(CNN) After recent studio fare like "Aladdin" and the Sherlock Holmes movies, director Guy Ritchie gets back to his "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" indie mode with "The Gentlemen," just stocked with an inordinately good cast. Filled with crosses and double crosses, the plot is mostly irrelevant, but the outlandish flourishes make for a good deal of foul-mouthed fun. There are, naturally, a host of complications, with multiple interested parties all looking for their slice of the pie, frequent bursts of violence and plenty of colorful (and occasionally racially offensive) nicknames. Mickey operates by his own sort of gentleman's code, giving McConaughey a chance to play him with a suave bravado that, alas, seems a little too reminiscent of his car-commercial persona . Fortunately, Grant and Farrell are consistently amusing in a highly eccentric way, and Dockery gets to show off her bad-gal side, about as far from Lady Mary as one can get.

Source: CNN January 24, 2020 14:15 UTC