Now, Brit filmmaker Guy Ritchie quite triumphantly returns to the genre that made his rep: the hard-boiled crime drama with a rather high quotient of cool and/or funny bits. As Pearson courts a prospective buyer, a hungry rival starts circling the deal with a hostile takeover in mind. A recurring theme in the movie seems to be the headlong clash between seasoned old-timers and hungry young up-and-comers. Ritchie’s virtuoso conducting also serves to delay our realisation that The Gentlemen is actually stuffed to the gills with familiar gangster genre tropes and trick. So crammed, in fact, that just one more wafer-thin mint of (gentle)manly swagger would leave us covered in its exploded guts.

Source: The Star February 13, 2020 04:52 UTC