Possibly inspired by...

...my righteous fisking of the AFI Top 100 movie quotes list, I went out an purchased "The Way Of the Gun" yesterday. (Only $5.50 at Wal-Mart, yo!) It's much better than I remembered it, back when I rented it in a fit of Chris McQuarrie fandom. Definitely worth the $5. Although it's not directed with the same verve and flourish as was his other screenwriting credit, the script is just as good, if a bit more linear in its narrative, and is loaded with trademark McQuarrie-isms:

• "Karma's justice without the satisfaction. I don't believe in justice."
• "I promise you a day of reckoning that you won't live long enough to never forget."
• "There's always free cheese in a mousetrap."

The best part is that the actors are so good that you can completely believe that their characters would toss off these little bullets of wisdom without even thinking twice about how ridiculously cool they (the lines) are. Even the otherwise loathsome Ryan Phillipe does an admirable job, and of course Benicio Del Toro is astounding.