The Usual Suspects, which McQuarrie wrote, is one of the all time great crime thrillers, so I was curious to see what else he has done, but this here neo-noir is a real pig. It is a pointless, violent flick in which pretty much every character is rotten and despicable down to the bone. OK, maybe Caan's and Lewis's characters have some redeeming qualities. But there is no one and nothing to root for. The story is silly (a screwball surrogate mom to a rich, corrupt couple gets willingly kidnapped by a couple of worthless losers/creeps, who are the heroes of the story) and much of what goes down is cliched and totally unbelievable. I wanted to be sanitized from head to toe after watching this.
Review of The Way of the Gun
