There’s plenty of drama but no heart in this Netflix tale of CIA assassins, which jumps frantically between exotic locations
wo solid hours of efficient Netflix content is what’s on offer here, the action-thriller equivalent of a conscientiously microwaved Tuscan Sausage Penne from M&S. Directed by the Russo brothers, Joe and Anthony, this hasplaying a CIA assassin recruited from prison for a top-secret black ops unit, one of a team of “gray men” operating in the murky shadows; he is known only by his codename Sierra Six .
Sierra goes rogue when he discovers his own employers are up to no good, the evidence being a data chip in a medallion on the body of one of his victims: a very cursory MacGuffin whose exact significance is never really spelled out. So the Agency ruthlessly sends a psychopathic freak and torture enthusiast out to silence him: one Lloyd Hansen, played in smirking bad-guy mode by Chris Evans with creepy moustache and knitwear.
The movie zooms manically from exotic industry-tax-break location to exotic industry-tax-break location, each announced on screen in huge sans serif capital letters . There’s plenty of gonzo action but no heart and no real dramatic voltage. The Gray Man is released on 15 July in cinemas in the US and UK, is in cinemas now in Australia, and is released on 22 July on Netflix.
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