The Gray Man

The film, which stars Ryan Reynolds as Court Gentry (aka Six) and Chris Evans as Lloyd Hansen, just dropped today (July 22) on Netflix. It's gotten a lot of ...

With The Gray Man out of the way, there are 10 more Gentry novels for adaptation. The next chapter in the series is titled On Target, and it finds Gentry forced into a mission against his will. So, since The Gray Man doesn't end with a tag that says "Court Gentry will return in The Gray Man 2" or some similarly-titled movie, it's hard to know at this stage if Netflix will or won't bring the cast and crew back. Death, taxes and ... The Gray Man 2? The Gray Man's announcement (July 17, 2020) and release date (July 22, 2022) were separated by about two years, but the Covid-19 pandemic may have thrown some delays in there. Of course, there will need to be some new villains for Gentry to fight.

Ryan Gosling (Court Gentry). At the center of The Gray Man is Ryan Gosling's Count Gentry, aka Sierra Six, a CIA black ops operative who becomes the target of ...

Woodard previously worked with the Russos on Captain America: Civil War (she played the grieving mother who approached Tony Stark at MIT), but that was just a small part of her career. The list of Thornton’s best movies features one extraordinary performance after another in films like Sling Blade, Monster’s Ball, Primary Colors, Tombstone and more. And then there is also all that buzz around if he will or will not be the next man to call himself “Bond, James Bond.” With names like Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, and Ana de Armas front and center of the spy thriller book-to-film adaptation, it’s safe to say The Gray Man cast is one remarkable bunch of actors. Despite being best known for playing the fan-favorite hero Captain America throughout the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Evans has proven on more than one occasion that he is well suited to play the bad guy. Anthony and Joe Russo know a thing or two about working with large ensemble casts made of up talented actors — just look at their work on four of the best Marvel movies and it becomes all the more clear.

Beyond teaming with The Russo Brothers, Jackman is known for his work on movies like Kingsman: The Secret Service, X-Men First Class, and Captain Phillips.

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Could Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, and Ana de Armas be back for a sequel to The Gray Man on Netflix? Here's what we know about The Gray Man 2.

If Netflix announces a sequel or spin-off movie based on The Gray Man, we’ll be sure to keep fans updated on all the latest developments. Like with most Netflix titles, the possibility of either getting a sequel in development or expanding the universe depends on its performance. But will they return for a sequel to the surefire hit?

Lloyd kidnaps Fitzroy's niece, Claire (Julia Butters), and uses her as leverage against Fitzroy and Six, since he looked after her when Margaret Cahill (Alfre ...

Before Lloyd figures out Six’s plan, he starts to get Fitzroy and Claire out of the mansion. He reaches Croatia (which, BTW, you’ve no way of telling because the cut is so bizarre that there’s not even a hint of Avik or Six or Dani going from Vienna to Croatia) and hands over the drive to Lloyd. Under the guise of getting captured, Six and Dani start to clear the soldiers patrolling the perimeter of the mansion in which Fitzroy and Claire are being held hostage. She explains that now Lloyd is going to posthumously take the fall for everything that happened in the movie. Lloyd kidnaps Fitzroy and tells him that he is going to throw every mercenary in the world in Six’s general direction until he yields. Six is going to act as a witness while she holds Claire hostage (this girl just can’t catch a break from this endless loop of getting kidnapped). She says that once that’s over, Six is going to go back to jail, and if he behaves, she’ll let him out to go on some missions. Six says he is going to hold onto the drive until he gets Fitzroy and Claire out of danger. And since Four tried to sell all of this information to the highest bidder, Carmichael got him killed. The CIA takes over the scene, and when they find out that the necklace is missing, Carmichael panics and calls Six, who denies that he has the locket (with a drive in it) with him. He mails the drive to an undisclosed location and calls up Fitzroy (who’s in Baku) to tell him what he knows about Carmichael. And he predicts that after what he has done, he is going to come after him next. Lloyd kidnaps Fitzroy’s niece, Claire (Julia Butters), and uses her as leverage against Fitzroy and Six, since he looked after her when Margaret Cahill (Alfre Woodard) commanded him to. And that he’s probably going to kill Six next. And when he goes completely off script in order to get the job done, he finds out about the CIA’s deepest, darkest secret.

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"Brainless" is the word that comes up most often in reviews of "The Gray Man."

That Gosling and Evans sometimes succeed makes "The Gray Man" good enough to rank as watchable. But "The Gray Man," based on 12 bestselling page-turners by Mark Greaney, wants to build a franchise starring Gosling as CIA assassin Sierra Six. "007 was taken," teases Six -- real name Court Gentry (I'm not kidding) -- just to show what kind of franchise Netflix has in mind. -- $200 million (a record for them) to win back audiences like it did with the two-series punch of "Squid Game" and "Stranger Things."

