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The Gunman

2015

Pierre Morel

Sean Penn, Idris Elba, Javier Bardem, Ray Winstone ...

4.4

3,330

Thriller. Action A former Special Forces soldier and military contractor suffering from PTSD tries to reconnect with his long time love, but first must go on the run from London to Barcelona and across Europe in order to clear his name.

	Author	Review
United States	Leslie Felperin The Hollywood Reporter	"This humorless action film becomes unintentionally camp by the end (...) this is pretty boilerplate stuff that takes itself way too seriously"	NEG
United States	Chris Nashawaty Entertainment Weekly	"The kind of film that can't be bothered to do any more with its Spanish setting than have a showdown at a bullfight"	NEG
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"Mr. Penn, aiming for weary, battered intensity, settles into a zone somewhere between fatigue and indigestion (...) Bardem at least seems to be having fun"	NEG
United States	Guy Lodge Variety	"Sean Penn's odd attempt to refashion himself as a middle-aged action hero won't give Liam Neeson any sleepless nights"	NEG
United States	Mick LaSalle SFGATE	"It succeeds, partly because the moral climate it presents seems so confused, but mainly because of Penn's particular aura of irascible integrity"	POS
United States	Alonso Duralde The Wrap	"Penn suffers and glowers so much that it weighs down the material. If he plans to strap on the Kevlar in future, he might consider lightening up a little and saving the intensity for more serious movies"	NEG

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