'Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre' Review: Guy Ritchie's Spy Caper Struggles to Find a Tone That Works

'Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre,' Guy Ritchie's latest starring Jason Statham and Aubrey Plaza, feels like a movie fighting with itself over what it wants to be. Our review:

If you squint, you can kind of make out the type of movie Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre wants to be. Had everything gone right here, the end result would be a light-hearted riff on the Mission: Impossible template that swaps out that franchise's big-budget, stunt-heavy spectacle for a smaller, funnier adventure that doesn't take itself so seriously and is more than happy to coast on its B-movie charms.

There's no reason this can't work. But, for that to happen, the script needs to be strong enough to cover for a budget that's small by today's action-movie standards, and the cast needs to be united on a common goal -- whether it's spoofing the genre, gently tweaking it, or flat-out reveling in it. After seeing the movie, I honestly don't think I can tell you which one Ritchie and company were aiming for.

That brings us to Operation Fortune's one bright and shining light: Cary Elwes, who is the one person who seems to understand exactly what this movie needs to properly function. Elwes is fun to watch every single moment he's on screen. He takes the material completely seriously, but uses a deft touch to inject each scene with warmth and humor. It almost feels like this role should serve as an audition to get into him into a bigger, better action series...

There's one scene in particular where Fortune has to escape an armed compound. First, we see him on the receiving end of an apparent gunshot, then we quickly jump forward to see him safely back with the team, then the film flashes backward to show who actually took the bullet we heard being fired, and then it flashes back once more to finally show a complete picture of how the whole escape played out. It's a lot of work for a sequence that really isn't that impressive to begin with.

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