All of the songs featured in the Russo Brothers Netflix movie The Gray Man, including The Black Keys song featured in the credits.

The Black Keys close the film with a catchy song called “Wild Child” in the credits. The song was released in March 2022 and was featured on their eleventh album Dropout Boogie, which was released on May 13. But there’s also a new song by a chart-topping, Grammy-winning rock band that brings the movie to an end.

After a limited theatrical debut, Netflix's newest attempt at building a blockbuster franchise, The Gray Man, has arrived and so far, it's going somewhat ...

There’s too much talent on board for browsing audiences to flick past it, and if it’s entertaining enough for fans, well, it doesn’t really matter what critics think. It became Netflix’s most-viewed original movie by a good margin, and is getting at least one sequel as a result. If a movie is popular and enjoyed by fans, that’s enough to consider it a success. Captain America: The Winder Soldier and both Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame have 85%+ scores, and similarly high marks from audiences. I expect this to rocket up the Netflix charts over the weekend here, and I would be surprised if this did not end up becoming one of their most viewed movies by the end of its initial run here. To be clear, critics have normally liked the Russo’s work in the Marvel universe.

The movie opens in Florida State Prison in 2003, where a man we will later know as Six (Ryan Gosling) is recruited by a man named Donald Fitzroy (Billy Bob ...

So will there be a The Gray Man sequel? Read on for The Gray Man plot summary and The Gray Man ending, explained. In Virginia, Claire finds a note on one of her precious records to “Play me, loud.” She does, and then covers her ears to the sound of all the guards around her being shot. Six manages to break out Fitzroy and Claire, but on the way out, Fitzroy is shot and killed. Suzanne and Denny go to visit Six in that super secure prison, only to discover the guards dead, and Six gone. Directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, with a screenplay by Joe Russo, Christopher Markus, and Stephen McFeely, The Gray Man might just be Netflix’s biggest movie to date.

The new action-thriller—directed by Marvel alums Anthony and Joe Russo, with a screenplay by Joe Russo, Christopher Markus, and Stephen McFeely—is an adaptation ...

Nope! Though we hope there will be more Gray Man on the way soon, the movie ends when it ends. There is not a mid-credits or after-credits scene. That said, the first Gray Man movie already went pretty off-book, so there’s no telling how much the second movie (if it happens) would follow the second book. The Old Man is representative of that. And that certainly leaves the door open for the franchise Netflix is hoping for. So the CIA sends a sociopathic Chris Evans to hunt Gosling down.

Review By: Jonathan W. Hickman. Film Details: Directors: Anthony Russo and Joe Russo. Cast: Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, Billy Bob Thornton, ...

One frustrating aspect of “The Gray Man” is the fight sequences. Comparisons to “John Wick” here expose the lack of weight of these fight sequences. I suspect we will see more of him in the inevitable “Gray Man” sequel and other English language Hollywood projects. Where Wick appears to be delivering (and taking) blows, the punches thrown in “The Gray Man” don’t seem to have a visceral impact. Still, the way the camera ramps up and ramps down is distracting. Few would argue that she was one of the best things, if not the best thing, about the last Bond film, “No Time To Die.” That sequence in Havana was terrific, causing fans to swoon. And if you turn off your moral compass, there’s fun to be had with “The Gray Man.” Obviously, viewers shouldn’t dwell too much on the efficacy of any decision made by the characters in “The Gray Man.” It would be impossible to make perfect sense of any one motivation. If only we got more elegance and less barbaric action sequences, “The Gray Man” would have been a far better movie. And where their last movie, 2021’s drug drama “Cherry,” failed to resonate, a return to the action genre definitely agrees with the twosome. The set-up for “The Gray Man” is excellent. Both men were part of a top-secret program led by the surly Fitzroy (a gray man himself, Billy Bob Thornton) that takes criminals and puts them to work as covert operatives.

Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans and Ana de Armas go head to head in an explosive and expensive thriller from the Russo brothers, on Netflix now.

