{"id":2035,"date":"2020-04-07T15:00:06","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T21:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/?p=2035"},"modified":"2020-03-13T20:20:58","modified_gmt":"2020-03-14T02:20:58","slug":"movie-the-gentlemen-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benjamin-m-weilert.com\/index.php\/2020\/04\/07\/movie-the-gentlemen-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"MOVIE: The Gentlemen (2020)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TheThe Gentlemen
\n<\/u><\/strong>Year: 2020
\nRating: R
\nLength: 113 minutes \/ 1.88 hours<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve enjoyed a good portion of Guy Ritchie<\/a>\u2019s filmmaking. While many of his more recent movies rely on franchise appeal (Sherlock Holmes<\/em> (2009), The Man from U.N.C.L.E.<\/em> (2015) and Aladdin<\/em><\/a> (2019) are of note), I usually associate his style of filmmaking with the British heist film (like Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels<\/em> (1998) and Snatch<\/em> (2000)). Consequently, I was looking forward to seeing his recent film, The Gentlemen<\/em> (2020), as it seemed to be a return to the kind of filmmaking that attracted me to Guy Ritchie films in the first place.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, it seems Ritchie has been away from his core movies for so long that he\u2019s almost forgotten how to make them. The meta framing with Hugh Grant and Charlie Hunnam was clunky enough that even Hunnam\u2019s character was getting bored with the \u201ctelling\u201d in the exposition provided by Grant\u2019s character. Sure, there were a few neat twists here and there, but it was trying so hard to be a meta-movie like Seven Psychopaths<\/em> (2012) or The Player<\/em> (1992) that it lost its focus. In the end, it spent too much time trying to interweave the narrator\u2019s narrative and the story narrative, and all it ended up with was a jumbled mess of a movie.<\/p>\n

I didn\u2019t feel like the action or cinematography (two elements that defined Ritchie films in the past) was lacking. This was mostly because so much of this movie is told to us via Hugh Grant<\/span>. Perhaps this was also because the meaningful action didn\u2019t even end up being real, but rather the imagined \u201cmovie version\u201d of events that played so counter to the characters and how they would act as to break the suspension of disbelief. I\u2019d forgive doing this once, but it seemed to happen on more than one occasion, resulting in an annoying \u201cjust kidding\u201d wink from the narrator far too often. At the very least, <\/span>The Gentlemen<\/em> does show the difference between boys trying to be tough and men who are actually tough.<\/span><\/p>\n

A Guy Ritchie film that tries, and fails, to reignite the magic from his first movies, I give The Gentlemen<\/em> 2.5 stars out of 5.<\/p>\n

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