Sean Penn, who co-scripted, plays an ex-mercenary haunted by his assassination of a Congolese mining minister. Eight years later, now a damaged man in more ways than one, Penn discovers that someone with knowledge of his past has put out a contract on his life. Penn spends as much of the movie as possible shirtless so as to show off his impressive physique, and in one scene even taps into his inner Spicoli and catches a few African waves.
Less incendiary than one might expect for a Joel Silver production, The Gunman is an action movie that wants desperately to be an art film, aiming for poetic moments like that in which a battered and dying assassin is juxtaposed with a matador’s speared bull. The action, once the movie gets around to it, however, should be brutal enough to compensate for the more pretentious material. There is also a love triangle to keep the women interested.
4 out of 5 stars. Ideological Content Analysis indicates that The Gunman is:
6. Anti-tobacco. “That’s really healthy,” Ray Winstone says sarcastically on seeing Penn light a cigarette.
5. Anti-marriage. Penn’s love interest (Jasmine Trinca) regards her creepy husband (Javier Bardem) as a creditor, her loveless wifely duties the repayment of an obligation.
4. Multiculturalist and pro-immigration. European-accented non-white professionals put in a good word for immigrants’ ability to assimilate into western societies. London and Barcelona appear as peaceful and orderly multi-ethnic metropolises. Penn atones for his sins by working to improve the lives of Africans.
3. Ostensibly anti-war. Rape and machete attacks are noted as weapons of war in the Congo. Penn’s combat experience has left him with brain damage.
2. Anti-capitalistic. Corporatocracy is behind the world’s evils, with the “growing demand of the western world” to blame for the Congo’s sufferings.
1. Globalist, giving the false impression that NGOs (non-governmental organizations) are strictly humanitarian and apolitical entities. In reality, NGOs are frequently the unconventional tools of Zio-American foreign policy and therefore have been dubbed “missionaries of empire”. Brit-accented television reporters – still more tools of Zio-American globe-grasping – are presented as reliable sources of information. That the poster has the chutzpah to say both “armed with the truth” and “from the director of Taken” probably says all that prospective viewers need to know.
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The hero the world needs now:
I’ve got the perfect sidekick for him:
I saw that movie.
Everybody needs a dog like that these days!
The movie Taken was written by a NYC Jew, Robert Mark Kamen, it was a Neocon propaganda movie made to trash the people that the jews don’t like (French, Muslims,).
I’ll confess to having enjoyed Taken quite a bit – but, yeah, it’s total neocon rubbish.
“Armed with the truth”? Yeah, right. What a crock!
Here! Now you are armed with the truth!:
https://murderbymedia3.wordpress.com/
Oops! Sorry, this is what I meant to post:
NOW you are all armed with the truth!
At least they’re honest vermin.
Do you know anybody who speaks French? I’d like to verify what they are saying before I start spamming that around.
Hi ICA Reviews, this is Karen, Smart White Guy’s friend. The gal whose voice you can hear in his videos. You can ask him to verify this because I mentioned to him in person here in his apartment about writing to you in e-mail. Yes, it really is me! sugar_cookie_daisies at yahoo e-mail address. I put it that way here so the bots don’t see it because so far that is a Spam-Free email box which they haven’t found yet. I bet my letters to you wound up in your SPAM Folder. I wanted to say hello and ask you to please furnish me with your address where you can receive the books he promised you because I’d like to get the ball rolling on that.
It is great to talk to you! Thank you for explaining to me how to properly pronounce your handle here. I understand you hate I Care Views! 🙂 GREAT blog you have and thank you so much for giving “Smart White Guy” so many comments on his Weed Whacker thing. You’re almost the only one who takes the time to do that, or you *are* the only one to do that. I’m sure he really appreciates you and your kindness in leaving him comments and chatting with him when he feels down. Yeah, the dentist the other day did not furnish him with the basic cleaning and tooth & gum care he was hoping to get!
He suffers from bleeding gums so that was a big disappointment, as he wants to save his teeth. I will call them today though and see exactly how much they want for that “DEEP cleaning” they apparently insist upon which is different from a basic cleaning. I don’t know why they don’t just go ahead and at least give him a basic cleaning and some sort of gum treatment, to start him off.
I understand you felt sick recently or fairly recently and I hope you’re feeling much better now. So nice to communicate with you and say hello! Happy 2016!
Sorry, I haven’t checked my email for a couple of days. Yahoo Mail is having some kind of technical problem right now, but I already gave him the address in one of the last emails I sent him. I can send it again as soon as Yahoo works its kinks out.
lol. I actually thought it was ICareViews, too… like “I, CareViews”… “I, CareBears”… until just now. This website now makes much more sense.
Thank you so much ICAreviews for e-mailing me! And Adastra…oh he hates…hates…HATES “I Care Views”. 😉