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Bookmark this pageThe Way of the Gun (2000)
Director: Christopher McQuarrie
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
With an Oscar under his belt for the screenplay of The Usual Suspects, McQuarrie makes his directorial bow with this arresting attempt at a contemporary thriller filtered through the spirit of Peckinpah. Hoods Del Toro and Phillippe like to think they're the last word in ruthless cool, but they may have to reconsider when they kidnap pregnant Lewis and discover her unlikely connection to a scary crime figure, who soon has veteran fixer Caan on the case. With its elliptical gunfights, deliberate echoes of The Wild Bunch and probing moral sense, the film shows that, post-Tarantino, there's life left in the genre yet, even if the much signposted childbirth finale goes seriously off the rails, and Phillippe's badass credentials never really persuade.Author: TJ
Cast & crew
Director: Christopher McQuarrie
Producer: Kenneth Kokin
Cast: Ryan Phillippe, Benicio Del Toro, Juliette Lewis, Taye Diggs, Nicky Katt, Geoffrey Lewis, Dylan Kussman, Scott Wilson, James Caan full cast
Genre(s): Thrillers
Duration: 119 mins
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