Gentlemen film review
Hem / Kultur, Media & Underhållning / Gentlemen film review
Dockery truly shined as the “Queen” and had some good moments. role/character. There’s always one layer between us and the characters.
I could have lived without the running jokes about “funny-sounding names” (it’s “Sixteen Candles“‘ “Long Duk Dong” all over again), and I could have lived without the scene where a rape is threatened.
Even so, the movie is so well made, it won't really matter. However, after making an offer to a rival drug kingpin, suddenly everything goes haywire....folks start dying, farms growing the stuff are hit and an all-out war seems inevitable. Matthew McConaughey is in his element in a role that he was born to play, Charlie Hunnam plays one of the coolest characters I've seen perfectly, Colin Farrell is hilarious and ridiculously cool as well and then Hugh Grant gives one of the best performances I've ever seen from him.
But the whole film is so cardboard and low-quality that it looks as if the director's imagination has completely run out.
10/10
What an excellent film
Every now and again I go to the cinema and watch a film that grabs my attention straight away and keeps it right to the end.
Their charisma and talent for delivering witty one-liners are on full display. The “gentlemen” of the title is clearly meant sarcastically.
How all of this fits together is almost wholly in the hands of Hugh Grant, who gives an extraordinary performance, considering the circumstances. Mickey Pearson (Matthew McConaughey) is an American who sees an opportunity in the languishing English aristocracy.
There's WAY more to the story than this...but since it's so complex, it's best you just see it to appreciate it.
The bottom line is that Guy Ritchie can write and direct amazing films...and this one is truly amazing and entertaining. If you've seen any of Ritchie's previous similar films ('Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels', 'Snatch', 'RocknRolla') then you know what I'm talking about.
But you’re riveted by him.
There’s one moment where he puts his hand on Hunnam’s knee, realizes it’s an unwelcome touch, that he’s been busted at inappropriate groping, and he then goes into this wild pop-eyed, “Oopsie #sorrynotsorry” facial expression. This is a whole different class of film
6/10
Bit clunky!
This is a typical Guy Ritchie film.
Huge props to the cinematographer Alan Stewart, who complemented the plot, action, and acting with his talent for camera work.
The cast was also spectacular. There's one moment where he puts his hand on Hunnam's knee, realizes it's an unwelcome touch, and goes into this wild pop-eyed, "Oopsie #sorrynotsorry" facial expression.
The script, which Ritchie co-wrote with Ivan Atkinson and Marn Davies, plays around with genre tropes, but the overriding structure is Fletcher "pitching" his script to an increasingly horrified Ray. This "pitch" goes on for the entirety of the film, and so as scenes unfold, it is as though the scenes emanate from Fletcher's imagination, when in reality we are seeing what really happened.
Special credit goes to Colin Farrell and his acting.
We dont really get movies like this anymore. This movie shows off both of those skills to perfection. Let me know in the comments below. Just 400 million British Pounds.
As the news of that gets around a number of shady operators want to get their cuts from a number of devious means.
There’s much that is legitimately funny in “The Gentlemen” and much that is legitimately disturbing. Because Grant is so singularly entertaining, and so broad (and yet connected) in his characterization and line readings (“There’ll be blood and fucking feathers everywhere, darling,” he croons with relish), he acts as his own gravitational force.
It's worth a sequel and there will be.
The story starts with one drug lord selling his empire to another businessman.