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Review | Netflix movie review: The Gray Man – Chris Evans, Ryan Gosling in entertaining action thriller from Avengers: Endgame directors

  • The Russo brothers, who have directed two of the biggest films ever, are back with a new thriller, The Gray Man
  • Ryan Gosling, Chris Evans and Ana de Armas all seem to have fun in this James Bond-like action movie

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Ryan Gosling plays a CIA operative in a still from Netflix movie The Gray Man. Photo: Netflix.

3.5/5 stars

Since Anthony and Joe Russo directed Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, two of the five highest grossing films of all time, they’ve been relatively quiet. Cherry, with Tom Holland, was a feature for Apple TV+ in the early days of that streaming platform; beyond that, they’ve stuck to producing.

But with The Gray Man, a brash, entertaining, all-star thriller based on a book by Mark Greaney, the siblings are back with big-screen spectacle – albeit viewers will see it on a small screen, it being for Netflix.

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Ryan Gosling stars as Court Gentry, a CIA black ops spy and a former jailbird who is recruited by Fitzroy (Billy Bob Thornton) for an operation.

Gentry, a highly skilled operative known as Sierra Six, is in the field when he discovers that his boss, Denny Carmichael (Bridgerton’s Regé-Jean Page), is far from serving his country’s best interests.

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On the run across Europe, with evidence in his pocket, he is pursued by Lloyd Hansen (Chris Evans), a psychopathic private contractor sent by Carmichael. His only ally on the ground is Ana de Armas’ capable agent Dani.

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