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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
Uplifting? Not for a second. But if you're in the mood for a furious ride, The Way of the Gun delivers.
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At first you're surprised when you get the rug pulled out from under you. Eventually, if you're a quick study, you stop stepping on it.
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Ambles on with a lot of perfectly good individual scenes but no real point.
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Christopher McQuarrie makes a sluggishly paced directing debut.
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The uneven film generally drags along as if it were trying to approximate slow motion.
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Before you rush out to see what all the noise is about, though, know that The Way of the Gun mounts more aural bullets, swagger and pretense than substance.
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You will either be endlessly entertained by its over-the-top outrageousness or be repulsed and offended that anyone could be entertained.
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McQuarrie misfires occasionally, and his target -- hip, violent, Tarantino-esque noir -- is already bullet-riddled. But that doesn’t stop this Gun from finding its mark.
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A threepenny opera of lurid plot turns, oceanic bloodletting, and pseudo-existential dialogue.
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McQuarrie not only invested his characters with nasty charm and compelling ruthlessness, his direction is confident, original, and satirical.
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A misfire.
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The material seems agonizingly stale and the movie just doesn't have the same kind of power to carry us away.
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