2020 · action · comedy · crime
The Gentlemen
Directed by Guy Ritchie1h 53m2020
American expat Mickey Pearson has built a highly profitable marijuana empire in London. When word gets out that he’s looking to cash out of the business forever it triggers plots, schemes, bribery and blackmail in an attempt to steal his domain out from under him.
Our read: The Gentlemen (2020) reads as a warm, breathless, grounded action · comedy · crime entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Warm, breathless, measured action / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- kinetic
- intense
- twisty
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