The Gentlemen Review

Guy Ritchie must have felt he needed an escape coming off Aladdin with Disney because this is as far away from that kind of movie as you can get. Welcome to the United Kingdom where there are many different accents, lots of people cursing and lots of c*!#s. Yes if that word offends you then definitely don’t even think of seeing The Gentlemen. I will be wholly honest with you that I spent a good majority of this film lost as to what was happening, I was entertained, I wasn’t bored and I laughed quite a bit. It was not towards the end that I was able to start putting two and two together. I’ll try my best to give you a brief idea of what you will be getting into if you chose to see this one. The first thing is the acting is all great everyone is having a grand old time in this, the first person you should know about is Matthew McConaughey, he owns and operates a fair amount of marijuana farms and has decided he’s ready to exit the business and looking to sell to Jeremy strong. Next up are a Charlie Hunnam and Hugh Grant, Hunnam works for McConaughey, Grant is a journalist who has been following the events of everything that has happened and is trying to extort money out of Hunnam. Then you have Henry Golding and Colin Farrell who are mob like characters doing dirty deeds for others. This is a film that enjoys double backing in on itself and jumping around from this character to that character while audience members are trying to create a string chart of events in their heads.  Not having seen many of Guy Ritchie’s other films, I cannot attest to how similar it is with those, from those that I have read or heard reviews from most of them say if you know Snatch you know what your getting into with this one. I will say though the performances from the cast are entertaining which kept me watching, I may not have always known what exactly was happening though I was entertained by what I was seeing. Definitely one that I want to circle back for a second watch if the time presents itself, feels like one that will benefit from a second viewing where knowing what’s going to happen, connecting the pieces of the puzzle together while watching and get more out of it. B.