There’s so much to say about the adventures and misadventures of Sierra Six that it’s impossible for everything to be squeezed into one single movie. Even with copious, gratuitous action sequences, witty ad-libbing, scorching one-liners, and numerous secret tricks of the CIA trade scattered throughout the film, The Gray Man is not without flaws.Īlthough, if you think about it, that is par for the course in a modern era action hero flick styled as an alchemic mix of James Bond, Jason Bourne, and Ethan Hunt with a smidge of MacGyver. Indeed, there are moments – several actually – where suspension of disbelief is needed to smooth over the plotline.
Based on the Mark Greaney novel of the same name, The Gray Man is Netflix's biggest movie production to date. Heck, even if he had driven from Bangkok to Chiangmai (!) in a tuk-tuk.
Even if he had just left the entire historical centre of Prague in complete ruin. Even if he had just fended off a team of henchmen on a moving airplane. No, scratch that, he looks as if he barely broke a sweat – and if we may add, not so much as a ding on that TAG Heuer Carrera Three Hands he wore throughout. Yet he always manages to escape by the hair of his teeth. From the start to the end of this two-hour caper, Gosling has been chased, beaten, shot at, knifed, ambushed, pepper-sprayed, shot at, trapped underground, handcuffed to a bench and shot at… He plays the CIA-trained assassin codenamed Sierra Six who unexpectedly comes across damning evidence against senior members of the agency, putting him on the run, and triggering a global manhunt by top assassins and mercenaries all over the world. Ryan Gosling plays top CIA assassin Sierra Six in Netflix's The Grey Man. What started out as the usual troubled-secret-agent-gone-rogue kind of story ended up offering viewers a wonderfully refreshing take on the classic action hero trope – and the linchpin behind it all is none other than show lead Ryan Gosling. Shot on a 200 million dollar budget, set over 10 locations, and starring a stellar cast of beautiful people, it is the online streaming platform’s largest movie production to date.
You can’t say it didn’t do its job as a blockbuster spy thriller. Debate all you want about Netflix’s new action flick The Gray Man, but you can’t say it wasn’t an entertaining film.
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