Reviews for this film from our members:
- David Bax @ Battleship Pretension
- Excerpt: But unlike the recent Kingsman: The Secret Service, The Gunman never engages with its influences. It’s as if someone storyboarded all the beats and clichés of a spy movie and then someone else attempted to fill in the characters and story wherever they could fit them.
- Nicholas Bell @ Ioncinema
- Excerpt: It’s hard to say just how skilled Penn’s trigger man is with his weaponry, as his occupation is outshined by a more impressive gun show, that of the actor’s oft featured torso and sweat gleamed biceps.
- Kevin Carr @ 7M Pictures
- Excerpt: I enjoyed “The Gunman” more than I expected I would, mainly because of the cast and because I was pleasantly surprised that the movie was not just a derivative “Taken” knock-off.
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: Penn…is at least trying to say something about relief work in third world countries, but the film slips so quickly into generic thriller mode it feels like it mutated in post-production.
- Mark Dujsik @ Mark Reviews Movies
- Excerpt: The movie doesn’t quite approach a level of irresponsibility, but its all-around lack of responsibility is off-putting.
- Sarah Gopaul @ Digital Journal
- Excerpt: ‘The Gunman’ follows in the footsteps of most recent Liam Neeson movies in which a retired mercenary must fend off would-be assassins while trying to discover who is supplying the guns-for-hire.
- Susan Granger @ www.susangranger.com
- Excerpt: It’s a gritty, generic ‘guy’ thing from the get-go.
- Vadym Grygoriev @ kinoblog.com [Ukrainian]
- Travis Hopson @ Punch Drunk Critics
- Excerpt: With Morel at the helm this was never going to be more than a dumb shoot ’em up and…well, dumb it certainly is
- MaryAnn Johanson @ FlickFilosopher.com
- Excerpt:A tired old piece of action junk that expects us to sympathize with a very bad man. We don’t.
- Charlie Juhl @ Citizen Charlie
- Excerpt: Joins the pile of action film leftovers nobody will remember a year from now.
- Kristin Dreyer Kramer @ NightsAndWeekends.com
- Glenn Lovell @ CinemaDope.com
- Excerpt: Review … some decent shootouts and hand-to-hand combat but the writing mostly stinks, allowing for gaping narrative holes and improv rants by Bardem … Penn seems less enigmatic that just plain bored.
- Brent McKnight @ The Last Thing I See
- Pat Mullen @ Cinemablographer
- Excerpt: The humanitarian revenge thriller is a strange genre.
- Jason Pirodsky @ Expats.cz
- Excerpt: A mercenary’s violent past comes back to haunt him in The Gunman, a sleek, adult thriller bolstered by a terrific cast and taut action direction from Luc Besson protégé Pierre Morel, who previously made the first Taken film and From Paris with Love.
- José M. Robado @ CineCrítico [Spanish]
- Amir Siregar @ Flick Magazine [Indonesian]
- Sarah Ward @ artsHub
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