The moment you throw in a title card referencing Taken, it’s hard not to think, “Oh, this is just Sean Penn doing the Liam Neeson thing,” but based on this new trailer for Pierre Morel’s The Gunman, it does seem as though the stakes could be high enough to bring the film beyond watching an accomplished actor run around and take out bad guys, and actually give you a little something to think about. Penn steps in as James Terrier, a hired killer who’s eager to ditch his gig and just settle down, but first he’s got to make it through “a deadly cat and mouse game” in order to clear his name.
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