Is The Gray Man worth 122 minutes of my life?

I’ve just finished it. Very formulaic fight/gun/car chase scenes, it’s a film that’s been done thousands of times before but it was ok brain chewing gum

The real question is can you think of anything that would be more fun, rewarding, fulfilling or constructive to do in 122 minutes than just sit on your arse and watch a harmless film which may or may not be any good?

For me, most of the time the answer is no. I watch a lot of films.

Is it better or worse than Red Notice?

Slightly better, it’s a different film, more like a mixture of Bond/Bourne/Anything with Statham in

Reckon I'll be giving it a watch at some point then.

Red Notice

Speaking as someone who would quite happily watch Gal Gadot do her tax return, red notice was utter rubbish.

I'm not a fan of Netflixs' strategy of contracting famous actors to appear in films whose only redeeming feature is that they star famous actors.

Well that was a load of utterly preposterous nonsense.

Great fun!

Mrs Binners was disappointed with the lack of exploding helicopters, right up until somebody shot down a helicopter with a rocket propelled grenade

Amiable brainrot that’s clearly having a right old laugh and the baddie had clearly modelled himself on Hedley Lamarr in Blazing Saddles

Yeah, just finished it, it's an action movie akin to the 80s or 90s with the leading man and bad guy, it does get a bit Team America with the collateral damage that happens around them, it's certainly not going to be remembered for long, which will be the big talking point as usual, $200 million on a 2 hour movie that's got similar feel to Red Notice in cost and output, i.e. put some of the biggest stars available in an action movie with a formulaic plot.

Have to say i'm baffled by the amount the likes of Netflix spends on these movies, not even sure how they go about working out how much they make or lose on a $200 million budget against the views they get, subs are down again so not sure there's anyone signing up to watch a one off film?

Watched it today and couldn't help but think that Freddie Mercury was in the film...

I'd hoped for a more satisfying ending, personally.

Just finished watching it. Having watched Red Notice I went in with lowish expectations but to be fair it exceeded those.

I’d hoped for a more satisfying ending, personally

Know what you mean but I think they were setting it up for a sequel

Could Truss be the Dmitry Medvedev to Boris Johnson's Putin?

TBH I don't think either of them have the wit to come up with such a cunning scheme.

No.
I Watched it last night.
Formulaic garbage with no novelty that I spotted.

Utter Shite

Okish

Well another one off the list. Has Netflix ever done a good film? I'm halfway through so many of them.

Has Netflix ever done a good film?

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

It was a good film.

There was something unique in the movie. But I'd have to post a spoiler so I'm not going to. It's about the fights the female agent has with each of the bad guys. It was different than other films in the genre.

I enjoyed it.

Aye, formulaic action nonsense but tolerable. Some stuff I need to dump within 5 mins, this I didn't. It isn't high art but then a bit of escapism doesn't hurt does it? Ending was lame/weird as in an obvious set up for the franchise/sequel.

Speaking as someone who would quite happily watch Gal Gadot do her tax return, red notice was utter rubbish.

Same her and similar can be said for the last wonder woman film.

I thought bright had a good concept but I kept getting Training day vibes from it.

If you added Netflix, prime and Disney you must be getting to serious outlay a month. Given how things are getting expensive you expect subs to plumet.

If you added Netflix, prime and Disney you must be getting to serious outlay a month. Given how things are getting expensive you expect subs to plumet.

I get Netflix free with my Sky after renewal, same with Paramount Plus, which i get with Sky Cinema for free, Amazon is still student discount, Disney got binned as it's just not worth it.

Well we enjoyed it. It didn't feel like a two hour plus film.

Great action sequences. The plane scene was as breathtaking, as is AdA.

I lasted 15 minutes. It's like John Wick for stupid people. And given that John Wick was targeted at stupid people that says a lot.

It’s like John Wick for stupid people

That settles it, it's on the watchlist now 😀

We watched it last night. Enjoyable guff.
Will be interesting if they do continue the franchise, I've read a number of the books which are also guff but somewhat darker.

Disney got binned as it’s just not worth it.

I binned it too, then saw the trailer and early opinions for Prey. Might need to try and find a free trial.

