The Way of the Gun (2000)

The material seems agonizingly stale and the movie just doesn't have the same kind of power to carry us away.

Full Review | Comment

01/01/00

McQuarrie, who won an Oscar for scripting The Usual Suspects, has a few visual ideas but no idea how to keep even a gunfight from being dull.

Full Review | Comment

01/01/00

Buen intento que se queda en el camino

Full Review | Comment

02/14/01

All the players deliver performances that kill.

Full Review | Comment

01/01/00

The Way of the Gun will be too bloody for many viewers, but for those who aren't turned off by the high level of violence, McQuarrie's first venture behind the camera offers an involving experience.

Full Review | Comment

01/01/00

In The Usual Suspects, McQuarrie's manifold plot of collective collusion all came together in the shocker finale. But in here the complexities never congeal. They just serve as a backdrop for an exercise in vacant movie cool.

Full Review | Comment

01/01/00

A threepenny opera of lurid plot turns, oceanic bloodletting, and pseudo-existential dialogue.

Full Review | Comment

01/01/00

Packed with gory confrontations and racking up a body count that's high enough for all but the most demanding crime-film connoisseur, The Way of the Gun benefits from a palpable sense of dread and impending doom.

Full Review | Comment

01/01/00

Unusually clever.

Full Review | Comment

01/01/00

True to the film's title, the gun, in all its many, many forms is exalted to the point of becoming a religious icon, flashing forth in the always stylized but numbingly boring shoot-outs that seem to occupy more than half the film's length.

Comment

01/01/00