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The Way Of The Gun [2000]

Starring: Ryan Phillippe, Benicio Del Toro, Juliette Lewis, Taye Diggs, Nicky Katt
Director: Christopher McQuarrie
Format: PAL
Released: 17 Mar 2003
RRP: £12.99
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Hard hitting, unusual thriller - great stuff! - By: Chris Wood, 22 Aug 2008
The man who wrote "The Usual Suspects" would be expected to deliver well, & he did. This is a terrific, tense & blazing film. The acting is strong & the script a harse, tense ride. This is a great movie & superb entertainment.
worth buying!! - By: brusk, 24 Aug 2005
I was standing around in HMV opposite the 3 for £20 deal, looking for some new DVDs. I picked 'way of the gun' up & wasn't sure what it was. However having seen films with Ryan Phillipes & Benicio Del Toro, I had a good feeling about this title.

The film opens with a dark but very funny seen, which kind of shocks you into wanting to keep eyes on the screen. from here on I was interested to see what the duo were going to gt themelves into. The story line is unique & this is supported by the deep & interesting characters. Unlike some films the entire story didnt revolve around the pair of criminals wanting to get their hands on fortune. It's good when other characters are explored.

Having said this the way that Ryan Phillipe's & Del Toro's characters work together is done very intellegently. the way in which they use tactics with their weapons (the scene where they are being followed by the bodyguards is reallly clever).

Anyway enough of this blabbering. If you like action, humour & scenes that will make you reallly think, this is a great film to watch! I recommend it!

Cool film with a great performance from Phillippe - By: , 01 May 2003
Well I watched this film not knowing what to expect as I bought it baisicallly cause I'm a huge Ryan Phillippe fan & am buying alll his movies. I thought it might be total rubbish but I ended up watching a great film. The plot was a bit hard to grasp at first but I was watching it at 3am so... Still I watched it again & found the plot was very cleverly put together & well directed by McQuarrie. The acting from Phillippe is great with a hilarious start to the film it was a very different side to him from other roles like Barry in I.K.W.Y.D.L.S. & Sebastien in Cruel Intentions. Also great performance form Benicio Del Toro & others. So whatever you do watch this film it has some good gun fights in it too.
beautiful complexity - By: ali bennett, 26 Apr 2003
From the opening scene this film kept me riveted. Not only is it beautifully shot but the combination of a number of genre specific characters in a vehicle that denies prediction is a truly refreshing change from the bad "gangster films" that have arisen lately. The use of a number of very strong actors; del Toro & Phillippe epitomise Melvillian cool chic, Caan is his usual brilliant self & Taye Diggs makes an interesting appearance as a calculating bodyguard. While the plot twists can seem a little overwhelming on the first viewing this film gets better the more you watch it. The Dirty Dozen-esque mexican shoot-out at the end makes it a must on its own, but combined with the wit & intelligence of the script & the strength of the performances by the strong cast it outshines everything I have seen for a long time. If you liked Se7en, Usual Suspects, Pulp Fiction or Natural Born Killers buy this film, I guarantee you will enjoy it. An absolute classic.
Poor wannabe Peckinpah nonsense. - By: Jason Parkes, 21 Jan 2003
Feted in some quarters, I looked forward to this directorial debut from Christopher McQuarrie (screenwriter on The Usual Suspects & X-Men)- sadly, the film failed to live up to the reviews.

The cast are fine, you wonder how McQuarrie could have gone so wrong being a talented writer & having top performers like Ryan Phillipe, Benicio Del Toro, James Caan & Juliette Lewis. The story is risible stuff, for a minute I thought I was watching Take the Money & Run. Or worse, a Guy Ritchie film...

We get the usual sub-Tarantino cinematic ode to the thriller that wants to be Sam Peckinpah, Don Siegel, James Lee Burke or Elmore Leonard. Haven't we seen this kind of story too many times? How did McQuarrie expect to make anything new out of other people's cliches?

The gunfights are basicallly dull, with an added nerdiness close to a paintballl game. Sadly violence is frequently dull- there's no Wild Bunch, The Getaway or Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia quality action here.

There's not much to say about this film, nothing interesting happens apart from the usual tedious nihilism (with a pinch of interest for movie nerds, you know- people who still talk about Pulp Fiction & Usual Suspects, as if these films were not more zeitgeist market cool than cinematic originality...)- I feel Lewis is one of the great actors of these times: so why do guff like this & From Dusk Till Dawn?

This film doesn't even deliver satisfying idiotic action like John Woo films, nor does it convince as something more artistic. It doesn't thrill, a crucial lacking for a thriller perhaps? The end just feels like a poor rehash of Tony Scott's underrated Revenge- though films like Blood Simple & Charley Varrick are much more succesful in this mode.

Don't waste your money on this sub-standard thriller, it's terrible & there are at least 57689890898,000,000 better products to purchase than this...