Can anyone who said it was shite let me know the last action film they enjoyed? I want to know what gems I've missed.

Anyone seen the trailer for John Wick IV? Looks kick ass.

I lasted 15 minutes. It’s like John Wick for stupid people. And given that John Wick was targeted at stupid people that says a lot.

John Wick is all style and it sort of works.  For me the first 15mins were the most annoying as it was they were trying to tick off the most clichés that they could.  But it settled and got sort of ok.  I've watched a lot worse

It was an OK film to have with a beer(s) an a pizza, I wouldn't watch it again or its sequel and its full of cliche's.

I'll be watching John Wick 4 for sure.

Can anyone who said it was shite let me know the last action film they enjoyed? I want to know what gems I’ve missed.

@eddiebaby I certainly enjoyed 'Ambulance'.

I liked it for what it is, a couple of hours of shooting, fighting, riding a train, (well team in this case, but it's pretty much action film 101) car chases. I'd watch the sequel.

Fairly formulaic bilge. I enjoyed it 😁

CGI bits were pretty awful, I thought. Some lovely drone work.

Watching it now, no worse than Bond, even has the same actress in it as the last Bond film

Yeah, it's a no brain 2 hour action movie, and it's at least better than the fast and furious stuff

It’s like John Wick for stupid people

Strangely enough we watched the first John Wick yesterday and the Gray Man this afternoon.

Think I preferred the Gray Man, the Vienna / Prague scene was pretty impressive. Thought Ryan Gosling was pretty average - get him confused a lot with Ryan Reynolds - just not as funny.

Certainly sets a new bar for insane action sequences in a Bond / Bjorn esq film.

Ive spent better ways to waste 2 hours .. Far from any form of realisam
Ok for a Sunday night mong film ..

Much better than red notice.
Bit mindless, but some good fights and chuckled at some of the dry humour.

More importantly though, season 3 of blown away has just landed on Netflix

I gave up watching after about ten minutes but only because after watching some of the Jan 6 hearings, this kind of stuff just seems so trite and safe and pointless.

season 3 of blown away has just landed on Netflix
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That's a good shout.

I thought it was utter shite!

I would watch Ana de Amas read the ingredients list off a packet of digestive biscuits for 122 minutes to be honest...

She's dreamy!

Watched it yesterday. it's a bit drawn out. there are a few flashback scenes that would only normally be that long/involved in a directors cut. The hero isn't superhuman, which makes a change. (apart from main characters being shot/stabbed and maimed, but nothing a quick trip to the ER/pharmacy/vets/moms kitchen won't sort)

could be at least 20 min shorter.

fights were nicely choreographed, and the humour was welcomed. all in. 6/10.

I enjoyed it as far as it's a Netflix no brain drain watcher.

Also saw Thor love & thunder (cinema) at the weekend which was significantly worse.

Also saw Thor love & thunder (cinema) at the weekend which was significantly worse.

Haven't seen this, and I'm not a fan of superhero guff, but I did enjoy the last Thor because of the Taika Waititi aspect.

Just thought, wouldn't it be great if he got to do a straight action comedy movie? Preferably starring Jason Statham.

Disney got binned as it’s just not worth it.

I binned it too, then saw the trailer and early opinions for Prey. Might need to try and find a free trial.

I was wondering about that, I’ve seen the trailer, and the reviews have been really very good. I saw Predators and enjoyed it, as well as the first two films but Prey is so different, being set 300 years ago, with an entirely First Nations cast, with subtitles, which is a first.

I wonder if it could go onto the main Cinema release network, certainly worse films get a release.

I gave up on it. I may try to finish it. But it's like The Terminal List, I just couldn't really generate an interest in what happens.

I gave up on it. I may try to finish it. But it’s like The Terminal List, I just couldn’t really generate an interest in what happens.

@10 How far did you get with Terminal List? I nearly gave up partway through second episode but things do pick up in episode three... I'll see how it goes.

@househusband I lasted until midway through episode 6. I wasn't going to bother with starting it but did. Alright set pieces, but I have no interest in the character. I thought the first couple of episodes were kind of good in how they built up the narrative, but then it got abandoned.

