The Gunman
Terrier, an ex-soldier who carried out an assassination in the Democratic Republic of Congo finds his past catching up with him eight years later.
26 May 1984, Madrid, Madrid, Spain
1953, Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
24 April 1981, Rome, Lazio, Italy
9 September 1972, Brighton, England, UK
26 November 1972, Equatorial Guinea
6 September 1972, Hackney, London, England, UK
July 13, 2016
Relentlessly, loudly violent, the well-made Gunman is oddly compelling even when it's stupid (often).
March 23, 2015
I object to The Gunman because it's unconvincing and incoherent.
March 20, 2015
The actors are good and the action is thrilling. And if the film isn't quite as seriously political as I'm guessing Penn told himself it was, it's definitely an offbeat change of pace for us.
June 07, 2016
That aid work and violence are often two sides of the same coin is an all too familiar scenario, but in The Gunman there's little distinction between the pair.
March 07, 2017
The Gunman doesn't shoot blanks, but it is never fully loaded.
March 27, 2015
Rarely, though, have two Academy Award-winning actors been so stunningly off the mark in the same movie.
March 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.
July 14, 2016
Even for an action movie, The Gunman is ridiculously, almost courageously, dumb. It's also boring. So, you know, it's got that going for it.
April 27, 2016
It's directed by Pierre Morel, who started the geri-action genre with Liam Neeson in Taken. This one's both more complex and stupider and barely exciting, even when it's hailing bullets.
March 20, 2015
The Gunman degenerates into dreary setups for guns and gore. Penn merits more. So do we.
May 22, 2016
You just leave the theater suspecting in most alternate universes that this movie is totally awesome, but the one we get is just okay.
March 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.
