The Gray Man (2022)
Directed by Joe Russo
When a shadowy CIA agent uncovers damning agency secrets, he's hunted across the globe by a sociopathic rogue operative who's put a bounty on his head.
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He drinks in his scenery with a cocktail of malice and absurdity in a performance as reminiscent of Dennis Hopper in Speed (1994) as it is Dennis Hopper in Waterworld (1992).
There are shades of just about everything here, from the Jason Bourne series to Mission: Impossible, to the point where a lot of this can’t help but feel like it lacks a form of any concrete identity.
Sigue la estela de otras cintas del mismo género como la trilogía de Jason Bourne o John Wick , o por supuesto, la saga de James Bond .
La pellicola dei fratelli Russo strizza l’occhio alle saghe di Mission: Impossible , Jason Bourne e James Bond ma riesce a mantenere una sua propria identità.
If your only point of reference to Netflix’s Originals are Red Notice and Bright (2017), I encourage you to remember that they also released Okja (2017), The Night Comes For Us (2018), The Old Guard (2020), Da 5 Bloods (2020), and The Harder They Fall (2021).The streamer has far more hits on their hands than misses, it’s just that they put out so much that the misses take up far more space in public consciousness.
Also along for the ride is fellow C.I.A. agent, Dani (Ana de Armas, Knock, Knock , No Time to Die ), who is hilariously responsible for constantly coming to Six’s rescue just when he needs it, and legendary operative Margaret Cahill (Alfre Woodard, A Series of Unfortunate Events , Annabelle ), dying of cancer and living alone in Prague but vital to the endgame.
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The first 30 minutes piles on references at a rapid clip – from “The Bourne Identity” to “Enemy of the State” to “The Replacement Killers” to “The Equalizer” to “John Wick” – quickly becoming impossible to count.