Gray Man, The

[Netflix Only] When a skilled, charming, globetrotting CIA mercenary (Ryan Gosling), whose handler (Billy Bob Thornton) has a feisty niece (Julia Butters) with a pacemaker, ends up killing another black ops agent in Bangkok who gives him a necklace with a flash drive that has secretive, incriminating evidence of illicit CIA activity in Anthony and Joe Russo's entertaining, multilayered, gritty, intense, action-packed, frenetic-paced, bullet-splattered, nonlinear, violent, star-studded (Alfre Woodard, Shea Whigham, and Jessica Henwick), 122-minute thriller based on Mark Greaney's 2009 novel and reminiscent of the John Wick and Bourne Identity films, he finds himself with a bounty on his head and aided by a,career-oriented CIA black ops agent (Ana de Armas) after a ruthless, psychopathic, maniacal former assassin colleague (Chris Pine) leads an army of assassins (Regé-Jean Page, Dhanush, DeObia Oparei, Daz Crawford, Wagner Moura, et al.) on a manhunt across the globe to find him at all costs.
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