{"id":2418715,"date":"2026-05-15T21:01:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T21:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2418715"},"modified":"2026-05-15T21:01:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T21:01:17","slug":"in-the-grey-review-guy-ritchie-is-stuck-making-the-same-damn-movie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/in-the-grey-review-guy-ritchie-is-stuck-making-the-same-damn-movie\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;In the Grey&#8217; review: Guy Ritchie is stuck making the same damn movie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2026%2F05%2Fnewspress-collage-xougxh47a-1778876312494.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall%261778862075\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--review alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__inner\">\n\t\t<span class=\"inline-module--review__eyebrow subsection-heading-semi__label\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tmovie review\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 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Rated R (violence, language and a sexual reference). In theaters.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>During \u201cIn the Grey,\u201d underworld characters call each other \u201cclever\u201d so many times that the viewer starts to wonder if these trigger-happy people, as well as the man who wrote their repetitive lines, really are clever at all.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Their limited vocabularies wouldn\u2019t suggest as much.<\/p>\n<p>Dare I say they all sound like idiots?<\/p>\n<p>That man with the uninspired pen is, of course, the guy responsible for \u201cThe Man from U.N.C.L.E.\u201d \u2014 Guy Ritchie, the British writer and director who\u2019s enjoyed a career resurgence thanks to entertaining crime thrillers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/01\/22\/the-gentlemen-review-you-wont-believe-thats-hugh-grant\/\">The Gentlemen<\/a>\u201d was his best, \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/05\/06\/wrath-of-man-review-the-years-most-badass-movie\/\">Wrath of Man<\/a>\u201d and \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/04\/19\/entertainment\/the-ministry-of-ungentlemanly-warfare-review-guy-ritchie-blows-up-history\/\">The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare<\/a>\u201d were fun and I\u2019d rather not talk about \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/03\/02\/guy-ritchies-operation-fortune-ruse-de-guerre-sputters\/\">Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module aligncenter\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--more inline-module--columnist inline-module--more--thirds\">\n<div class=\"inline-module__inner\">\n<h2 class=\"inline-module__heading subsection-heading subsection-heading--single-line \">\n\t\t\tMore From\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"subsection-heading__sub\">Johnny Oleksinski<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/h2>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>With \u201cIn the Grey,\u201d Ritchie has stalled out. While he\u2019s made a good-looking movie with a hot cast, the palm trees and parallel bone structures only get you so far. I\u2019m sure Eiza Gonz\u00e1lez, Henry Cavill, Jake Gyllenhaal all had a fabulous month in sunny Tenerife, but joining them in turning on their out-of-office email replies are plot surprises and cinematic thrills.<\/p>\n<p>There is not a second of \u201cGrey\u201d that isn\u2019t totally predictable. You\u2019ve seen every frame before, and done a lot better.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, the \u201cMission: Impossible\u201d and James Bond films are also variations on a well-worn theme. There\u2019s no need to reinvent the shootout. But those all at least attempt, with escalating stunts, effects and scenery, to outdo what came before them. Richie reduces, reuses, recycles.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And that does not equal excitement. The movie begins with about an hour of talky table setting before any significant action happens, which ultimately isn\u2019t explosive enough to justify the extended runup to a bit of gunfire and a few bombed buildings.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Jake Gyllenhaal, Henry Cavill and Eiza Gonz\u00e1lez are on a mission in \u201cIn the Grey.\u201d <span class=\"credit\">Black Bear Pictures<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The film\u2019s damp squib of a conflict? An unpaid loan.<\/p>\n<p>Gonz\u00e1lez plays an Olivia Pope type named Rachel Wild, a high-end debt collector and the smartest person in any room. This description strains credulity a tad because the actress cannot believably say a word of the overwritten legalese and finance fine print she\u2019s given.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s like if I commentated on a hockey game. He\u2019s hit the puck!<\/p>\n<p>Rachel\u2019s latest gig is retrieving $1 billion that was loaned to Salazar, a generic sleazebag vaguely played by Carlos Bardem, by a New York firm run by stuffy Bobby (a wasted Rosamund Pike). They want payment.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Sid (Cavill) and Bronco (Gyllenhaal) set up shop on Salazar\u2019s island. <span class=\"credit\">Black Bear Pictures<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>So Rachel\u2019s muscles, Sid (Cavill) and Bronco (Gyllenhaal), set up camp on Salazar\u2019s not-quite-private island for a month to plan an elaborate mission of violence and vehicles to get the dirty job done.<\/p>\n<p>The title, which sounds like a brooding Icelandic mystery novel, is in reference to Rachel\u2019s fuzzy mix of legal and very illegal business tactics. Yet it comes to describe most of what we experience.<\/p>\n<p>Sid and Bronco\u2019s names, for instance, would imply they\u2019re an animated duo. Not really. Nor are they particularly imposing.<\/p>\n<p>In the same way the boss\u2019 ramblings about shell companies and frozen assets sound unconvincing, so too does Bronco\u2019s threat that Salazar\u2019s lawyer will have to wipe what\u2019s left of his bodyguard \u201coff the wall\u201d if he fights him. Sure, Jake.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>OK, I still wouldn\u2019t pick a fight with Superman.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>The trio is looking to get repayment on a $1 billion loan. <span class=\"credit\">Black Bear Pictures<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ritchie has the team explain their multi-phase scheme in windy narrations with montages \u2014 think \u201cOceans 11\u201d \u2014 only they tend to turn a simple story much into something more convoluted than it needs to be. Ritchie loves to crowd the screen with charts and lists like he\u2019s directing \u201cA Beautiful Mind.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And the group\u2019s ideas are not all that creative anyway. Hiding a getaway car in a cave, installing a zipline over a gorge, putting spikes on the road to blow out tires, duh.<\/p>\n<p>When the final battle commences, pitting Rachel\u2019s six men against Salazar\u2019s 70-strong force, the combat is mostly sniper fire with vast distance between the shooters. Not many punches are thrown, and the motorcycle and helicopter chases across the island are pedestrian.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Guy Ritchie keeps repeating his old movies to diminishing returns. <span class=\"credit\">Black Bear Pictures<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Missing throughout is the humor. In his career, Ritchie has gone full badass mode, a la \u201cWrath of Man,\u201d and has leaned heavy on comedy, as in \u201cThe Gentleman.\u201d \u201cIn The Grey\u201d is, well, in the gray. The leads have some so-so jokes they don\u2019t do much with, and their characters are bland. You long for Hugh Grant to burst in and impart some personality.<\/p>\n<p>No such luck. The closest we come to some quirk is Cavill briefly pretending to be drunk while wearing a sombrero.<em> !Ay caramba!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source celebrity.land \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>movie review IN THE GREY Running time: 97 minutes. Rated R (violence, language and a sexual reference). In theaters. 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