This week Mary and Dave start off their new series McQuarrying by watching Christopher McQuarrie’s directorial debut The Way of the Gun starring the deadpan Benicio Del Toro and the might-be-dead pan of Ryan Phillippe.

A neo-noir – with its ’90s irony-laced heart very much on its sleeve. Two lowlife losers kidnap the surrogate mother of the wrong man. Mayhem and gunfire ensue.

It should have been a fun, smart crime thriller, but it isn’t. Why? Well, let Dave and Mary fansplain it for you.