New Zealand Listener
Ritchie’s screenplay laughs in the face of the “show, don’t tell” maxim and when a character asks, “Why are you wasting our time?”, you wonder the same thing.
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The Gentlemen
Crooks are trying to steal a marijuana tycoon's (Matthew McConaughey) business out from under him in this action comedy from Guy Ritchie.
When American expat and businessman Mickey Pearson (McConaughey) decides to cash out of his vast marijuana empire, a slew of shady characters come out of the woodwork, looking to part him with his holdings in sinister ways.
2020Rating: 18, D L S113 minsUSA
ActionComedyCrime
- Director:
- Guy Ritchie ('Snatch', 'Aladdin (2019)', 'Sherlock Holmes')
- Writer:
- Guy Ritchie
- Cast:
- Matthew McConaugheyColin FarrellCharlie HunnamMichelle DockeryHenry GoldingHugh GrantJeremy StrongBrittany Ashworth
The Gentlemen / Reviews
Sydney Morning Herald
While Ritchie’s gangsters are as impatient as ever, preferring to settle an argument with a gun rather than a conversation, he steers clear of sadism. It’s his wit which energises the film and shapes the characters – with a lot of help from his actors. A couple of them have talked happily of his habit of encouraging them to improvise, along with his nimbleness in being able to re-write a scene in the space of a day. That’s the kind of zest which permeates the whole film.
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Stuff
Mid-career, Ritchie is right back where he started. If you think that's a good thing, then have at it.
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Independent
What's missing is any of the genuine grittiness that made Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels worth paying attention to in the first place. The Gentlemen feels long past its sell-by-date.
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FilmInk
It certainly won't be everyone's cup of tea, but for those who missed the old Guy Ritchie and his verbose, iconic gangsters, The Gentlemen will go down better than a pint and a pickled egg.
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Screen Daily
While recycling the familiar, leaning on stylised violence and unleashing a flurry of self-satisfied dialogue have long been the writer/director's specialty, this isn't a return to form.
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Empire Magazine
What it lacks in freshness and depth, The Gentlemen certainly makes up for in cartoon-y bluster and fun details. Welcome home, Mr. Ritchie.
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Hollywood Reporter
Ritchie's homecoming is a fairly familiar affair, but also refreshingly funny and deftly plotted, with more witty lines and less boorish machismo than his early work.
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Variety
A knockabout all-star return to the underworld that feigns to remind us who its director really is, but feels, in most respects, like a hedging of bets.
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Daily Telegraph
The Gentlemen is a mid-life-crisis movie, and I don't mean that as a criticism: it's keen to give its beloved old guard the last laugh in a fast-changing world.
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