The Gray Man
RT Audience Score: 91%
Awards & Nominations: NA
The Gray Man has the star-studded outline of an entertaining action thriller, but it’s filled in with lukewarm leftovers from far better films.
Add this one to your queue with confidence, action fans: The Gray Man has a great cast, exciting set pieces, and a solid story.
When the CIA’s most skilled mercenary—whose true identity is known to none—accidentally uncovers dark agency secrets, a psychopathic former colleague puts a bounty on his head, setting off a global manhunt by international assassins. Based on the novel by Mark Greaney.
Tagline
Production Company(ies)
AGBO, Columbia Pictures, Denver & Delilah Films, Netflix, New Regency, Roth Kirschenbaum Films
Distributor
Netflix
(Originating Distributor)
Release Date:
07-15-2022
Release Type
STREAMING, STREAMING (NETFLIX), THEATRICAL, THEATRICAL (LIMITED)
Filming Location(s)
Los Angeles, California, United States; Long Beach, California, United States; Prague, Czech Republic; France
MPAA / Certificate
PG-13
Year of Release
2022
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Color:Color
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Sound mix:Dolby Atmos, Dolby, Dolby Surround 7.1
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Aspect ratio:2.39 : 1
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Runtime:2 h 2 m
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Language(s):English
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Country of origin:United States
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Release date:Jul 22, 2022
Genre(s)
Action, Animation, Literary Adaptation, Music, Sport, Spy, Thriller, War
Keyword(s)
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Worldwide gross: NA
Worldwide gross (inflation-adjusted): NA
Worldwide gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): NA
Worldwide tickets sold (est.): NA
US/Canada gross: NA
US/Canada gross (inflation-adjusted): NA
US/Canada gross ranking (inflation-adjusted): NA
US/Canada opening weekend:
US/Canada opening weekend (inflation-adjusted): NA
US/Canada opening weekend ranking (inflation-adjusted): NA
Budget and Earnings Details
Production budget (est.): $200,000,000
Production budget (inflation-adjusted): $200,000,000
Production budget ranking: 108
Marketing and distribution budget (inflation-adjusted est.): $107,700,000
Box office net earnings to date (inflation-adjusted est.): NA
ROI to date (est.): NA
ROI ranking: NA
Six
Chris Evans
Lloyd Hansen
Ana de Armas
Dani Miranda
Regé-Jean Page
Carmichael
Billy Bob Thornton
Wagner Moura
Director(s)
Anthony Russo, Joe Russo
Writer(s)
Anna Waterhouse, Christopher Markus, Joe Shrapnel, Stephen McFeely
Executive(s)
Roth Kirschenbaum Films:
Zack Roth
(Production Exec)
Columbia Pictures:
Palak Patel
(Studio Exec)
Film Festivals
Awards & Nominations
NA
Academy Awards
All Critics (246) | Top Critics (65) | Fresh (112) | Rotten (134)
The most glam dad-enjoys-while-folding-laundry movie ever.
August 4, 2022 | Rating: 3/5
Adam Kempenaar
Filmspotting
TOP CRITIC
A blast… The film works because Brad Pitt is a really funny and engaging guy.
August 2, 2022 | Rating: A
tt stern-enzi
WXIX-TV (Cincinnati, OH)
TOP CRITIC
A $200,000,000 snooze fest.
July 30, 2022 | Rating: 2/5
Larushka Ivan-Zadeh
metro.co.uk
TOP CRITIC
All that effort and all that money should have paid for a better screenplay.
July 26, 2022 | Rating: 2.5/4
Robert Levin
Newsday
TOP CRITIC
Chris Evans, Ryan Gosling and Dhanush fight for your attention. The plot is clichéd, but the Russo brothers deliver a film packed with action, charismatic actors and beautiful locations.
July 23, 2022
Anupama Chopra
Film Companion
TOP CRITIC
It is a big, noisy, explosive adrenaline rush — a live-action spin on that old “MAD” magazine comic, “Spy vs. Spy” — and about as deep.
July 22, 2022
Gary M. Kramer
Salon.com
TOP CRITIC
The Gray Man strips the best qualities of everyone involved — there’s a lack of personality to the filmmaking, and it’s big for the sake of being big — leaving behind a tasteless pudding that reeks of a cashgrab.
August 10, 2022
Akhil Arora
Gadgets360
What ensues is overly busy, dumb and riddled with cringingly glib dialogue.
August 10, 2022 | Rating: C
Al Alexander
The Patriot Ledger
Here we go again with another substandard Netflix action film that seems to take pride in its display of stunning mediocrity.
