Long before director and writer Christopher McQuarrie was collaborating with Tom Cruise on Jack Reacher and numerous installments of the Mission: Impossible franchise, including the latest titled Mission: Impossible –Dead Reckoning Part One, he made his directorial debut with the underrated crime drama The Way of the Gun.
The Oscar-winning screenwriter’s 2000 film is a tough-as-nails crime thriller starring Ryan Phillippe and Benicio Del Toro as two criminal drifters Parker and Longbaugh who kidnap a surrogate mother for ransom and find themselves involved in something much more complicated than a simple kidnapping.
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