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The Way of the Gun (2000)
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Reviews Counted:103
Fresh:49
Rotten:54
Average Rating:5.3/10
Consensus: The Way of the Gun has some good parts, but overall, the movie is derivative, sloppy, and sluggish.
Runtime: 1 hr 59 mins
Genre: Action/Adventure
Synopsis: Two professional criminals, Parker (Ryan Phillippe) and Longbaugh (Benicio Del Toro), think they've devised the plan of a lifetime: kidnap Robin (Juliette Lewis), a pregnant surrogate mother, then... [More]
Starring: Ryan Phillippe, Benicio Del Toro, James Caan, Taye Diggs
Director: Christopher McQuarrie
Reviews for The Way of the Gun
Top CriticThe dialogue ... is frequently clever.
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If this sounds at all interesting to you, you can be assured that Way of the Gun presents it all pretty well. The bigger concern, however, should be why you might possibly be interested.
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Violent but intelligent.
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McQuarrie repeatedly demonstrates that there is no genre convention that can't be reinvented and turned into a virtue if the writing is good enough.
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Like his characters, McQuarrie's film has two faces: It is overplotted and it is crisply directed.
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Starts out intelligently, only to fall apart during its last act.
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I liked the lines and the movie, but I'd like it more if they turned up the thermostat a bit.
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Works better in entertaining fits and starts than as a whole. It doesn't resonate much beyond the here and now, even if the shotgun blasts ring in your ears for a good long while.
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Interminably slow
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McQuarrie is able to have [The Way of the Gun] become both an involving drama and an exciting action movie, a combination rarely achieved with any degree of success.
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Do the movie's generic roots -- its patent investments in action flicks, thrillers, gangster movies, Westerns, and films noirs -- make it just another genre picture or a thoughtful challenge to these familiar (not to say stale) configurations?
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Feels like a peach-fuzz version of a genre that requires genuine grizzle.
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Like Tarantino, McQuarrie can move actors and bullets through spaces.
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What makes for another intriguing plot is blown apart by unnecessarily long gun battles and a roster of distant, unsavory characters.
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Comes off as just another needlessly dense, derivative, smug and depressing throwaway.
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Stylish and intelligent.
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