Ryan Gosling

2022 - 7 - 14

The Gray Man The Gray Man

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The Gray Man review – Ryan Gosling goes rogue in gonzo action ... (The Guardian)

There's plenty of drama but no heart in this Netflix tale of CIA assassins, which jumps frantically between exotic locations.

The dodgy CIA commander is played by Regé-Jean Page, but Sierra’s old boss Fitzroy is a straight-up good guy, played by Billy Bob Thornton; Fitzroy has a fatherly concern for Sierra, because he once asked him to look after his young niece Claire, played by 13-year-old Julia Butters in a bland and improbably cutesy role. Sierra goes rogue when he discovers his own employers are up to no good, the evidence being a data chip in a medallion on the body of one of his victims: a very cursory MacGuffin whose exact significance is never really spelled out. Two solid hours of efficient Netflix content is what’s on offer here, the action-thriller equivalent of a conscientiously microwaved Tuscan Sausage Penne from M&S. Directed by the Russo brothers, Joe and Anthony, this has Ryan Gosling playing a CIA assassin recruited from prison for a top-secret black ops unit, one of a team of “gray men” operating in the murky shadows; he is known only by his codename Sierra Six (the other choices presumably being Cortina Six, Focus Six and Fiesta Six).

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'The Gray Man' review: Even Ryan Gosling and evil Chris Evans can ... (USA TODAY)

Ryan Gosling gets chased by an evil Chris Evans for two hours in Netflix's 'The Gray Man,' a mediocre spy outing from the 'Avengers' directors.

Yes, he is the best of the "Chrises," and him doing a complete 180 from virtuous Captain America proves that once again: Lloyd yells at underlings, goes punch for punch and snark for snark with Gosling, and absolutely owns a plethora of clever zingers like, “If you want to make an omelet, you gotta kill some people.” The subplot about the niece seems solely focused to flesh out Gosling’s stoic, deadpanning character, with mixed results – mainly, it just slows down the momentum of the fight scenes and verbal sparring. With “The Gray Man” (★★ out of four; rated PG-13; in theaters Friday, streaming on Netflix July 22), directors Joe and Anthony Russo offer up an action-packed but wobbly and familiar version of a Bourne or Bond flick.

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The Gray Man film review — Ryan Gosling lets the action do the ... (Financial Times)

The Russo brothers evoke Bond and Bourne with the familiar story of a US government assassin forced to go it alone.

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Ryan Gosling spends The Gray Man promo tour talking about Barbie (The A.V. Club)

Gosling just can't stop talking about his "Ken-ergy"

And then you know what it is, but I don’t think that’s what you think it is.” A true Ken-undrum, one might say. It’s not what you expect,” he allowed. “I have that Ken-ergy that he can feel, obviously,” Gosling shares, referencing Evans’ insult that his Gray Man character is a “Ken doll” in another interview with Entertainment Tonight. “I still feel like the Ken-ergy is alive.” What is Ken-ergy, you may ask? “I can’t wait for people to see the film. “It’s not what you think it is, unless it is. “You have a Ken in your life, and you know that Ken has Ken-ergy.” Okay, sure!

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Ryan Gosling Reacts to His Viral <em>Barbie</em> Reveal ... (PEOPLE.com)

'It felt nice to see everyone else start having as much fun as we are,' Ryan Gosling tells PEOPLE of online reactions to 'Barbie' movie photos.

I can't wait for the film to come out and for that to continue." It's very inclusive and I think because the brothers are brothers, it's just inherently collaborative. It gave me no other choice."

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Ryan Gosling's Been Waiting His “Whole Life” to Look Like a Ken Doll (Vanity Fair)

I hope this starts a Ken-ergy movement,” the Oscar nominee teased at the premiere of his new film, The Gray Man. “The Ken-ergy is going to be alive and well ...

He had a lot of fun playing it, and I had a lot of fun playing against it,” Gosling said. I was so happy that I waited for this opportunity, because this was like the films I grew up with,” Gosling said on the arrivals carpet. “I’ve waited my whole life to look like this,” he teased. “A lot of the funniest lines in the film that come out of Ryan’s mouth were improvs from Ryan.” When asked about his natural ability to spit out playful punch lines, Gosling immediately quipped, “I get my sense of humor from Sears. It was on sale.” After a long four-year absence, Ryan Gosling returns to the big screen as a Black Ops assassin in The Gray Man, reportedly Netflix’s most expensive movie to date. “The Gray Man is different from anything I’ve done before.

