If what you're looking for is unrestrained, over the top action, then this movie is for you. It's got the requisite chases, gunfights, and explosions, along with a James Bond style exit from a doomed airplane in which the hero, in this case
Ryan Gosling, parachutes to Earth after dispatching a crew of mercenaries originally hired to extract him from danger. Gosling is Sierra Six, released from prison eighteen years earlier upon the request of CIA operative Don Fitzroy (Billy Bob Thornton) in exchange for his life as an off the grid, untraceable assassin. With the usual handful of double crosses and expected twists, Six runs an international gamut of hit-teams and mercenaries to continually thwart his primary foe Lloyd Hansen (Chris Evans), who's disregard for the usual norms of covert government agencies earned him the contract to take out Six. But come on, you know that wasn't going to happen right from the start, whether or not you've seen a few dozen of these types of pictures. A back story involving Fitzroy's niece (Julia Butters) is also in play, adding to the unenviable task of Six keeping an encrypted disc out of the hands of his formidable adversary. The finale is fairly predictable, but at the same time the film felt unfinished with the fates of several players in question. Ana de Armas and Alfre Woodard provide additional star power in support of Gosling's misadventure as Sierra Six, and to top it off, he didn't even have to wear spandex.
Review of The Gray Man
