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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Richard Roeper

‘The Gray Man,’ bloated and brain-dead, wastes money, talent and your time

Secret CIA assassin Sierra Six (Ryan Gosling) goes on the run after acquiring an incriminating flash drive in “The Gray Man.” (Netflix)

They should have just called him “The Cliché Man.”

The bloated, bombastic and brain-dead Netflix actioner “The Gray Man” is a depressingly formulaic waste of the talents of the Russo Brothers and the A-list cast — and a complete waste of 2 hours and 2 minutes of your time, unless you’re content to hit the “Recline” button on your theater seat, soak in the exotic locations, jam your arm into a bucket o’ popcorn and laugh at the hackneyed, cartoonishly violent and utterly ridiculous idiocy of the entire exercise.

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