
Flicks, Giles Hardie
It’s almost reassuring in 2015 to still be able to walk out of a cinema and ask aloud and with feeling: How on Earth did that get made?
Full reviewSean Penn is a veteran assassin ready to retire, but the organisation that he works for has no intention of letting him go in this action-thriller from the director of Taken. Co-stars Idris Elba, Javier Bardem and Ray Winstone. Based on the 1981 novel The Prone Gunman by French novelist Jean-Patrick Manchette.
It’s almost reassuring in 2015 to still be able to walk out of a cinema and ask aloud and with feeling: How on Earth did that get made?
Full reviewPenn’s veiny, sweat-glazed biceps are the most objectively impressive feature of this rote, humorless thriller...
Full reviewPacked with saw-it-coming plot twists, half-hearted car chases and an angsty hero with mega muscles and zero charisma.
Full reviewRipe, borderline hammy turns from Javier Bardem, Ray Winstone, Idris Elba and Mark Rylance add some spice.
Full review...a thoughtful, provocative thriller replete with richly crafted characters, gripping set pieces, and an underlying moral drive about the very nature and consequences of violence.
Full reviewSub-Ludlum plotting but stylishly executed, this offers a fun night out...
Full reviewThe Gunman is available to stream in Australia now on Stan and Apple TV and Foxtel and Binge.
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