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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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If Ryan Phillippe had the lead in Erin Brockovich or Godzilla 2000, he couldn't be more miscast than he is in The Way of the Gun.
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More bullets, fewer words, and a shorter story could have made for a more entertaining night at the movies.
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Stillborn.
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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.
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Top CriticUnusually clever.
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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 CriticErratically entertaining.
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A masterful construction of plot, characters and style.
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Since we don't care about any of them and aren't mesmerized enough -- for good or bad -- by their attitudes and actions, the film becomes the equivalent of viewing a brutal documentary about nature's predators.
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All in all, I suppose I was not 'taken' by as much of this film as I had hoped but certainly wouldn't qualify it as a bad picture.
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Finale may run on too long, as does the picture itself (two hours is too much for this story), but there are enough compensations to keep you watching -- and hoping for better next time.
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Wildly derivative and painfully uneven, but The Way of the Gun is still an extremely stylish crime flick that is a lot more entertaining and original than most big Hollywood action films released this summer.
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The characters are such cardboard constructions that it hardly matters when they all start falling by the wayside in a furious hail of gunfire.
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Had this blood-soaked exercise in mayhem been written and directed by anyone other than Christopher McQuarrie, who wowed audiences with his script for that barrel of red herrings, The Usual Suspects, it would have probably gone straight to video.
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We understand [McQuarrie] aspires toward meaningful complications, but with all the people and words in the way nothing sticks.
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