In the wake of public shootings in the US, Denmark and Norway (and that's just this year) this callous ultraviolence hits different. The quippy banter and sharp action are heightened and stylized, and just a ton of fun. But then there's a huge showdown in the streets of a European city. Maybe I'm squinting too hard to suggest this is Netflix's smartest action film, but it's definitely one of the most fun. On paper, The Gray Man has all the elements of a formulaic spy genre (and I do mean all the elements -- there's about four movies' worth of stuff going on). Thumb drives. That's what sets The Gray Man apart from formulaic plods like Extraction or Amazon's turgid Without Remorse. From the opening scene, in which Gosling goes into battle in a crisp scarlet suit twirling a water pistol, to his silent silhouetted dispatching of a platoon of bodyguards with whatever cutlery comes to hand, the flick has swagger to burn. Rooftop helipads and secure lines and guys making the bullets fall out of a gun before the other guy can shoot him. At least de Armas' appearance in Bond film No Time to Die was essentially a cameo, but this is a waste of the white-hot star of the moment. After 60 years of James Bond on screen, after six (and counting) Mission: Impossible movies, a spy movie hinges on a frickin' thumb drive! "We get it, you're glib," Thornton responds, but as Gosling contemplates a life of murder for the government, his eyes soften mournfully. This rip-roaring and star-powered spy romp from the Russo brothers throws all the money at the screen as Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans go head to head. Following a string of wildly popular but not very good action movies (Red Notice, Extraction), Netflix delivers with The Gray Man, streaming now.

Mission briefing. The Gray Man is the latest action/thriller Netflix original, starring Ryan Gosling and directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, the men behind ...

The music is overbearing, most likely to compensate for the lack of depth and drama the plot is providing. Not only terrible in itself, but terrible in that it implies this is what Netflix want to give mainstream audiences. Beyond these glaring issues with the story and editing, a lot of the film I found to be either unremarkable or lame. The film has a weird habit of filling the entire screen with the name of wherever it decides to warp you next, which is what happens here. I can’t remember if they explained this through some story element, but why can Six hear that person he talks to in the start of the first action scene perfectly, while the party and fireworks make things inaudible and muffled? In a similar scene in The Gray Man, I strained to maintain focus. Not only is the rhythm of the editing too fast within the scenes themselves, but the way each of them are connected to the other lacks cohesion. The movie really did a marvelous job of making the setting an absolute moot point. The first scene in this movie features Six, imprisoned for murder, talking with Thornton’s character, who offers him a way out by working for the CIA. We obviously don’t know who either of the characters are at this point and the scene doesn’t do much to fill us in, or at least, not in any interesting way. In the scene just before, we learn that Six will have to start working for this org, right? As I mentioned in the summary, Six finds out from his target that his employers can’t be trusted, which sets him on a path of discovery. A CIA agent going by the code name Six (Ryan Gosling) is having a grand old time killing bad guys and being a secret agent man.

Much like Brad Pitt before him, Ryan Gosling keeps falling into Hollywood's “cool guy” trap.

He’s pulled off the taciturn heroes of Drive, Blade Runner 2049, and First Man, but also the shambling, overconfident private detective Holland March in The Nice Guys, the scumbag trader Jared Vennett in The Big Short, and the kind-hearted but awkward Lars of Lars and the Real Girl. He was at his least interesting as a do-gooder cop in Gangster Squad, and that’s what The Gray Man recalled for me above all. Given that the government honed him as a “gray man” who could blend into the background of any assignment, he spends the majority of the movie glowering and mumbling when he’s not being tossed into another CGI-powered combo of running, jumping, and shooting. In return, he delivers the all-purpose steely charm required of him, but there’s no passion behind it. The actor he’s frequently reminded me of is Brad Pitt, who catapulted to fame in the early ’90s with striking work in Thelma and Louise, bolstered by his chiseled face. One of his best-remembered films remains the taut 2011 thriller Drive, in which he played an unnamed stunt driver who is cool behind the wheel but monosyllabic in conversation. In First Man, he portrayed the astronaut Neil Armstrong as prickly and standoffish, far more ready to face his work than any interpersonal relationship.

Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans face off in this globetrotting spy movie from the directors of Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame.

Kudos to the filmmakers, by the way, for those florid Evil Dead-like establishing shots shot from a drone, which capture large swaths of the city and shake things up from the usual. Promoted as Netflix’s most expensive movie to date, The Gray Man is undeniably polished and entirely engrossing, though like most of the streaming service’s offerings, it feels more like disposable entertainment than event cinema. (See previous articles for more details on The Gray Man’s shooting locations in Prague). This slam-bang sequence, largely accomplished using practical effects outside of shots of Prague architecture being smashed up to pieces, is beautifully choreographed and executed, and easily the film’s biggest highlight. Twenty years after he’s recruited, Six finds himself in Bangkok and assigned to take out a target by slick new CIA honcho Denny Carmichael ( Regé-Jean Page) before said target can sell off valuable government data. Still, one might wish this real-life spy movie took things more seriously than a comic book blockbuster; The Gray Man’s destructive action sequences seem to unfold without much consequence, while its characters never miss an opportunity to make a lighthearted quip.

