Guy Ritchie abandons all of his favorite tricks in this deadly serious trailer for The Covenant
"What's all this then?" you might say, but nobody in the movie will say it
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Guy Ritchie has a very particular sense of style he likes to bring to his films, which are generally full of quippy, bombastic action that typically centers on very Bri’ish gangsters or cops or detectives shooting people and blowing stuff up. That was sort of the entire appeal of his 2019 film The Gentlemen, which involved a sprawling cast of criminals quipping at each other and killing each other. He put an even finer point on it with Operation Fortune: Ruse De Guerre, a more heavily comedic action film that looks like it pushes past self-parody and dives right into outright self-mockery (the movie’s release was quietly delayed last year, presumably because the bad guys are Ukrainian gangsters).
But with this trailer for Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant (that is the official title), we don’t know what to think. If his name weren’t literally in the title, we would have had no way of guessing that it was made by the guy whose big contribution to the Sherlock Holmes canon was “what if he’s so smart that he can also fight really good?” For one thing, it stars Jake Gyllenhaal, who is not Cockney at all. For another thing, it takes place primarily in Afghanistan, a place that is not London. Finally, there are no quips whatsoever in this trailer. The trailer is so serious that it would be deeply inappropriate if anyone made any quips!
Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant stars Gyllenhaal as a soldier whose life is saved by an interpreter (Dar Salim) in Afghanistan, whose decision to heroically rescue Gyllenhaal put a target on his back. Once he’s safe at home, Gyllenhaal realizes that saving his life put the interpreter’s own life at risk, so he goes back to Afghanistan to try and rescue him. It doesn’t look fun, or cool, or British, but it does have Guy Ritchie’s name in the title.
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What happened to Operation Fortune, anyway? I see it started releasing internationally this year but I can’t find a US release and I really wanted to watch it.
In US theaters March 3 and on Prime about a month later
Guy Ritchie’s Alien: Covenant I’m guessing Clint Eastwood pulled out half-way through production, and Ritchie only agreed to finish it if his name was added to the title.
This is Guy Ritchie in the same mode he was in when he made Wrath Of Man, which is it’s going to be brutal, dark, almost bordering on grimdark exploration of what the depths of grief and loss can do to the human soul. Wrath of Man was great, so I’m hoping this is too.
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9th movie he’s made instead of RockNRolla 2also like the 5th movie he’s put out in 4 years, goddamn dude
The real question is whether it has that wonderful 2:3:5 aspect ratio.
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This is Guy Ritchie in the same mode he was in when he made Wrath Of
Man, which is it’s going to be brutal, dark, almost bordering on
grimdark exploration of what the depths of grief and loss can do to the
human soul. Wrath of Man was great, so I’m hoping this is too.
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