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Guy RitchieCinematography:
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Christopher BensteadCast:
Jason Statham, Aubrey Plaza, Josh Hartnett, Cary Elwes, Hugh Grant, Bugzy Malone, Eddie Marsan, Max Beesley, Lourdes Faberes, Peter Ferdinando, Tom Rosenthal (more)VOD (1)
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Super spy Orson Fortune and his team of top operatives recruit Hollywood’s biggest movie star, Danny Francesco, to help them on an undercover mission to stop billionaire arms broker Greg Simmonds from selling a deadly new weapons technology that threatens to disrupt the world order. (Lionsgate US)
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Guy Ritchie's Mission: Impossible wannabe. And not bad at all. It would rather rank among the more accomplished in the series (solid plotting, the action is both rich and old-fashioned), though it's the least inventive because it sticks too closely to the genre rules.
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Orson Fortune and his team must prevent the sale of a weapon that could threaten the entire world. To do so, they must get close to a dangerous adversary, and they're going to use a Hollywood superstar to do it. Guy Ritchie delivers an entertaining action-spy comedy that's driven forward by a particularly likeable cast. Unfortunately, they're a bit undermined by a muddled script, which often makes the story pause unnecessarily and deal with irrelevancies, only to have to unnecessarily plunge forward a few moments later. It's not boring, but one expects a bit more from Ritchie and Statham.
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Guy Ritchie is a terribly ambivalent and strange director. His name has been resonating in the film world for the last year for the absolute top of the action genre, Wrath of Man, but now he throws us such a dreadfully average thing as Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre. And when I say average, I mean literally average in every way. The acting is terribly bland, none of the three stars, Jason Statham, Hugh Grant, and Aubrey Plaza, have iconic roles, they are typical B-movie characters with no interesting traits, and there's only two action sequences towards the end, and they also suck. There's no action, above average fights, shootouts or hand-to-hand combat, and then the story is a despicable template full of bland clichés. And the humour? Zero! The whole film is completely devoid of ideas, effort and any kind of fun. In fact, I have to say that for the first time in a long time, I looked at my watch in the cinema and if I had watched the film at home, I probably wouldn't have finished it. Extremely mediocre crap that I won't remember a week later. And it pisses me all the more because this was spawned by a guy like Ritchie, everyone will compare it to Wrath of Man, and that's the stumbling block that drives the film's rating into drastic below-average territory. All I ask after watching it is WHY.
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This is exactly the kind of film that would have blown producers away in the 90s. It just needs better dialogue with at least one memorable line and a lead actor who captivates you from start to finish. Unfortunately, Jason Statham doesn’t quite hit the mark these days. He lacks both the charisma and the punchy lines that made 90s action heroes so entertaining. Still, unlike in the 90s, he’s one of the few actors who continues to make films like this.
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It is missing some visual highlight, some memorable scene that would make you want to watch it again. But otherwise it is a pretty solid film, and I could easily see Guy Ritchie as the new Bond director, though he probably doesn't even aspire to that, he's comfortable in the company of those weird underworld folks. Hugh Grant is an excellent sleazeball, Jason Statham is just Jason Statham, the same kind of actor that makes us love him so much, and Aubrey Plaza is a sweetheart when she's not all made up and trying to look sexy (she's really bad at that), but the one that was pleasantly surprised me was Josh Hartnett. I don't understand what messed up the career of this fun and charismatic guy, but hopefully after this and Oppenheimer it will get better.
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