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The Gentlemen


My respect for Writer/Director Guy Ritchie's storytelling only grows after enjoying the *!@n&%! hell out of his latest crime thriller THE GENTLEMEN.

Prepare for laughs, profanity and suspense in equal measure in this perfect recipe of killer dialogue, eclectic characters and violence.

Matthew McConaughey is fantastic as American expat Mickey Pearson. Rising from the trailer parks of America to a free ride through an Oxford education, he's found his gift. Weed.

He's built a massive marijuana operation around London, with huge, bunker style grow houses that no one can find and a distribution network to rival FedEx.

Mickey is ready to settle down and sell his operation. With his right hand man Ray (Charlie Hunham) at his side, he begins negotiations with flamboyant Matthew (Jeremy Strong) to buy him out.

But it wont be easy.

Rising Asian gangster Dry Eye (Henry Golding) has an eye on Mickey's enterprise, which is run by his boss, Lord George (Tom Wu).

Journalist Fletcher (Hugh Grant having a blast) is circling as well, sitting down with Ray in the film's brilliantly structured story framing device, to tell him that he's got a lot of dirt on Mickey's operation and every side of what will be anything but a clear exit for Mickey.

Colin Ferrell all but steals the movie as local Boxing trainer The Coach, who is unwittingly dragged deeply into the quickly moving pieces of the mystery.

Michelle Dockery (Downton Abbey) rounds out the cast as Mickey's wife, who runs her own shady enterprise and can more than hold her own against all the gentlemen.

Guy Ritchie brilliantly returns to the roots of his best films (Snatch) while spinning an entirely new story. His stylistic fingerprints are all over the film, from its cool opening title sequence, to slow motion bullets spraying across the screen.

For me though, the reason the film is so good is its also Ritchie's best writing. There are very long dialogue sequences that are Tarantinoesque in scale and structure. McConaughey oozes cool, rolling Ricthie's dialogue out in slow, perfectly paced doses. When his finely wrapped Mickey DOES explode into action, there are pints of pent up anger firing off at once. It's palpable & intense.

With Hugh Grant's recent history winning a massive lawsuit against the London tabloids, he's clearly having a great time here sending them up in all their trashy glory.

The multitude of characters are all well defined, you never know quite where Ritchie's taking them, but there wasn't a moment that I wasn't thrilled to be on the ride.

THE GENTLEMEN are at the top of their game, earning a %$*#@! A. Now light up your White Widow Super Cheese and get ready to hang with these proper handsome and clever &$#*s.

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