Carpe_diem_

Gray Man is an extremely mediocre movie made with a whooping $200 million budget. The casting is all wrong. For starters, Ryan Gosling doesn't look tough at all with a poker face. It just seems like he is struggling to remember his lines. Chris Evans makes a laughable villain, especially with his moustache. Half way through the movie he transforms into shot-caller from a CIA assassin. You can't help but wonder if the director forgot what Evans' role was supposed to be. Regé-Jean Page is anything but a menacing CIA shot-caller. Billy Bob Thornton is the only saving grace in this movie. The dialogues are laughable: Evans childishly orders his team "kill him dead". After his team spectacularly fails to catch Gosling, he says, "what I can do can't be taught." The action sequences will make you yawn despite the numerous explosions packed into one movie. All this makes you ask the $200 mil question: where exactly was the money spent?

Without the wittiness, Gray Man doesn't even pass off as a parody of Jason Bourne movies. It is just a B-grade movie with A-List actors.

Rizzoli and Isles is a decent attempt to highlight female leads in the field of police work in which primarily we see male actors. Rizzoli is the tomboy detective and Isles is the fashionista cum Chief Medical Examiner. Both are brilliant at their jobs. The banter between the two does make one smile. Though the police cases are good with plot twists in the end, the show lacks novelty. To be fair that's the case with most police procedurals.

The issue with the plots is that family drama that takes up 50% of the time in a single episode. Agree that the audience needs to connect with the main characters to get hooked to the show, however, this shows takes that element too far. Since this really bungled up what could have been a pretty Good Cop Show with Female Leads, I am going with a 6/10 for Rizzoli & Isles.