The gentlemen is the return of Guy Ritchie, that eternal aspiring Tarantino cockney , to the low-rise pyrepires who defined the character of his first films. In fact, his new film moves in waters similar to those of his debut in the late 1990s with Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels: those of marijuana trafficking. The gentlemen is a convoluted comic thriller about a mega drug lord of fashion: the herb, "the new gold rush." A green-godfather with a US passport (Matthew McConaughey) who has created an empire with the collusion of the island's large families, who in exchange for cash lend their magnificent lands to cultivate the playful and medicinal drug.
THE GENTLEMEN
Direction : Guy Ritchie
I entered pretes : Matthew McConaughey, Charlie Hunnam, Colin Farrell, Hugh Grant, Jeremy Strong.
Gen nero : Thriller, black comedy. United States, 2019
Duration : 113 minutes
The film is fun (even at very funny times) but with such a hysterical rhythm (house brand) and so overloaded with references, autoparodic winks and tongue twisters that more than marijuana seems injected with pure amphetamine. It occurs in the low funds but low backgrounds so neat and gentrified that more than the smell of a barrel and vomit the aroma is that of the craft beer of a trendy gastropub. A rosary of brands (only in sunglasses advertising is served) and expensive clothes of that new London of football players and new rich that in the two decades that have passed since Ritchie's first film have transfigured the English capital.
The entanglement is narrated by a hound played by Hugh Grant, who neglects his accent and his usual characters on the screen to give life with his usual grace to a rogue detective paid by the director of a tabloid. A Ritchie loses his taste for verbal and visual noise but is right with the tone (sometimes at the pace of Paul Jones's Free me , others of The Jam 's Ententeiment ) and with a group of actors capable of following the spiritual path- Comic-violent characteristic of a playful cinema that follows the structure of the humorous sketch . The presence of Grant, Charlie Hunnam (in the skin of hipster thug) and that of the always great Mathew McConaughey make it easier to digest so many different dishes. Although in an unexpected way it is Colin Farrell who in the skin of a cartoon boxing gym coach explodes his most parodic vein with a secondary character who directly steals the film from the rest of the cast.