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It’s the talking point of most media buzz, and it’s the first thing we should get out of the way: at somewhere around $200 million, The Gray Man (starring Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans) is now Netflix’s most expensive original movie. Scott Stuber, Netflix’s head of global film told The New York Times he’s been hoping to help the company break into big franchise action films since he arrived five years ago. That’s not including a vague CIA chief known as “the old man.” And there are precedents; big movies have paid off in the past. It’s too soon to tell whether this strategy will pay off, but it does suggest a forward-looking film cycle, where Netflix hopes to run several action franchises simultaneously. The budget matters.

Directors Anthony and Joe Russo take viewers to all sorts of glamorous locales, including Prague and Bangkok, while the cast list is packed with famous — and ...

As "The Gray Man" wraps up its story, the screenplay takes one of its most intriguing detours. At this moment, "The Gray Man" becomes a little introspective, showing how government corruption is often swept under the rug in America. After all, this is a country where Richard Nixon was pardoned and the people in charge of torturing suspects after 9/11 received no punishments. The best action sequence in "The Gray Man" comes in the middle of the film, when Gentry has to evade endless waves of trigger-happy mercenaries in Prague. What makes this stretch especially enjoyable is the way it continually escalates the stakes. In "The Gray Man," though, the limitations of a PG-13 rating dull the edges of its supposedly sadistic villain, robbing this scene of much of its impact. One notable downside about "The Gray Man" receiving a PG-13 rating is that Lloyd Hansen's supposed ruthlessness is rarely seen. The best example of what happens when "The Gray Man" lets its hair down comes when Gentry attempts to get a passport picture taken; in the middle of the process, a seemingly helpful photographer pushes a button, and the ground beneath Gentry vanishes. "The Gray Man" features a grim tone, and usually has no time for extreme forms of silliness, although that doesn't mean that there aren't occasional forays into the ridiculous. This is supposed to reveal new depths to "The Gray Man" protagonist, while lending an extra sense of urgency to Claire's plight. Adding insult to injury, after releasing the flash drive, San just walks out of the room, a clumsy and abrupt conclusion that accentuates the awkwardness of this entire sequence. "The Gray Man" establishes Gentry's skills as a mercenary right away. In its most rewarding scenes, "The Gray Man" provides spectacles as impressive as its star-studded cast. Watching the final product, there's no question that a lot of that cash ended up on the screen.

Action, action and more action in new Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans Netflix movie "The Gray Man"

There should be some real electricity seeing Gosling and Evans duke it out in a water fountain, but it is oddly underwhelming — especially after some of the film's superb actions sequences. (And for those counting, Gosling also gets one shirtless scene where displays his impressive chest; it is the same number of times he is called a "Ken doll." But as exhilarating — or as exhausting — as "The Gray Man" is, the film strains credibility as Six survives everything he encounters. As Carmichael, Regé-Jean Page is as petty as he is pretty. It is a big, noisy, explosive adrenaline rush — a live-action spin on that old "MAD" magazine comic, "Spy vs. But mostly, the film is one action set piece after another after another.

The offsite Gray Man experience at San Diego Comic-Con 2022 was a bit too exclusive for fans trying to participate.

The worst part is that the activation is not fully accessible. when the sound is synced up. The footage is also entertaining and interesting…

How does Netflix's 'The Gray Man' stack up against Mark Greaney's novel? We've got everything you need to know about 'The Gray Man' book ending here.

Court doesn’t have much time to rest, as Marc Laurent — the Monsieur Laurent of LaurentGroup — arrives at the château in his helicopter. By the time Court arrives in Normandy, Phillip has been shot dead by a sniper while trying to prevent Claire from escaping the compound to alert the police, and the Gray Man has amassed enough wounds to need a medicinal cocktail of blood, dextrose, narcotics, and amphetamines to make it the last few miles to the château. After Court refuses Fitzroy’s offer to set up another extraction, the handler reveals that the “Nigerians” — in actuality, mercenaries hired by LaurentGroup — are holding Phillip and his family in Normandy and will kill them if Court isn’t dead within the next 48 hours. Greaney’s 2009 novel follows Courtland “Court” Gentry — aka the Gray Man, a former CIA operative who now works as a hired killer, trying to stay one step ahead of his former allies, who have orders to shoot him on sight. He’s arranged for Fitzroy’s son, Phillip, to be kidnapped — along with Phillip’s wife, Elise, and their 8-year-old twin daughters, Claire (Julia Butters) and Kate — and held at Château Laurent in Normandy. The family is as good as dead, unless Fitzroy complies. The primary antagonist refers to Nigerians as “savages” twice, and his statement goes unchallenged, both by the other characters and by the text as a whole.

