The Way of the Gun (2000)
A twisting crime drama about two cold-blooded career criminals who kidnap a surrogate mother and find themselves in an escalating cycle of guns and mayhem. (Artisan Entertainment)
Cast and Information
Directed By: Christopher McQuarrie
Written By: Christopher McQuarrie
Starring: James Caan, Geoffrey Lewis, Juliette Lewis, Benicio Del Toro, Sarah Silverman, Ryan Phillippe, Scott Wilson, Taye Diggs, Nicky Katt, Kristin Lehman, Dylan Kussman
Genres: Drama, Suspense/Thriller, Crime, Action
Country: USA
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The Way of the Gun belongs to 17 collections
1. Onion AV Club: The New Cult Canon (collaborative: moderated by theficionado - 28 stars)
2. They Shoot Pictures' Recommended Viewing (collaborative: moderated by Cinephile - 19 stars)
3. Directorial debut (collaborative: moderated by djross - 16 stars)
4. Films available in HD (collaborative: moderated by kubricksucks - 13 stars)
5. Great Fights (collaborative: moderated by doctor7 - 6 stars)
6. Tarantino-esque Movies (That Tarantino Didn't Make) (collaborative: moderated by BeeDub - 2 stars)
7. Netflix Watch Instantly (public: dgeiser13 - 2 stars)
8. Coheed's Celluloid Pit (public: Coheed - 1 star)
9. Available on Starz (public: Jason212 - 1 star)
10. Submitted by blank (collaborative)
11. Ongoing list of under rated films (collaborative: moderated by JSchlansky)
12. Available on Divicast (collaborative: moderated by Dunstan-xxx)
13. Luna6ix's DVDs (public: Luna6ix)
14. action_worth_watching (public: twisp)
15. Watched in 2011 (public: dgeiser13)
16. 2000: Year in Review (public: polanski28)
17. Filmspotting Ratings Project: Week 25 (public: PeaceAnarchy)
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Paxton | 65 45th |
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The Way of the Gun plays like some kind of From Dusk Till Dawn without any vampires in it. Yet it's nowhere near as good as that should be.
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grimsooth | 87 93rd |
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Everyone is out to find their way and their fortune, in this case those goals are conflicting. The life of criminals is a ruff one, and not too far from our own.
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doctor7 | 90 91st |
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Great dialog and extremely well written with lots of sub-plots that will probably force you to watch the movie multiple times in order to fully understand them. Ryan Phillippe earned my respect with his role in this movie and Benicio Del Toro is, as usual, fantastic. The action scenes are inventive and it features of the the most memorable car chases you will ever see. As well the opening scene is by far the most attention grabbing one I have ever seen.
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Pickpocket | 7 68th |
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The opening scene and the scene after where they are donating sperm are the best scenes in the movie. It doesn't fall apart after that but those first 2 scenes are incredibly witty and funny and well written. Del Toro is amazing in this and really steals every scene he's in. The gun fights are well done and Peckinpah-esque but sometimes the story gets stale and some of the actors don't make sense (Taye Diggs, Nicky Katt) and drag down the scenes they are in. Good but could've been better
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| 1 | easymac742 | 36 1st |
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Funny first two minutes. Nice gunfight at the end. Everything in the middle was a waste of my time. This was the Oscar-winning writer of The Usual Suspects?!
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Obdurate | 85 80th |
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This just felt fun, which I was completely okay with. It didn't require complex characters, just entertaining action and a twisting plot. It had both, so in my eyes it is a huge success. With that said, while I wouldn't say that the characters will be memorable in years to come, I was still into them. Really enjoyed the dialogue and the interactions between people, along with the pretty absurd (and awesome) situations that they were put in, like giving birth during a shootout or that car chase.
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graveyardtan | 30 7th |
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Ahh! The fountain is filled with broken beer bottles. C-sections errywhere! Post Pulp Fiction crap.
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eCitizen | 91 90th |
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An excellent shoot-em up with plenty of action and excitement. The two kidnappers, Ryan Phillippe and Benicio Del Toro, are originally protrayed as amateurs but are pretty shrewd gunmen. James Caan played an overly confident bagman. Everyone was corrupt in some way, and nobody could be trusted. Great plot, fun to watch, and new twist and turns every few minutes. Well worth watching, as there were many memorable scenes.
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| Average Percentile 49.65% from 982 Ratings |  |