A misfire.
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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
Box Office: $2,150,979
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
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Reviews for The Way of the Gun
McQuarrie not only invested his characters with nasty charm and compelling ruthlessness, his direction is confident, original, and satirical.
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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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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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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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Top CriticBuen intento que se queda en el camino
02/14/01
All the players deliver performances that kill.
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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.
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Top CriticIn 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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A threepenny opera of lurid plot turns, oceanic bloodletting, and pseudo-existential dialogue.
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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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Unusually clever.
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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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The Way of the Gun sometimes trips over its own contrivance, especially at the ammo-ridden end. But most of the time McQuarrie and his cast -- especially Del Toro, Philippe, and Lewis delivering her best, grittiest work in years -- make it crackle.
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Top CriticAmbles on with a lot of perfectly good individual scenes but no real point.
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The screenplay has some great dialogue and some memorable scenes. But the story was just too confusing.
02/15/01
If one looks past the carnage, one can see a solid entertainment further distinguished by fine performances.
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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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Top CriticThe dialogue ... is frequently clever.
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