August 9, 2022
Louisa Moore
Screen Zealots
For me this is like time past, but like the good kind.
August 8, 2022
Achara Kirk
GET Jaby
I really enjoyed that… I thought it was a lot of fun.
August 8, 2022
Jaby Koay
GET Jaby
The Gray Man is a worthy entertaining flick with enthralling action pieces, nice European cities and two handsome toughies that sustain their handsomeness ever after beating each other up across the globe.
August 5, 2022 | Rating: 7/10
Alejandro Turdo
Hoy Sale Cine…
Synopsis (Warning: Spoilers!)
In 2021, on a mission in Bangkok, the murderer, “Sierra Six,” is working with fellow CIA agent Dani Miranda to assassinate a target suspected of selling off national security secrets. He is unable to do so stealthily without harming civilians and attacks the target directly, mortally wounding him. Before dying, the target reveals that he worked in the Sierra program as Sierra Four, and hands Six an encrypted drive detailing the corruption of CIA official Denny Carmichael, who is the lead agent on the assassination mission. Carmichael is elusive about the true purpose of the mission and the contents of the drive when confronted by Six, and Six refuses evacuation from Bangkok with Carmichael’s men, calling a now-retired Fitzroy to request extraction.
Carmichael hires mercenary Lloyd Hansen, a former CIA agent kicked out of the agency for his sociopathic tendencies, to track down Six and retrieve the drive. Hansen does so by kidnapping Fitzroy’s niece Claire, forcing Fitzroy to authorize Six’s murder by the extraction team. However, Six kills them and escapes.
Frustrated, Carmichael sends his subordinate Suzanne Brewer to oversee Hansen and keep him in line. Hansen keeps Claire hostage in a mansion in Croatia, where he has based his operations. Hansen also puts a bounty on Six’s head to attract mercenaries and assassins to hunt him down. Six heads to Vienna to find Claire’s pacemaker’s serial number from Laszlo Sosa, but Sosa betrays him for the bounty. Six escapes just as Hansen arrives with his team, and is rescued by Miranda. Miranda’s reputation is in tatters following the Bangkok mission and she initially plans to bring him in to salvage her career at the CIA. Six convinces her to drive him to Cahill’s apartment in Prague, where she decrypts the drive, which reveals the extent of Carmichael’s corruption on behalf of a mysterious benefactor working for a shadow government.
Hansen sends several teams of assassins to Cahill’s home, and the terminally ill Cahill blows up her home to give Six and Miranda a chance to escape. Six is arrested and handcuffed in the square. A shootout in the streets of Prague follows and Six escapes on a tram. A long chase and gun battle ensues, and Six is saved by Miranda, in Cahill’s bulletproof car. The two infiltrate a hospital to track down Claire through the wireless signal broadcast from her pacemaker. The mercenary “Lone Wolf” steals the drive from them, knocking them out, and brings the drive to Hansen.
Six and Miranda follow the pacemaker to Hansen’s base. Miranda creates a distraction while Six infiltrates the mansion and rescues Fitzroy and Claire. Fitzroy is mortally wounded as they flee and sacrifices himself in a failed attempt to kill Hansen. Miranda knocks out Hansen’s men, but Lone Wolf narrowly escapes. He defeats Miranda in a fight but gives her the drive, having become disgusted with Hansen’s willingness to kill children and his lack of morals.
Hansen manages to take Claire hostage and drags her into a hedge maze. After a standoff, Hansen lets go of Claire and fights with Six. Before Six can kill him, Hansen is shot and killed by Brewer, who tells Six that she plans to pin Carmichael’s actions on Hansen in order to gain leverage over him. Furthermore, Brewer pledges Claire’s safety but only if Six continues to work for the CIA. Six and Miranda are forced to co-operate in the cover-up, where ultimately no action is taken against Carmichael. After the debriefing at the CIA headquarters, Miranda threatens to kill Carmichael if any harm comes to Claire. Six escapes custody and frees Claire, who is being held at a secret location.
Trivia
Goofs
When leaving Bangkok, Six takes a tuk tuk for Chiang Mai. Chiang Mai is located 683 km north of Bangkok. There is no way he could cover this distance in such a short time to the extraction point in an overnight ride.
Quotes
NA
Credits
Alternate Versions
NA
Soundtracks
Lochloosa
Written by JJ Grey (as John Grey Higginbotham)
Performed by JJ Grey & Mofro
Courtesy of Fog City Records
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Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gray_Man_(2022_film)
Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_gray_man_2022
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