Will "In the Grey" score at least 60 on the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer?

Analysis

Guy Ritchie's 'In the Grey' stumbled out of the gate with a mediocre opening score from a thin crop of early reviews, and the picture being painted is not pretty. The cast — Cavill, Gyllenhaal, González — gets its due, but the complaints already sticking are the damaging kind: shallow plotting, a finale that fizzles, a rushed payoff that leaves you cold. One outlet has already crowned it Ritchie's worst. That's not a film building momentum. Here's the thing about Ritchie's recent action-thriller work — it consistently lands in that mid-to-high fifties zone and stays there. It doesn't climb. The weekend wave of critics rarely rescues a film that opened divided; if anything, as regional outlets pile in, these scores drift sideways or soften further. The qualitative knocks — weak story, forgettable ending — are exactly the kind that compound as more voices join the pile. Clearing the target before Monday requires a net swing of glowing reviews that simply isn't coming. The cast will sell tickets, but critics aren't ticket-buyers. This feels like a film that settles comfortably below the line and stays there. Fade it — the weekend won't deliver the rally this needs.