What a cool film! I laughed more in the intro with Sarah Silverman than I have in any recent comedy.

It is all about the attention to detail in this film. There are tons of little things I could bring up that make this film a masterpiece, but I'll just bring up my personal favourite. The scene where Mr. Parker dives into the $15,000,000 fountain is an amazing moment. See this movie yourself in order to understand what I'm referring to.

Certainly liked RP a lot more than I usually do. Del Toro is badass as always and James Caan delivers.

Pretty great dialogue and the last shootout is baaadass.

What an underrated gem! I have no clue why this movie isn't talked about more. Brilliant screenplay by Christopher McQuarrie (The Usual Suspects); great dialogue, well written characters, fantastic performances, unpredictable plot - has a lot going for it. Loved it.

Cool, tough, nicely directed and written with amazing scenes of gunplay.

And of course; Sarah Silverman being punched repeatedly in the face.

Tight, pulpy thriller has quick-witted dialogue, hugely enjoyable set-pieces and a twisty narrative, which excuse the thin characterization that otherwise runs through it. Writer/director Chris McQuarrie has always supplied his work with energy and narrative purpose, "The Way of The Gun" suitably old fashioned and gripping in the way it blends western shoot-out mechanics with kidnap caper misdeeds. Much smarter than your average Hollywood thriller. [B+]

@Camdun_Roar: McQuarrie has a way with words but a problem with pacing. He wrote crazy action scenes around a soap opera plot 5.75/10

It is all about the attention to detail in this film. There are tons of little things I could bring up that make this film a masterpiece, but I'll just bring up my personal favourite. The scene where Mr. Parker dives into the $15,000,000 fountain is an amazing moment. See this movie yourself in order to understand what I'm referring to.

Christopher McQuarrie, writer of The Usual Suspects made his directorial debut with this film, and he hit a home run. Sadly, most people never saw it or took notice.

It's a great piece of work. Phillippe and Del Toro shine in the lead roles, supported by stellar turns by Taye Diggs, Nicky Katt, James Caan, and others. The film starts off with a great laugh that sets up the characters perfectly. From there it only gets better, culminating in a masterfully directed old-school gunfight.

McQuarrie is only just now finally getting the attention he deserves, directing Jack Reacher and the next Mission: Impossible film. I can't wait to see anything he does in the future.

The brutal violence is undercut with some beautifully minimalist poetic lyricism, and if it weren't for something of a convoluted plot, as well as a particular characters wildly confusing flux in motivation, this would probably have garnered a much higher rating.

Phillippe and Del Toro are seamless together, swaggering and badass, emotionally poignant drifters, McQuarrie creates two criminals that combine the soulful and the decrepit, and they carry it off tremendously well.

The film probably could be defined as a modern western, some of the sequences, especially the final shoot out, are some uproarious bloodletting, scenes Peckinpah himself would be proud of.

It's a shame it's so under seen, the verbose philosophical wit, and its downright refusal to betray its characters are key elements so preciously devalued in today's cinematic landscape.

I'd never heard of this until after I'd seen McQuarrie's Jack Reacher and it really surprised me. Quick & vicious, it's a cracking watch. And I honestly don't think I've heard such creative cursing in a film before.

The characters played by Ryan Phillipe and Benicio del Toro are amazing, a sort of nihilistic and misanthropic Butch and Sundance, and I honestly wish they had been placed in a better film.

Because they're not the heroes of this story, despite being the ostensible leads. They're just two goons who stumble into an incredibly convoluted series of double crossings and backstabbings involving the mob and a surrogate mother. And that story? It's really boring, even if it does feature Juliette Lewis at maybe her very best.

good action sequences and jokes here and there but the story just felt disorientated towards the end