The director goes back to his crime caper roots, firing Matthew McConaughey and Colin Farrell at Downton’s Michelle Dockery and a cockney Hugh Grant. Sort that out
Guy Ritchie is course-correcting. After spending the last few years churning out largely anonymous big-budget FILM seemingly to order, he has now returned to his roots. The Gentlemen is a Guy Ritchie film in the classic sense, in that it looks like a better-executed version of something that Danny Dyer would have starred in seven or eight years ago. It’s a crime caper, it’s set in
London, and it stars everyone.
No, really, it stars everyone. And better yet, if the
trailer is any indication, everyone gets to do doing something that’s differently but equally preposterous. Here, for your pleasure, is a ranking of all them from least preposterous to most.