Review of The Way of the Gun (2000) by Ola G — 06 Feb 2015
Written and directed by Christopher McQuarrie, (Oscar winning screenwriter of The Usual Suspects (1995), and director of Jack Reacher (2012) and Mission: Impossible 5 (2015))< this action thriller harks back to old fashioned violent thrillers of the 1970's, but McQuarrie wrote it out of desperation when he struggled to get work after The Usual Suspects.
It's a very good and very violent film. It follows two thugs, George Parker (Ryan Phillippe) and Harold Longbaugh (Benicio del Toro), who are looking for a job, and at a sperm donation clinic, they overhear about a surrogate mother called Robin (Juliette Lewis) who is being paid $1 million to carry the child of local millionaire Hal Chidduck (Scott Wilson.
) Parker and Longbaugh kidnap Robin in a violent shootout, with bodyguards Jeffers (Taye Diggs) and Obeck (Nicky Katt) in pursuit. However, Chidduck calls up bail bondsman Joe Sarno (James Caan) to act as a middle man into getting Robin back alive.
While you might have seen kidnap films like this before, but this one is well made, and it has a really good cast to it's name, and it's shame that McQuarrie hasn't directed more films, as he has a taut style which never lets up.
It might owe a debt of gratitude to the films of Sam Peckinpah, but McQuarrie makes it his own.
This review of The Way of the Gun (2000) was written by Ola G on 06 February 2015.
The Way of the Gun has generally received mixed reviews.
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