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Christopher McQuarrie may exhibit a way behind the camera in the stylish The Way of the Gun, but his script falters with dull characterization and a plot so needlessly twisty that most viewers will be ready to tune out before the final reveal.
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It's good fun for bad boys. June 18, 2019 | Full Review…
It's good fun for bad boys.
Stephen Hunter
Writer-director Christopher McQuarrie, who wrote The Usual Suspects, has made a film that I admire more than I love, whose ending makes me recoil emotionally, even as I recommend the thing. June 18, 2019 | Full Review…
Writer-director Christopher McQuarrie, who wrote The Usual Suspects, has made a film that I admire more than I love, whose ending makes me recoil emotionally, even as I recommend the thing.
Desson Thomson
The Way of the Gun is doomy trash, a blood-soaked saga of remorseless killers and natural-born blatherers. I'm sure I've seen worse movies, but nothing so steadfastly unpleasant comes to mind. June 17, 2019 | Full Review…
The Way of the Gun is doomy trash, a blood-soaked saga of remorseless killers and natural-born blatherers. I'm sure I've seen worse movies, but nothing so steadfastly unpleasant comes to mind.
Joe Morgenstern
McQuarrie's script has some wonderfully ripe gangster dialogue, and as you'd expect, the characters and situations are never quite who and what they seem. But the payoff is blunted by the preposterous -- and unnecessarily gory -- shootouts. June 17, 2019 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
McQuarrie's script has some wonderfully ripe gangster dialogue, and as you'd expect, the characters and situations are never quite who and what they seem. But the payoff is blunted by the preposterous -- and unnecessarily gory -- shootouts.
Jack Mathews
Like a director who's budgeted a helicopter and can't bear not to use it, McQuarrie can't help larding his directorial debut with trimmings from far superior crime dramas, old and new. June 17, 2019 | Full Review…
Like a director who's budgeted a helicopter and can't bear not to use it, McQuarrie can't help larding his directorial debut with trimmings from far superior crime dramas, old and new.
John Anderson
What aims at being terrifying is just loud and goofy. June 17, 2019 | Full Review…
What aims at being terrifying is just loud and goofy.
Richard Corliss
Outrageous, unrelenting and blood-soaked. June 25, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Outrageous, unrelenting and blood-soaked.
Alan Jones
The new director's pacing runs slack sometimes and never quite achieves the quality of taut suspense, but there is so much promise and the script is so much better than most that it's a pleasure to watch. June 18, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
The new director's pacing runs slack sometimes and never quite achieves the quality of taut suspense, but there is so much promise and the script is so much better than most that it's a pleasure to watch.
Deborah Hornblow
Packaged with solid acting, an edgy western setting, and a complex yet intriguing weave of stories, this movie ends up being pretty entertaining. June 17, 2019 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
Packaged with solid acting, an edgy western setting, and a complex yet intriguing weave of stories, this movie ends up being pretty entertaining.
Katherine Dillin
A grisly mix of carnage, torture, backroom surgery and painful dialogue. June 17, 2019 | Full Review…
A grisly mix of carnage, torture, backroom surgery and painful dialogue.
Brian D. Johnson
Before it fires off a few too many volleys of bullets for its own good, The Way of the Gun rolls out as a noirish, contemporary crime drama with a cool, retro-Western air. June 17, 2019 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Before it fires off a few too many volleys of bullets for its own good, The Way of the Gun rolls out as a noirish, contemporary crime drama with a cool, retro-Western air.
Dennis King
Far more troubling than technical deficiencies is the cynicism of The Way of the Gun, which trots out the cliches of gratuitous violence and nihilism without considering them in a fresh or critical way. June 17, 2019 | Rating: 1/4 | Full Review…
Far more troubling than technical deficiencies is the cynicism of The Way of the Gun, which trots out the cliches of gratuitous violence and nihilism without considering them in a fresh or critical way.
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