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The Way of the Gun (2000)
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Reviews Counted:23
Fresh:9
Rotten:14
Average Rating:4.9/10
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
Top CriticBoth the picture and its nefarious plot seem self-consciously calculated.
04/25/03
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01/01/00
Top CriticMcQuarrie 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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Top CriticLike his characters, McQuarrie's film has two faces: It is overplotted and it is crisply directed.
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Top CriticWorks 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.
01/01/00
Top CriticStylish and intelligent.
01/01/00
Top CriticIt's hard stuff to watch, but the movie was written and filmed so smartly and with such boldness, with just the right ironic edge, that it counters the urge to bolt.
01/01/00
Top CriticStillborn.
01/01/00
Top CriticThe 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.
01/01/00
Top CriticThe 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 CriticWhere The Way of the Gun falters seriously is its too-leisurely pacing.
01/01/00
Top CriticMcQuarrie has inserted some of the most groan-worthy dialogue outside of the porn world.
01/01/00
Top CriticMcQuarrie, 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 CriticIn a way, [McQuarrie] almost seems motivated by the same things that drive his killers: desperation and loot.
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Top CriticMcQuarrie has a gift for curveball casting.
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Top CriticRotten, pretentious movie full of minimalist dialogue and self-consciously arty cinematography.
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