@10 Ah, I'm just about to start episode 6 this evening and, from the end of episode 5, thought that would be the final finale! I'll persevere as wife will out at the horse and I'm on holiday.

Well another one off the list. Has Netflix ever done a good film? I’m halfway through so many of them

Have you watched Knives Out ?

( also has Ana de Amas in it ) 😉

I lasted 15 minutes. It’s like John Wick for stupid people. And given that John Wick was targeted at stupid people that says a lot.

+1 but then I can't stand wooden top Ryan Gosling so I don't know why I bothered watching it start with.

Enjoyed it. Seeing Chris Evans play a bad guy was interesting. Thought he did a good job too.

I quite enjoyed it in a brain-off kind of way.

I thought the central performances were good: Chris Evans was decent, Ryan Gosling was well-cast - his slightly dry/sarcastic style fit well I thought, but I thought Ana De Armas was great. It felt like she was demonstrating that she should have got the female lead in the last bond film, rather than the wierd "almost an actual character, but not quite" role that she ended up with.

Rege-jean Page was disappointing. although in his defense I think his character was very generic, there wasn't really anything there for him to work with.

Enjoyable weeknight movie

I enjoyed it. Passed the time nicely on a flight.

I do have one question though; can people really fight like that in real life? Someone headbutts me I would go down like a sack of shit. Anyone I've seen nutted went down like they'd be shot too!

can people really fight like that in real life?

I haven't seen The Gray Man but the fight scenes in action movies are always ridiculous. People get knocked unconscious but then moments later they wake up and are back at it, untrained amateurs (often small women) take on trained fighters and beat them, etc. Don't start me on how trained killers cannot hit anything despite firing hundreds of rounds but a rank amateur can put a bullet to within an inch.

can people really fight like that in real life? Someone headbutts me I would go down like a sack of shit

Everyone would. Even "just" getting punched in the face is not something that you shrug off.

Yeah, complete fantasy stuff

I missed the first 20 min, watched the next 25 when Mrs TiRed fell asleep, and then switched off. Formulaic drivel. I’m probably the last person never to have seen a Bourne film, but I imagine it’s a lower rent version. The only funny part was in the private jet.

If it cheers you up, Netflix appear to have signed off on the sequel and a spin-off film 😁

no, it is not. i watched it yesterday. it is terrible.

Has Netflix ever done a good film?

Birdbox got panned but I quite liked it. Not enough to stop me cancelling Netflix when BCS ends, mind.

fight scenes in action movies are always ridiculous

Watched it last night. It’s stupid and brainless, Chris Evans hams it up Ryan Gosling does Ryan Gosling. The Mrs stayed awake all the way through which she has failed to do through anything for the past 6 months despite having Covid at the moment. It a massive budget B movie.

I watched it 3 days ago now and can't remember a thing about it other that it passed a few hours.

There again some beers also do that

Best fight scene ever (outside of Tony Jaa, Bruce and Jackie films).

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c9rrgJXfLns

I enjoyed it, didn't go in expecting some high art and job was a good un. Just a good old fashioned shooty-fighty action film. Good to see Chris Evans (tash an' all) playing a baddie for change.

Started it, usual stupid action crap, decent cast almost fools you, then the shooting starts. And my stop button gets hit. So many more worthwhile things to do with 2 hours.

If anyone fancies Disney on the cheap

30 euros for annual sub

There's a few of these 20-30 quid codes going (I believe it's from a Samsung offer)

https://www.kinguin.net/category/115750/disney-subscription-12-months-subscription-card-uk-only-for-new-accounts

It was bad,just not at the world beating level of bad that was 'Polar'(what were you thinking Mads) 😉
As already said, worth watching for Chris 'the tash'Evans doing his baddie thing 🙂

Fell asleep watching it 🤷‍♂️

Watched it last night.

Interesting first 10-15m then pretty bloody average after that!

Chris Evans does do a good comic bad guy but he needs better material than this......

Has Netflix ever done a good film?

One of their early ones - you'd never guess it was a "Netflix Original", it's superb:
"Beasts of No Nation" from 2015

(Actually, according to [url= https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Netflix_original_films_(2015%E2%80%932017) ]Wikipedia[/url] the first one.)