So it’s largely a chase movie with Six jumping through a series of countries, meeting up with people he needs help from, sometimes getting betrayed, sometimes being caught up with by Lloyd or other mercs trying to get a bounty on him. Lloyd ambushes Fitzroy at a funeral (presumably for the guy Six just killed) and reveals that they’ve kidnapped his beloved niece Claire (Julia Butters, ONCE UPON A TIME …IN HOLLYWOOD), forcing him to help them find/kill Six. To track down Six and the drive, Carmichael hires Lloyd Hansen (Chris Evans, STREET KINGS), a guy who was kicked out of the CIA for being too much of a maniac even for the CIA, who now works as a freelancer so that he can be hired by the CIA to do the things they supposedly aren’t allowed to do.
When Carmichael acts suspicious about it on the phone Six decides to mail the drive to a retired handler he trusts (Alfre Woodard, CROOKLYN) and go on the run. It stars Ryan Gosling ( ONLY GOD FORGIVES) as “Six,” a guy who was doing time for murder until a spook named Fitzroy (Billy Bob Thornton, ON DEADLY GROUND) got him released in exchange for dedicating his life to being a secret government assassin, or “Sierra.” One day on a mission in Bangkok he takes out a target (Callan Mulvey, BEYOND SKYLINE) who, before dying, gives him an encrypted drive he says has the dirt on Carmichael (Regé-Jean Page, MORTAL ENGINES), his new boss at the CIA who pushed Fitzroy out. Almost like they’re in the movie business. Showed it to critics a week early, had the directors do interviews and stuff, as if they want people to know it’s there and maybe watch it. THE GRAY MAN is the new Netflix movie that they put so much into they’re actually doing promotion for it.