Guy Ritchie goes all out in this very silly trailer for Operation Fortune: Ruse De Guerre
The action-comedy stars Jason Statham, Aubrey Plaza, Hugh Grant, and Josh Hartnett
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Early 2020 action movie The Gentlemen kind of suggested that Guy Ritchie had embraced self-parody, both because the movie was basically just a run of Guy Ritchie’s favorite Very British action tropes and because it was originally pitched under the Very British title Toff Guys, but if that was self-parody, what the hell is this trailer for Operation Fortune: Ruse De Guerre?
The movie stars Jason Statham as a Jason Statham-type character named Orson Fortune, whose team of super spies or whatever includes Aubrey Plaza, Cary Elwes, Bugzy Malone, and a seemingly endless supply of cool/funny action quips. Together, they have to defeat an arms dealer played by Hugh Grant—who, as hacky social media brands say, understood the assignment.
Then, just to throw another self-aware wink on the pile, Josh Hartnett is there as a Hollywood movie star whose biggest fan happens to be arms dealer Hugh Grant to join Statham’s crew in their plan to… save the world? The plot specifics aren’t totally clear, but it doesn’t seem like the kind of movie that’s overly concerned what’s happening as much as “how can what’s happening be as madcap as possible?” There are silly gunfights, silly car chases, silly banter between the good guys and the bad guy, but without necessarily being too winky or self-aware about how silly it all is.
It just looks like everyone involved is having a nice bit o’ fun, and it is always nice to see Jason Statham playing a funny action guy—even if it’s essentially the same character he played in Spy with Melissa McCarthy. That movie was also fun! Hopefully everything looking fun will translate to a good movie.
Anyway, Guy Ritchie’s Operation Fortune: Ruse De Guerre will be in theaters at some point in 2022 (this trailer just says “coming soon”).
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Guy Ritchie films aren’t always (or even usually) good, but they’re rarely dull and mostly fun.
It’s a shame Man From Uncle flopped. He absolutely nailed that.
The man from Uncle? I hear that guy is a cannibal!
That movie was absolutely great. Nothing momentous, it’s not like I learned something about the world or myself, but the performances were uniformly great, the action was excellent, the writing was quite funny, and it was so stylish my trousers were tailored by the end. I deeply wish it had spawned very good looking sequels.
Reading “it was so stylish my trousers were tailored by the end” was the highlight of my day. Well done.
A sequel was at least planned until Armie Hammer’s predilections got out. Now it will never happen, depressingly.
heard he’s got a thing for his sister in law
Man from UNCLE was indeed great. So, so sad that we didn’t get a sequel or two. It was one of few 60s-set movies that really worked for the period. There was no “hey, look, it’s the 60s” bits — just really good production design, costuming and sets.And yeah, I guess Armie Hammer is an awful person or whatever, but the entire cast was great.
1:59 Emma Stone’s character’s brunette flatmate in La La Land one of Hemingway’s six toed cats who live in Key West Guy Ritchie saw you on the street when he was there you should probably fucking run
The fucking Sandwich Scene is one of the greatest food scenes, and action scenes, and general friendship scenes, ever committed to celluloid.
And where else are you going to get badass Soviet and American spies arguing over women’s fashion?
I love The Man From Uncle, but the one I think is tragically overlooked is RockNRolla – that is probably my favorite Guy Ritchie movie and most people have never even heard of it.
That’s a perfect GR film. Just a blast from start to finish.
My sentiments exactly. Now if someone could please explain Revolver to me.
He made Swept Away and Revolver right in the middle of his marriage to Madonna. When they were in the process of divorcing he did RocknRolla.
Coincidence?
This movie is really gonna hinge on whether Hugh Grant’s clown character can overcome Aubrey Plaza’a deadweight presence.
You take that back.
Deadpan* fixed it! Yeah, Plaza always brings a ton of energy to movies, even if they’re mediocre. She’s gotten to the point where I’ll watch her in anything. “Legion” was the real jumping off point for that.
