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	Movie-List - Reviews - The Way Of The Gun
		"Way of the Gun" stars Ryan Phillippe and Bencio Del Toro as two modern day desperadoes who are very down on their luck.
		The Way of the Gun is not a bad script, but it lacks the bleeding-edge bite The Usual Suspects had.
		The Way of the Gun is the first fully evil role Taye Diggs has played to date (on screen anyway...he played the evil landlord on the stage play Rent) and he had me convinced.
	www.movie-list.com /reviews/wayofthegun.shtml (1029 words)

	Film Reviews on CLUAS - The Way of the Gun
		Early word on 'The Way of the Gun' indicated that it was an action-heavy crime thriller with a brain.
		It certainly is loaded with guns… lots of guns, but it is way off the mark if it’s trying to be a cerebral experience.
		It’s a shame since The Way of the Gun starts with an effective sting in its tail and could have easily shaped up as a smart and witty tale of two desperados refusing society’s conventions, living instead by their weaponry.
	www.cluas.com /cinema/wayofgun.htm (431 words)

	The Way of the Gun Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		But Way of the Gun lacks the romance of the Newman/Redford vehicle, more closely resembling a different Wild Bunch, namely Sam Peckinpah's, particularly in its level of violence.
		The Way of the Gun is missing the compelling characters and exuberance that made Usual Suspects such a kick.
		In Way of the Gun's production notes, McQuarrie says that he wanted, "To tell a story without compromise and to make the audience sympathize with bad people without ever apologizing for their actions." Well, he half-succeeded — this is a tale told without compromise or apology.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=131100 (1107 words)

	THE WAY OF THE GUN movie review (with photos and clips where possible)
		Ryan Phillippe and Benicio Del Toro in "The Way of the Gun."
		"The Way of the Gun" might be said to belong to the expanding genre that wants to be film noir but winds up instead as film-festival noir.
		This is not surprising because "The Way of the Gun" is shooting blanks.
	www.rochestergoesout.com /mov/w/waygun.html (483 words)

	The Way of the Gun
		Now, five years later, he has released his first effort as a director as well as screenwriter, The Way of the Gun, and it seems as if the hiatus was a good idea on McQuarrie’s part.
		Had it been released in closer proximity to The Usual Suspects, however, the inevitable comparisons of the two films would have dubbed The Way of the Gun inferior, robbing it of the attention from moviegoing audiences it definitely deserves.
		The Way of the Gun follows two men, played by Ryan Phillipe and Benicio del Toro, who have strayed from the beaten path of morality and will do literally anything to survive.
	www.vacuumboy9.com /moviereviews/wayofgun.html (692 words)

	disinformation \| the phaedra complex: the way of the gun and bataille's annihilation
		Bitter and bizarre, Christopher McQuarrie's The Way of the Gun (2000), is a clever, confused and stylised essay on the meaning of violence.
		The Way of the Gun penetrates so far into the horror that the spectator is engaged directly with filmic sensation.
		In The Way of the Gun the line establishing hero and villain is infintesinably drawn.
	www.disinfo.com /archive/pages/article/id1824/pg1 (1133 words)

	A review of The Way of the Gun,Sept. 14, 2000
		The Way of the Gun (Rated R) Ryan Phillippe and Benicio Del Toro shoot at everything that moves and quite a few things that don't in The Way of the Gun, the latest movie from Christopher McQuarrie, the screenwriter of The Usual Suspects.
		The Way of the Gun is a Charleton Heston wet dream - every scene is armed with at least half a dozen big, loud weapons.
		The Way of the Gun lacks the spark and the superior storytelling that made The Usual Suspects such a fun ride.
	www.hippopress.com /film/wayofthegun.html (444 words)

	The Way of the Gun: SE (2000)
		Way was his first project since 1995’s Suspects, and as we learn in the commentary, he had a difficult time getting funding for anything other than another crime story, especially since he obviously wanted to direct.
		The Way of the Gun definitely isn’t a bad film, but as the de facto follow-up to a tremendous piece of work like The Usual Suspects, it seems like a definite disappointment.
		The Way of the Gun provides some moments of compelling drama and spark, but these are outweighed by its many lulls and the melodramatic pseudo soap opera it becomes.
	www.dvdmg.com /wayofthegun.shtml (1907 words)

	Way Of The Gun, The (2000): Reviews
		Way of the Gun is a self-consciously American odyssey.
		Those vaguely familiar with G.I. Gurdjieff might think of his paths to enlightenment: the way of the monk, the way of the fakir, the way of the warrior.
		I love the way these two punks are trying to find salvation and meaning - rationalization - for their ridiculously pathetic lives.
	www.metacritic.com /video/titles/wayofthegun (984 words)

	The Way of the Gun (2000)
		McQuarrie eventually gave in and wrote The Way of the Gun in a mere seven days, and after turning in the script he decided to fill the director's chair to boot.
		Parker, "the longest distance between two points is a kidnapper and his money." This certainly holds true in The Way of the Gun, as several characters enter the mix and the situation becomes very complicated.
		Essentially, the reason The Way of the Gun works is because it chooses a path to take and never once abandons it.
	www.moovees.com /review/way-of-the-gun.html (857 words)

