Director Guy Ritchie returns to the form he exhibited in his first films, Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch (with a hilariously unintelligible Brad Pitt). That's a good thing. Like those movies, The Gentlemen mixes violence, comedy, and an incredibly twisted plot where you can't tell who is running what scam on who until the end. And it is incredibly offensive by Woke standards, thanks goodness.
The Gentlemen takes awhile to get going, at least by Ritchie standards, but it's worth waiting for it to get rolling. In the lead roles Matthew McConaughey and Charlie Hunnam are quite good but supporting actors Colin Farrell and an amazingly smarmy Hugh Grant steal the show. And the elegant Michelle Dockery from Downton Abbey is a hoot as McConaughey's elegant but steely tough wife. To say more would be to give too much away.
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