We just watched the first episode of Legion the other night. I’m totally on board, and Plaza was great as always.
People talk about how “weird” shows like that are, but the funny thing is that when I watch stuff like that, I don’t find it weird at all. Like, I’ve seen plenty of media that does bizarre things with editing, narrative logic, storytelling, visual framing, etc. and I feel like people feel the need to disclaim stuff as “weird” so that other people won’t think they’re weird? I dunno.
Hell yeah, I’m going to have to rewatch Legion now, that seems like a show where you can pick up on new things every time you see it, new interpretations of events.
If only I had picked it back up for that last season.
I always wonder why you’d even bother watching something that wasn’t at least a *little* weird. People that are turned off by “weird” seem very boring. Legion was *fascinating*
FUCKING THANK YOU. Seriously, when I saw she was in it…Wait, wait: lemme guess. She’s plays a bored, disinterested womanchild who roles her eyes a lot, explains a lot of her actions by saying “I don’t know!” and “Whatever!”, invokes a sense of complete helplessness in order to get other’s to solve her problems for her, and her incompetence (played off as “cool” apathy) will drive a significant part of the plot by creating a bunch of fuck-ups for the competent characters to solve.
Is Guy Ritchie compensating for something?
Yes, Madonna.
he’s got really small thumbs
Well, he can’t get millions of people into theaters to look at his dick, so this is what he settled for.
I often wonder why Josh Harnett’s career never really took off like it once seems it would. While a bit limited in range, I always thought he had the chops, looks and charisma to become a consistent A-lister.Anyhow, this looks like fun. The Hugh Grantaissance continues…
I love Hartnett as well! I think actually the Hollywood life got to be a bit much for him so he moved back home and just hung out with his family right when his career seemed like it would take off. He showed some good range in “Penny Dreadful” even if his character got a bit overshadowed, understandably, by Eva Green going balls to the wall.
I loved Penny Dreadful so much! Josh was great as the “WTF is going on here” character, and his chemistry with Eva was off the charts. I do remember him saying he couldn’t take the nonsense of Hollywood and moved back home. He was in Oppenheimer and had a pretty substantial role, so maybe Hollywood is coming around finally? He’s the lead in the new M Night Shyamalan movie.
He’s said he didn’t really like being too famous – he actively turned down playing Superman and left Hollywood at the peak of his career.
Haven’t seen Hartnett for like 15 years, but he looks damn good.
I like him, but Hartnett was always kind of a blank. His range is even narrower than Keanu Reaves. Hollywood tried to make him an A-list romantic leading man for years, but he’s much better when he’s leaning into that wryly detached, slightly inhuman blankness than when he’s trying to be movie-star-charming.
He played several roles in Exterminate All the Brutes recently and I thought they were powerful performances by him. I like him a lot more than a lot of A-Listers, so my hope is that he’s just choosy about his roles – which he should be imo.
Whether brutal or comical, I’ve really enjoyed Ritchie’s recent set of films. This looks just fine.
“Watch out, there’s urine on the floor”
The Gentlemen was terrible but I LOVED Wrath of Man, which also featured Hartnett. Glad to see him getting great work again.Does Gen Z know what a big deal he almost was?
it’s essentially the same character he played in Spy with Melissa McCarthy
He was my favorite part of Spy, and in a movie with Peter Serafinowicz, Allison Janney and Miranda Hart, that’s saying a lot. I’ll see this.
That looks fun. Real shame they couldn’t get Stath to play Bullseye. He would have been perfect.
I am all in on the Cary Elwes renaissance. The man was on the sidelines too long. I want to credit Psych for reminding everyone what a treasure he is.
really loving that ritchie/statham resurgence and ‘orson fortune’ is one of the dumbest names i’ve ever seen. really interesting cast, too.
I appear to be the one person who actually liked The Gentlemen( but to be fair about 50% was down to Colin Farrell) , so hell , I’m in