The Gray Man | Film Review
This film came out on Netflix a while ago and was really highly anticipated. Although I didn't love the premise, I'm a fan of the actors involved, so I wanted to see it. When CIA spy Six (Ryan Gosling) discovers agency secrets and goes on the run, he is hunted by rogue operative Lloyd Hansen (Chris Evans). As I said, I didn't love the premise, so it wasn't really a surprise to me that I didn't like the film. For a start, the gratuitous violence gets a bit boring after a while. Fight scenes really make an action film, and fighting for the sake of fighting, which doesn't move the plot forward, just feels like a waste of time. The film has moments of humour, but these lines and quips never feel that funny - especially because the majority of them are used in the film's trailer. I never cared about, or felt invested in, any of the characters. Six was the only character who had anything interesting about him, but even then I didn't care about him as much as...