The Gray Man starring Ryan Gosling: how much is Netflix’s most expensive movie worth?

Sunday evening. From Friday, you see it The gray man leaps into the Netflix Top ranking of the most viewed programs in France.

You also end up wondering if the movie worth than you him spend 2 hours and 8 minutes of your time. For help you decidewe deliver you our spoiler-free review !

The ingredients of success

To prepare the blockbuster able to launch a saga at the height of James Bond Where is it Jason BourneNetflix has devoted scrupulous care the choice of its ingredients. Remembering to start, of course, with what the platform considers its little magic ingredient : a balance 9 digits.

Then comes the implementation phase. behind the many cameras The gray man we find Antonio and Joe Russo to which we owe in particular Avengers: End of the game. Recall that the latter film is almost here the 3 billion dollars of recipe, to become the most watched and highest-grossing film in history the cinema. (For the record, Avatar claimed the top spot in March 2021 when he was released in China.) Suffice it to say that the Russo brothers are used to big projects.

The other main component of The gray manthis is its five-star cast. Five stars, literally since the film unites Ryan Gosling, Ana de Armas, Chris Evans, Alfred Woodard and finally, Regé-Jean page. We conclude with a screenplay adapted from a successful saga, consisting of ten novels by Mark Greaney. And let’s cook.

A recipe that works! …

Now you know the recipe for The gray man. In this you know what it constitutes its greatest quality … as well as its greatest weakness.

Quality, because the film is formidable efficient And keeps its promises from one end to the other. Action sequences they follow each other at regular intervals in a rhythm that borders on fury. Assembly less useful for telling a story what to prevent the viewer from blinking under penalty of missing the collapse of a historic monument and the death of twenty-four extras.

During two intense hourswe attend an escalation of stunts, special effects, increasingly extreme set-up ideas. Some sequences will probably be successful in you as well release the jaw so much they are Bold – almost blatant of implausibilitybut enjoyable. The goal of The gray manis to blow up everything that can be (and also what cannot).

… But still a recipe

in any case, the negative side of a movie kitchen from a recipe… It is precisely that we know in advance what will come out of it.

All sounds very goodthe film script it is absolutely inconsistent but holds the road, special effects I am succeeded. OnlyThe gray man it is so millimetric, choreographed, calibrated to be a commercial bomb that follows a lack of depth, charm and surprise.

This absence of spontaneity is also experienced in a gallery of characters who do their job, but who we have all seen beforeof the sick little girl who must be saved (Julia Butters) through the spy whose only feature is being the female version of her male counterpart (Ana de Armas).

The biggest disappointment is Chris Evans like Lloyd Hansen true psychopathic stereotype according to blockbuster Americans. Instead of proposing a figure really disturbing and surprising, the latter appears as a pure pretext to blow up even more stuff. The fault in particular of character dialogues, which want to be memorable, but which often suck.

Finally, the greatest resource of The gray manmaybe this is … Ryan Gosling. It is clear that the actor enjoys the extraordinary aura of the pilot in which he was embodied Voyage. Of course, these two characters are very different. But Gosling brings some mystery forged in the film by Nicolas Winding Refn and whose The gray man severely lacking. Thanks to this aura, it does this CIA agent more interesting than if he had been embodied by another actor, handsome but interchangeable.

Definitely, The gray man manages to entertain from start to finish. It also happens to him to amaze with its special effects and some acrobatic ideas. If that’s what you’re looking for on your Sunday night, Just do it. On the other hand, wanting too much to compete Jason Bourne And James Bond while biting a little Voyage, struggle to forge its own identity.

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