The Gray Man (2022)
8/10
It's pure fun thanks to mega-watt star power
2 August 2022
People seriously "reviewing" this are so absurd

From the opening it catches you and it's literally a fun 2 hour roller coaster ride. Ryan Gosling & Chris Evans show off their mega-watt star power albeit totally different ways, a 180 apart from one another. And plz...anyone w/a functional brain should know they are having fun with these roles. They are very aware this is pure entertainment. The story? Minimal to mon-existent and who cares?

I'm so beyond burned out on both DC (all over the place) & Marvel doing the same world ending, universe/multiverse chaos, too much craptastic CGI films over & over....only the culture changes. While it's great to have representation the movies are the same brightly colored film over & over. The Eternals dared to be different & I told myself "you'll hate it" boy was I wrong. The "villains" were generic cgi per usual but the diversity & the cinematography were original and a visual feast, w/Angelina being the weakest character. It wasn't Endgame but I also never checked my watch. The new Thor? Muscle Jane? Ugh. Give me Beta Ray Bill & Enchantress already! It's 4 films in already, more than any other MCEU stand alone character & still no Enchantress. You're lucky the public took to Cate as favorite comic villain Hela brought to life albeit a watered down version of her that Cate was able to elevate.

Back to Gray Man, here our nemesis assassins battle royale spans around the globe, Ryan does all the grunt work while Evans gets underlings to do his dirty work & the cinematography is beautiful and thankfully no Matrix-style fighting, we're pleasantly back to very well choreographed fight scenes.

When fun & movie star power come together for mindless but heckuva entertaining 2 hours. Save your heavy critique for Thor, Guardians Of the Galaxy, Aquaman 2 or Fast And Furious 27.

The Gray Man is if Tom Cruise and MI19 didn't take itself so seriously like it had a "you know what" shoved "you know where"
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