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'Barbie': Ryan Gosling Felt "Seen" Playing Ken (Collider.com)

Along with Gosling Barbie features Margot Robbie in the titular role along with many talented actors like America Ferrera, Simu Liu, Kate McKinnon, Alexandra ...

While one can only speculate what is to come, Gosling’s comments are in line with what Robbie revealed to British Vogue in an August 2021 interview, she said, “Barbie comes with a lot of baggage! Barbie was first set up at Sony with Amy Schumer and Anne Hathaway, attached to lead at different points however, WB picked it up in 2018, where Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach came on board to pen the screenplay. His perfect white-blond hair, wearing ‘80s-style bare-chested denim vest and jeans, the look was completed with the spray tan and custom boxers with Ken written on it screamed ‘camp’ for many and rightfully so.

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Ryan Gosling Was Made to Play Ken (The Cut)

Unlike Pete Davidson's haunting 2019 Ken doll photo shoot, Gosling as Ken made sense. Apparently, he agrees. Talking with Variety about his role in the upcoming ...

As Gosling would say, welcome to the “Ken-aissance.” When the photos of Ryan Gosling as Ken first dropped, it was hard to deny that something about it felt right. “I felt like I was seeing myself.

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Ryan Gosling says he felt 'seen' donning Ken Doll's look in the new ... (BreakingNews.ie)

The Hollywood actor will star alongside Margot Robbie in the upcoming film on the world-famous doll.

Gotta do it for the Kens of the world. He said: “I felt like I was seeing myself. “Gotta do it for the Kens. Nobody plays with the Kens.” I felt seen. "This has been coming my whole life," Ryan Gosling says of playing Ken in#Barbie. "I think a lot of Kens will feel seen when they see this. Ryan Gosling has said he felt “seen” donning the bleached blond and washed-out denim look of Ken Doll for the upcoming live-action Barbie film.

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The Gray Man First Reviews: Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans Elevate ... (Rotten Tomatoes)

Critics are split on the Netflix spy thriller, which looks and feels expensive and benefits from the charms of its big-name leads, but feels like a bit less ...

–Chris Bumbray, JoBlo’s Movie Network –Chris Bumbray, JoBlo’s Movie Network –Molly Freeman, Screen Rant There is some unfinished business to attend to once the credits roll, which will most likely lead to a sequel. –Edward Douglas, The Weekend Warrior It was especially fun to see it in a packed theater, where the crowd clearly ate it up… This is a waste of the white-hot star of the moment. –Edward Douglas, The Weekend Warrior She seems born to lead action movies and might be the next big female action star. –Don Shanahan, Every Movie Has a Lesson –Don Shanahan, Every Movie Has a Lesson Gosling’s never done a major action movie on this level…

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'The Gray Man' review: Ryan Gosling Netflix movie an empty game (Los Angeles Times)

Review: Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans play empty spy games in Netflix's 'The Gray Man'. A bearded man with a cut on his forehead stands in a ...

He’s always been good at inhabiting emotional and psychological nonentities, whether as a replicant in “Blade Runner 2049” or as a man scarcely more lifelike than his blow-up doll in “Lars and the Real Girl.” (At one point in “The Gray Man” he’s referred to as a “Ken doll,” an undisguised reference to his role in the upcoming “Barbie” movie.) Sometimes Gosling can make that restraint work for a character, like his emotionally tamped-down Neil Armstrong in “First Man” (2018), which happens to be the last movie he appeared in before this one. A computer drive full of highly incriminating data goes missing, historic European landmarks are treated like cannon fodder, and people snarl things like “If you like breathing, you might want to fix this.” Page and Henwick are particularly wasted in some of the most tedious Langley office drama in recent memory. The latest of those jobs finds Six in Bangkok, where he teams up with another operative, Dani (Ana de Armas, basically extending her “No Time to Die” cameo), to take out a high-priority target. I have no idea whether that particular torture scene comes from the source material, not having read “The Gray Man” or any other novels in the series by Mark Greaney, a protégé of the late Tom Clancy. I also don’t know whose idea it was to throw a screaming teenager with a heart condition repeatedly into harm’s way — a choice that might have felt more defensible in a movie that didn’t expect us to chortle merrily at every fresh burst of mayhem. “The Gray Man” was directed by brothers Joe and Anthony Russo, though it’s such a synthetic, soulless bundle of goods that it barely feels touched by human hands. He gives us another one of those ciphers in the new Netflix espionage thriller “The Gray Man,” which is the first movie to make me consider watching “Only God Forgives” again, perhaps to offer or even seek my own forgiveness.

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