The Gunman doesn't shoot blanks, but it is never fully loaded.

| Mar 7, 2017

Part of the problem is the script's determination to drag some of Spain's most scenic spots into the action whether or not they suit the mood.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 16, 2015

If you want a thriller about architecture, here is your thing. Gaudi with Guns, they could have called it.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 16, 2015

Rarely, though, have two Academy Award-winning actors been so stunningly off the mark in the same movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.0 | Mar 27, 2015

I object to The Gunman because it's unconvincing and incoherent.

| Mar 23, 2015

A novel by Jean-Patrick Manchette provides the source material, but the only real "auteur" here is Morel, for whom this is very much more of the same.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 22, 2015

By attempting to parachute in weighty geopolitical themes to a successful action formula, the film sinks, leaving little to savour.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 20, 2015

A dull, generic retread, made far worse by Penn's self-seriousness as an actor, by the banal political pieties he's grafted on as producer and co-writer, and by the presence of a pitifully retrograde female lead role.

| Mar 20, 2015

I doubt The Gunman will do much to advance Penn's foray into action-hero bankability, and that's probably a good thing. He's too fine an actor to be mired in nonstop shootouts while flashing his pecs and looking scowly.

| Original Score: C | Mar 20, 2015

This isn't so much a film in which every ageing male fantasist can invest as a film that works as an allegory for the state of Penn's career alone. A specialised taste, I suspect.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 20, 2015

The Gunman degenerates into dreary setups for guns and gore. Penn merits more. So do we.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 20, 2015

Like a queasy blend of Still Alice and The Bourne Identity.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 20, 2015

Obviousness prevails.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 20, 2015

The kind of throughly anonymous and undistinguished film that barely would have passed muster as a mid-2000s D온라인카지노추천 project top-lining a third-tier 온라인카지노추천 star.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 20, 2015

It devolves into a mess of worn plot lines. If Morel wanted to give Penn's career new life as a world-weary action hero, he missed his target.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 20, 2015

Stars too often produce the kind of movie they want to star in, instead of the kind of movie anyone wants to watch.

| Original Score: C | Mar 19, 2015

Part of the contract that movies of this sort forge with moviegoers is that the reasons for all the running and gunning won't get in the way of the action. "The Gunman" doesn't play by those rules.

| Mar 19, 2015

Penn's gym-bunny loveliness is the most attractively toned part of the film. Everything else is out of condition.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 19, 2015

Sean Penn has spent a lot of time in the gym lately. We know this because, well, it's hard to ignore when a 54-year-old man grimly grabs every opportunity to shed his shirt.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 19, 2015

The Gunman is a pretty dumb movie in smart package.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 19, 2015