorial effort since closing out the MCU's Phase 3 with Avengers: Endgame, the Russos assembled a star-studded cast: Ryan Gosling, Ana de Armas, Regé-Jean Page, Billy Bob Thornton and Dhanush. The Gray Man is a spiritual throwback to 80s and 90s action movies, with pulse-pounding fight scenes, delightfully cheesy dialogue, and a wickedly fun villain.
In The Gray Man, Gosling stars as action hero Sierra Six, a member of a covert team within the CIA made up of former criminals recruited by Donald Fitzroy (Thornton) to carry out off-the-books assassinations. When Six is enlisted by the CIA's Denny Carmichael (Page) to eliminate a target, the mission turns out to be more complicated than expected. Six is forced to go on the run, leaving Carmichael to call in the psychopathic mercenary Lloyd Hansen (Evans). Six calls in favors from old friends like former CIA ally Margaret Cahill (Alfre Woodard), and gets help from CIA agent Dani Miranda (de Armas) in order to survive all the killers Hansen drafts to hunt him, including the formidable Avik San (Dhanush). Though Six is one of the CIA's best, it remains to be seen if he'll be able to escape the situation with his life and rescue Fitzroy's niece Claire (Julia Butters) in the process.
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