The Gunman

Vorlage:Use mdy dates Vorlage:Infobox film The Gunman is a 2015 American action thriller film directed by Pierre Morel and written by Don Macpherson, Pete Travis and Sean Penn, based on the novel The Prone Gunman, by Jean-Patrick Manchette. It stars Penn, with Idris Elba, Ray Winstone, Mark Rylance, and Javier Bardem appearing in supporting roles. The film was released on March 20, 2015 by Open Road Films.

Plot

An ex-soldier who carried out an assassination in the Democratic Republic of Congo finds his past catching up with him eight years later.

Cast

Sean Penn

• Sean Penn as Jim Terrier
• Jasmine Trinca as Annie
• Javier Bardem as Felix
• Ray Winstone as Stanley
• Mark Rylance as Cox
• Idris Elba as DuPont
• Peter Franzén as Reiniger
• Billy Billingham as Reed
• Daniel Adegboyega as Bryson
• Ade Oyefeso as Eugene

Production

Development

c. January 2013, French action director Pierre Morel (Taken) entered negotiations to direct Sean Penn in Prone Gunman, an action thriller being produced by Silver Pictures’ Joel Silver and Andrew Rona. The film is based on the 1981 novel The Prone Gunman by Jean-Patrick Manchette. The project, from Silver Pictures, was fully financed by StudioCanal, who sold out rights to the film at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.

In May 2013, Deadline reported that Javier Bardem would play a villain. In June, Deadline said that Ray Winstone had just joined the film. He played a mentor of the hitman (Penn), who is betrayed and then hunted by the organization he worked for. Jasmine Trinca is the female lead. Bardem played Trinca’s husband, and Elba played a mysterious operative named Dupont.

On May 8, 2014, Open Road Films acquired the US distribution rights to the film.

Filming

Principal photography took place in the spring of 2013 in several locales across Europe.

Reception

Box office

Vorlage:As of, The Gunman has grossed $5 million, against a budget of $40 million.

The film grossed $5 million in its opening weekend, finishing at 4th at the box office.

Critical reception

The Gunman has received generally negative reviews from critics. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 13% approval rating, based on 120 reviews, with a rating average of 4.3/10. The site's consensus reads, "With an uninspired plot and rote set pieces that are overshadowed by its star's physique, The Gunman proves a muddled misfire in the rapidly aging Over-50 Action Hero genre." On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating, the film has a score of 39 out of 100, based on 38 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".

Critic Dave Palmer gave the film a 3/10, saying, “The Gunman has all the looks and feel of a mid-day soap opera, but the razor-sharp excitement of a mid-day soap opera".

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