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Meanwhile, “The Gray Man” seems destined to the same fate. Even “Bridgerton” and “Squid Game” may prove to be fluke hits. (Disney+ and HBO Max are the main players here, but even Peacock and Paramount+ immediately conjure images of NBC comedies and “Star Trek” respectively.) But after coming face-to-face with large-scale streamers that bring a defined brand to the table, Netflix's lack of a defined lane has become a detriment. This means in a way it is also the perfect Netflix film: something that looks like other things you like to watch, without actually demanding you watch it. Leading man Gosling has never had much of a defined personality, but here he fades into the background of his own movie.

Pitting Court Gentry (Ryan Gosling) and Lloyd Hansen (Chris Evans) against each other in front of an ornate French fountain was quite the choice for the film's ...

It all leads to the mess that The Gray Man sees its characters at the heart of, as the ambitious Denny Carmichael gets both Fitzroy and Cahill out of CIA leadership. Speaking of which, there are plenty of consequences to go around in this universe, but all of that naturally depends on how well this first Sierra Six adventure does with the crowd. If you’re hungry for more knowledge, our last offering is this rundown of what we knew about The Gray Man, prior to actually seeing the film. Joe Russo: It seemed, yeah…we struggled over that for a long, long time…Seemed too, it just, again, like, we, we used to always say this with the Marvel work, you know, there has to be stakes, you know what I'm saying? You’ll notice that we’ve barely mentioned Chris Evans’ Lloyd Hansen, the Gray Man villain critics can’t stop talking about, in our examination of this ending. As both know what really happened throughout this entire CIA shit show, they’re pretty much public enemies #1 and #2. Or at least, that would be the official viewpoint of the two parties that have the most to lose from this mess. One could say it’s a small price to pay for backing Suzanne’s story that Lloyd Hansen was behind every single screwup we saw in The Gray Man. However, it’s a price that’s soon voided out. However, there are two conditions: Court goes back to prison, and the niece of his late mentor, Donald (Billy Bob Thornton), is placed under CIA lock and key. Should you want to know more about the movie without spoilers, read our official review of The Gray Man. Otherwise, let the madness begin, starting with what happened at the end of Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans’ insane confrontation. Pitting Court Gentry (Ryan Gosling) and Lloyd Hansen (Chris Evans) against each other in front of an ornate French fountain was quite the choice for the film’s final fight. If you haven’t watched the movie yet and want to go in cold, this is the point of no return. Simultaneously, the tracks to the future are laid pretty effectively, as Ryan Gosling protagonist Court Gentry has been mixing it up with his enemies for 11 books, with a 12th on the way.

In "The Gray Man" on Netflix, Chris Evans and Ryan Gosling make a strong impression. The film is directed by Anthony Rizzo and Joe Russo.

Lloyd's job is to finish six and retrieve the drive anyhow. Callan Mulvey (Dining Car) says he is Sierra Four, and the next target would be six. The film is bold, loud, big and has an adrenaline rush attached to it.

Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans play shadow CIA agents in the fast-paced Netflix spy thriller "Gray Man," which also stars Regé-Jean Page.

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If you're ready for more Ryan Gosling on your screen, you'll want to watch The Gray Man. Is the movie streaming on Amazon Prime Video?

It takes subscribers away from Netflix. There may be a DVD release, though. That’s the only place to stream it online right now. It is currently out in some theaters (with a limited release), but it’s also headed to a streaming platform.

The hottest scenes from Netflix's Russo brothers action thriller, 'The Gray Man,' starring Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans, Ana de Armas, and Regé-Jean Page.

Six and Lloyd aren’t the only two with a charming back and forth. After Six goes through hell and back he finally makes his way to rescue Fitz and Claire, but rather than opt for a dramatic entrance he gently kicks open the door and winks. But the sexiness returns when he gets handcuffed to a bench and later hops over it to hide. Then she shoots him with a dart and pushes him into the trunk like the boss she is. Six is running from the police, which is hot until he gets hit by a car. From the movie that brought you The Red Suit comes The Gray Suit! In present day, Six is wearing a hideous red and black hoodie and looking understandably disheveled after surviving a plane crash. The banter. The action. But he’s still Chris Evans. And when he takes a break to put in a single AirPod and have a little snack, his personality shines through. HOT! Then he disarms his target, flashes a little smile, and does a little Mr. Darcy hand flex before fighting, all while fireworks are going off in the background? As if COURTLAND GENTRY wasn’t a hot enough name people start referring to him as “Sierra Six” and then SIX for short?! Thank you for understanding, and please enjoy the ride!