Pierre Morel’s Taken (2008) took an actor older than
your average action star and gave the world an action trilogy. Not great, but occasionally
fun and some moments of brilliance in the first one.
The same is unlikely
to be the case for Morels’ The Gunman.
Unlike Taken, The Gunman attempts a
lot, threading many big ideas into a film that primarily wants to be action and
therefore losing many of the ideas along the way. The film is well acted, which
is to be expected, but the script doesn’t give them the depth in material they’re
capable of.
There are a couple of
interesting action set pieces and the physical nature of them is to be admired,
but there are better examples out there. The
Gunman trots around the globe a la
Bourne and Bond and is better than the latter, but lacks the intensity of the
former.
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