	'Way Of The Gun, The'
		The boys try to kidnap her for ransom, only to learn they're way out of their league when they find themselves unprepared for the response of her bodyguards (Taye Diggs and Nicky Katt).
		"The Way of the Gun" is a nasty, brutish modern-day western with more gunfire than the OK Corral, dying men writhing in pain and enough torturous scenes (including one of a man being tortured) to make you cringe like a movie-theater executive declaring bankruptcy.
		The exploration of their possible better natures turns out to be largely punctuation for the action scenes, which are cleverly and excitingly staged in an enervating sort of way.
	www.post-gazette.com /movies/20000908gun.asp (524 words)

	The Way of the Gun
		The Way of the Gun is the life that two crooks, known as Parker (Ryan Phillippe, 54, Cruel Intentions) and Longbaugh (Del Toro, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Excess Baggage) live.
		The Way of the Gun is memorable for having some of the loudest gunshots in recent memory (which is not a good thing).
		The Way of the Gun may not be the best road traveled.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/way_of_the_gun.html (511 words)

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		The tube is held in position by a cup seal, pushed against the tube by a small spring and the pressure of the gas in the chamber.
		In autococker paintball guns, an adjustable valve automatically diverts compressed gas to the front of the gun after it is fired.
		Automatic guns use the compressed air, or in some cases an electric motor, to continually recock and fire the gun as long as the trigger is held down.
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	Top Box Office Movies - The Way of the Gun
		The ‘Way of the Gun’ is a dark, quasi action-drama that revolves around two peddling thieves played by the horrible Ryan Phillipe, and the incredibly talented Benecio Del Toro.
		The film can easily be compared to Tarantino’s style of writing where we have characters that go by fake aliases, they seem to be mysterious in their unknown pasts, and there is always gritty dialogue that seems to set an opinion on a certain facet of life.
		A great example of this in ‘Gun’ would be when Phillipe and Del Toro are at a sperm bank answering some questions concerning their sexual orientation, and there is a great line that closes the film, ‘all prayers are answered, but only in the way they came’.
	www.theworldjournal.com /special/movies/2001/wayofthegun.htm (759 words)

	Liquidtheater.Com: The Way of the Gun
		The Way of the Gun is a hell of a good movie.
		Way of the Gun is a modern western up there with Desperado that puts together the right elements and becomes a great movie.
		They mention it in the commentary as one of the ways they show him as a "survivor".
	liquidtheater.com /review_344.html (783 words)

	SCREEN IT! ARTISTIC REVIEW: THE WAY OF THE GUN
		Considering its title, it shouldn't come as much of a surprise to viewers that "The Way of the Gun" is one of those latter films and that, yes, it will probably play best to -- and maybe only to -- predominantly male audiences.
		While his depiction of violence isn't as realistically portrayed or on par with what was brutally presented in "Saving Private Ryan," it does have a rather straightforward aggressiveness to it, something akin to watching a pack of lions doing their thing to their prey.
		As a result, "The Way of the Gun" doesn't manage to escape that aspect of viewer apathy, and thus rates as just a 5.5 out of 10.
	www.screenit.com /ourtake/2000/the_way_of_the_gun.html (1393 words)

	The Way of the Gun
		The Way of the Gun bides its time until its Grand Guignol finale with gales of philosophical maundering.
		Way’s idea of poetry is to turn the rules of Hearts into a metaphor for loneliness, and in the cinematic equivalent of stuttering it includes scene after scene of characters failing to reach each other on their cell phones.
		Juliette Lewis, perhaps mindful of the way she alienated her one-time fans with her uncontrolled tics and grimaces, gives such a carefully bland performance that she seems to be on parole for something.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies/WayoftheGun.htm (722 words)

	A Movie Parable: The Way of the Gun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		THE WAY OF THE GUN follows two anti-heroes on their chosen path which they hope will lead to riches and glory.
		Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
		With all of its noise and fireworks, "the way of the gun" remains a poor substitute for the way that is Jesus Christ.
	www.christiancritic.com /mov2000/waygun.asp (548 words)

	Xiibaro Reviews: Shoot the Piano Player, The Way of the Gun, Nurse Betty, Fahrenheit 451, and The Watcher
		The Way of the Gun is a distraction from cinema in the most offensive sense.
		The way he tells everything by nuances as opposed to straight-out down pours set him apart from many of his contemporaries, but did not make him as respected as them.
		Of course, Chicago is SO big that there's no way anyone can find this girl, even though her face is plastered on every piece of paper around the city and on the local news.
	www.cinema-scene.com /archive/02/36.html (4252 words)

	The Way of the Gun
		Ryan Phillippe and Benicio del Toro are world-weary, seriously dead-ended criminals who kidnap a hugely pregnant Juliette Lewis in hopes of extracting mad dough from the millionaire gangster-businessman (always-wan Scott Wilson, doing a good impression of "oily") for whom she is a surrogate mother.
		As the parties make their ways across a desolate Western landscape, it turns out that Lewis is also feeling "like a prisoner" under Wilson’s thumb, so she’s more willing to go along with the messiness than any of the guys expect.
		As the lowlifes who maintain a kind of Sam Peckinpah-meets-John Huston-noir code, Phillippe and del Toro develop a fine and revealing rhythm: del Toro continues to reveal reserves of his prodigious talent, and Phillippe is simultaneously sympathetic and repulsive.
	www.citypaper.net /movies/w/wayofthegun.shtml (290 words)

