“The Gentlemen” has a huge amount of gusto, a slew of quirky performances and a reasonable amount of wit
WITH A ROSTER of different directors and screenwriters, the “Star Wars”, Marvel and DC franchises have shown that you can make a colossal blockbuster based on someone else’s characters and still imbue it with your own film-making personality. That is a trick that Guy Ritchie has never quite mastered. During his last decade in Hollywood, the British writer-director has been entrusted with intellectual property after intellectual property, directing two “Sherlock Holmes” films, “The Man from U.N.
The largest of those characters is Mickey , an American marijuana baron based in London. He has built underground hothouses on the country estates of the cash-strapped landed gentry, but is planning to sell up and retire in comfort. His beloved cockney wife warns him that this plan will be taken as a sign of weakness by his competitors, and, sure enough, his loyal lieutenant is soon struggling to keep a whole pack of wolves from his door.
When he is being restrained, viewers end up with “Aladdin”, a dull theme-park ride which did not aspire to be anything except an inferior live-action remake of a cartoon. When he shrugs off all restraint, as he does here, the result has a huge amount of gusto, a slew of quirky performances and a reasonable amount of wit. “You need to invest in some parachutes,” grumbles Mickey after Ray has let not one, but two of his associates plummet to their deaths from high buildings.
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