The Gentlemen (2020): Review by @Kush_Hayes
In a time when most of the cinema loving community is focused on Big Industry Award Night in two weeks, its nice to know that one of the first movies of 2020 will have an audience all to itself. While we are only three weeks into 2020, Guy Ritchies The Gentlemen is currently setting the bar for the best movie of the year. Fresh off his Billion Dollar Disney Blockbuster, The Gentlemen is a return to a Guy Ritchie we first met in the late 20th Century. The Budget is small, the Material is sharper than ever and the cast is breaking down his door to be apart of it. With the exception of Henry Golding and Charlie Hunnam, this movie could have been made after Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels with nearly the same cast and itd still have been a strong sophomore effort. Twenty Two years later and a handful of world wide successful blockbusters and The Gentlemen is as strong a movie as you could hope it might be.
It definitely feels like something indie out of the 90s where principle characters are making industry specific references. Quite frankly I wish this movie had its forced narrative of Hugh Grant walking Charlie Hunnam through the set up removed entirely from the film. Itd be a tighter film by 8 minutes.
The story is great, we meet Matthew McConaughey who is the weed kingpin of the UK and is looking to retire and sell his business to another big fish in the market. Henry Goldings character gets word of this and requests to purchase the business for quite a bit less and thus begins a whole series of problems Charlie Hunnam has to solve and resolve as McConaugheys Number Two. We meet a series of fantastic and amazing characters all with that fast paced cockney dialogue.
We see how favors are made and how favors are paid. We see how someone of a character like Matthew McConaughey could be performing an operation as big as this We learn the rules of a Gentleman Gangster and what the consequences are if any of these rules are broken. Which while never drawn out, feel less complex than those set forth in The Kingsman or the world of John Wick. None of the three are anything similar so it may be an incorrect comparison.
This movie is funny when it wants to be, serious when it has to be, smooth between transitions keeping the viewers from being bored and its a pleasant return to what movies can be with a fantastic cast, a great script and an expert director who has a vision.
Four out of Five Blueberries
Rated R for violence, language throughout, sexual references and drug content
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