Where The Way of the Gun falters seriously is its too-leisurely pacing.
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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
Self-indulgent, excessive, overly personal and wears out its welcome sooner than the filmmaker had ever anticipated.
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So glacially paced and relentlessly unpleasant that it quickly becomes hard to care who's doing or did what to whom.
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All the players deliver performances that kill.
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McQuarrie has inserted some of the most groan-worthy dialogue outside of the porn world.
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Incomprehensible and deeply annoying.
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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.
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If one looks past the carnage, one can see a solid entertainment further distinguished by fine performances.
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In a way, [McQuarrie] almost seems motivated by the same things that drive his killers: desperation and loot.
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McQuarrie shows a sure hand in his first time as director, with a muted color palatte, strong rhythm, and effective action sequences.
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McQuarrie has a gift for curveball casting.
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Missing the compelling characters and exuberance that made Usual Suspects such a kick.
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Far better than the average fare hitting cinemas these days.
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Rotten, pretentious movie full of minimalist dialogue and self-consciously arty cinematography.
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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.
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A smarter-than -usual action movie.
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For all its post-modern quirks, The Way of the Gun can't help but feel pointlessly derivative.
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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.
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