	Amazon.com: The Way of the Gun: DVD: James Caan,Benicio Del Toro,Taye Diggs,Henry Griffin (II),Armando Guerrero,Jan ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Way of the Gun is now available to download for $9.98 from Amazon Unbox.
		The big selling point for The Way of the Gun is the fact that it was written and directed by Christopher McQuarrie, the guy who wrote The Usual Suspects.
		The Way of the Gun is a story of two hustlers - Mr.
	www.amazon.com /Way-Gun-James-Caan/dp/B00005QJHP (2748 words)

	The Way of the Gun (2000): Ryan Phillippe, Benicio del Toro, Juliette Lewis, Taye Diggs - PopMatters Film Review
		But civilians, by definition, can not fathom how guns work or what they mean, the way of the gun.
		The Way of the Gun piles up a lot of bodies.
		During a particularly gruesome and lengthy finale, while the men gather to point guns at one another, her worn-down body collapses in a Mexican brothel, where her doctor Allen Painter (Dylan Kussman), is forced to perform a Cesarean.
	www.popmatters.com /film/reviews/w/way-of-the-gun.html (1470 words)

	Flipside Movie Emporium: The Way of the Gun Movie Review
		The Way of the Gun can be summed up with a single word.
		The Way of the Gun spins yet another complicated story of crime and betrayal, centering on two aimless drifters (Benicio Del Toro and Ryan Phillippe) who hatch a scheme to kidnap the surrogate mother (Juliette Lewis) in the care of a rich Southwestern businessman (Scott Wilson).
		Certainly, The Way of the Gun has a passive watchability (although it's very violent, and includes some disturbing scenes of pregnant women in peril), but it never does anything new or different with its material.
	www.flipsidemovies.com /wayofthegun.html (649 words)

	The Way of the Gun movie Review at The Z Review UK movie review
		The Way of the Gun is a very bloody, but mostly amusing film that reminded of a mix between Suicide Kings and Desperado.
		However, The Way of the Gun does contain some dryness, which is something that The Usual Suspects didn't have.
		The Way of the Gun is a movie that people might call a copycat of Reservoir Dogs, in which it is similar, but different.
	www.thezreview.co.uk /reviews/w/wayofthegunthe.htm (639 words)

	SPLICEDwire \| "The Way of the Gun" review (2000)
		A belated, Tarantino-spawn crime caper picture packed with highly contrived, high-caliber gunplay and other bursts of meaningless creativity, "The Way of the Gun" is the gritty and stylish, but hollow and hyperbolic, directorial debut of "The Usual Suspects" screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie.
		A tangled and twisty yarn of dastardly deeds and double-crosses, the plot begins with a conversation between two bodyguards charged with protecting a surrogate mother (Juliette Lewis), who is carrying a baby for a crooked L.A. millionaire and his frigid, disinterested trophy wife.
		As one might expect from the guy who created Keyser Soze, "Gun" is loaded with crackerjack dialogue and wily twists, which reveal that few of these characters are what they seem at first and that everyone's loyalties are fleeting.
	www.splicedonline.com /00reviews/waygun.html (560 words)

	The Way of the Gun - Cranky Critic® Movie Reviews
		What the thugs don't know is that rich guy Hale Chidduck (Wilson) got that way by fronting for a variety of illegal enterprises, who would not be pleased to know that their money is being spent on a ransom.
		Were Cranky able to set his own price to The Way of the Gun, he would have paid...
		I'm way past the stage where going "ooo cool bullets" is enough.
	www.crankycritic.com /archive00/wayofthegun.html (781 words)

	PopMatters \| Film \| Interviews \| Ryan Phillippe - The Way of the Gun (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		You could say that the neo-violent, indie-guy genre that Way of the Gun appears to fit — superficially anyway — is not so subversive anymore.
		We don't do any of the double-fisted gun moves, we stayed away from all the BS that looks cool; we wanted it to look like surveillance footage rather than some of those movies that tend to get masturbatory, just in coolness.
		You should in no way emulate these guys, but at the same time, everybody's heard the comments they make, or has experience with these stifled ideas about the world, about gays, or whatever.
	www.popmatters.com /film/interviews/phillippe-ryan.shtml (1849 words)

	The Way of the Gun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Way of the Gun is a 2000 film, directed by Christopher McQuarrie and starring Ryan Phillippe, Benicio Del Toro, Juliette Lewis, Taye Diggs, Nicky Katt, and James Caan.
		It looks like all is lost except, right in the middle of his work, the doctor pulls a gun out of his bag and shoots and kills Jeffers in the throat.
		The gun battle sequences throughout the film were choreographed by Christopher McQuarrie's brother, a former Navy SEAL.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Way_of_the_Gun (1041 words)

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