“The Gray Man” is in constant danger of becoming a “John Wick” flick, as entertaining as those can be.
The big-budget, star-studded, spy-versus-spy affair from Netflix, which debuts in theaters this week before hitting the streaming platform next week, is so packed with action that it tiptoes the line between a squint-for-it realism and all-out lunacy.
Ultimately, the latest from Joe and Anthony Russo — the brother filmmaking tandem from northeast Ohio responsible for two of the highest-grossing movies of all time, 2018’s “Avengers: Infinity War” and 2019’s “Avengers: Endgame” — manages to stay out of the realm of the completely ridiculous, if barely.
