![]() It’s the true story of Eric Lomax (Colin Firth as an adult and Jeremy Irvine as his younger surrogate in flashbacks), a British soldier captured during World War II who endured some of the most horribly gruelling conditions imaginable as a forced labourer on the Thailand Death Railway. It’s far more personal than epic, showing the scars that some soldiers and prisoners on both sides carry long after the violence and the conflict have ended. An early sequence in Thailand is doused in purples, reds, blues and yellows and is a pleasure to take in.While not without some pacing problems, the life during and after wartime drama The Railway Man works well. The personality of “Gray Man” is contained entirely in its visuals that, in a surely purposeful departure from the title, are boldly colorful. The viewer, meanwhile, longs for Keanu Reeves as John Wick to roll in and kill a dude with a library book. Endless bullets are shot punches are thrown. We’re whisked to Bangkok, Vienna, Berlin and more. A high-speed roller coaster of explosions with no time for anyone to process anything would be OK if “Gray Man” was a lot of fun, but it’s merely a ho-hum travelogue with unremarkable fight scenes. Netflixįurther, the writers deny their characters any development, richness or, really, emotion. Take a drink every time someone says “asset.” Regé-Jean Page and Ana de Armas are at odds as CIA agents. And they have everybody speak in annoying secret-agent government lingo that’s neither creatively stylized nor believable - like a judge yelling “order in the court!” while angrily banging a gavel. Their story is typical, perfunctory spy-thrilled Mad Libs. That would be writers Joe Russo, Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely. The actors, while uniformly bland, are not entirely at fault for their characters’ shortcomings and the overly familiar guy-goes-rogue plot. Six also needs to rescue Fitzroy’s young niece, who has been kidnapped by Hansen. ![]() He’s doggedly pursued around the world by an agent-turned-mercenary named Lloyd Hansen (Evans, choosing nondescript wackiness) and joined for a bit by another wax figure called Dani (Armas doing her best Mrs. Chris Evans plays the villainous Lloyd Hansen. After a questionable new handler (Page) instructs him to kill another agent, Sierra Four, Six discovers his own life is also in danger from the CIA and goes on the run - with damaging intel in tow. When Six is lured into the gig by his handler Donald Fitzroy (Billy Bob Thornton), he’s told, “You’ll exist in the gray.” He carries out secret unsavory missions for the government. James Bond is King Lear next to Sierra Six - played by a cold and demure Gosling - an imprisoned murderer who has his sentence commuted in exchange for becoming a trained underground killer for the CIA. Ryan Gosling plays Sierra Six in Netflix’s “The Gray Man.” Paul Abell/Netflix Yet Netflix dropped a whopping $200 million ($50 million shy of the budget for “No Time To Die”) on the visually grand adaptation of Mark Greaney’s spy novels in hopes that it kicks off a popular movie series along the lines of James Bond, “The Bourne Identity,” “Mission: Impossible” and “John Wick.”īest of luck! That’s an awfully tall order when your film doesn’t have a strong main character. My barista could have been cast as the lead of this action-thriller, and the film would be absolutely no different. You simply cannot believe you’re staring at megastars - so sapped of individuality and charisma they are. Rated PG-13 (intense sequences of violence and strong language).
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