Review: The Gunman

As soon as Liam Neeson’s Run All Night leaves the top of the charts we’ve got another geriatric Jason Bourne to contend with, this time in the form of the utterly humourless Sean Penn. Skin thinner than Kim Kardashian’s CV, Sean’s politics and social conscience are no doubt commendable, but he just doesn’t know how to chill out. This edgy, anxious energy he brings to his performance may have paid dividends when he was trying to make a name for himself in the ‘80s, but now it’s just odd to watch a 55-year old man jitter through a script – especially one as flimsy as The Gunman.

If you think The Gunman smacks of Taken a little too much, you’re right. Both films have the same director. The plot goes like this: man is in the special services, man leaves the special services and tries to expose his agency’s wrongdoings, agency takes wife, man tries to get wife back; we accost cinema employee demanding our ticket money back, leave disappointed.

Sure, it may be a bit of entertainment, but we’ve seen it all before.

Rottentomatoes.com gives this 24% and Imdb has it at 5.9.