The Gray Man Review: This action thriller is decent one-time watch if you keep your expectations low
The Gray Man Movie Rating: 2.5 Stars
Just watched The Gray Man movie in Hindi on Netflix. Let’s focus on the complete details, story, positive/negatives and at last my personal view on this movie.
Cast: Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Jessica Henwick, Rege-Jean Page, Billy Bob Thornton, Dhanush, Wagner Moura, Alfre Woodard and Julia Butters
Director: Joe and Anthony Russo
Release Date: 22nd July 2022 on Netflix
Story: Story revolves around Court Gentry (Ryan Gosling) who is a good guy but with a criminal record in the past. CIA agent Fitzroy (Billy Bob Thornton) offers him to work for them which Gentry agrees and become most skilled mercenary known as Sierra Six. He was assigned a task to kill Sierra Four (Callan Mulvey) in Bangkok and found that he has dark secrets about the agency in a pen drive.
Sierra Six kills him and takes the pen drive and runs away without informing her partner Dani Miranda (Ana de Armas) who was allies for the mission. Since the pen drive has national security related information the leader of a secretive organization within the CIA Denny Carmichael (Regé-Jean Page) hires his old colleague and private rogue contract killer Lloyd Hansen (Chris Evans) to neutralize him.
Llyod kidnaps Fitzroy niece Claire (Julia Butters) to get the information about him. Then cat-mouse story begins between them. What are those secrets? Did Lloyd kill Sierra Six and get the proofs? What happened next is all about this movie.
Positives
1. Performances
2. Screenplay
3. Direction
4. Cinematography
Negatives
1. Length
2. Story
3. Music
4. Climax
Durgesh Tiwary’s View: When I watched the trailer of this film planned to watch this movie on premiere day since it is directed by Avengers director and also it has Chris Evans and Dhanush.
When the CIA’s most skilled mercenary known as Court Gentry, aka Sierra Six, accidentally uncovers dark agency secrets, he becomes a primary target and is hunted around the world by psychopathic former colleague Lloyd Hansen and international assassins.
The Russo Brothers (directors Anthony and Joe), widely known for their Marvel films are off the leash. Their heroes though still invincible, can now afford to cause collateral damage unlike the righteous superheroes that cannot harm a fly except for evil aliens. The duo clearly feels liberated and has decided to go as grey as possible. They seem to be particularly obsessed with asset retrieval-kind mercenary themes. Despite having two very popular and good actors on board, the writing doesn’t scratch the surface. Words like ethics, morals, values and corruption are casually thrown around without much emphasis on substance.
The Gray Man story is itself a big letdown and it’s highly predictable. When you have star actors on board, you need to come up with an extraordinary script, filled with mind-blowing twists and turns. But Russo Brothers choose a simple and familiar cat and mouse game story and shoot it grandly. They failed to amuse the audiences who have a lot of expectations on the film.
The backstory about the dark secrets of the agency could have been shown in detail. Ana de Armas and Dhanush’s roles could have been designed in a good manner, to create much more impact on the story.
The film does have its moments, the chief being a very well-crafted and choreographed tram chase scene in downtown Prague, which is easily the best part of the film. In addition to that is all fight scenes involving Dhanush, which are gritty yet smooth, giving an indication of just what he is capable of, and the cast delivers what they were signed for. My view on this movie Recommended only if you can watch the action movies without much expectation.
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