That rakishness is at its peak here Fletcher is an unrepentant sleazeball, mooching food and drink off of Raymond and flirting with him relentlessly. Grant’s charm, once used to make him a romantic idol, has recently been weaponized in a series of villain roles ( Paddington 2, Florence Foster Jenkins, A Very English Scandal), turning him into the devil you know.
In the clearest evidence that Ritchie’s shtick may be starting to wear thin, Pearson’s gangster antics aren’t as interesting as Fletcher and Raymond dancing around each other. The saga is related to the audience via private eye Fletcher (Hugh Grant), who wants to blackmail Raymond (Charlie Hunnam), Pearson’s right-hand man, into paying him not to publish the rundown on Pearson’s crimes.Ĭolin Farrell and Charlie Hunnam in The Gentlemen. His plan to sell his marijuana empire to fellow American Matthew Berger (Jeremy Strong) is complicated by Dry Eye, who wants it all for himself. Pearson, an American who settled in London after discovering he could make a fortune there dealing weed, wants to retire. And it comes with a racist streak that feels severely antiquated. Every part of The Gentlemen is classic Ritchie: Scoundrels of all sorts cross paths in an ever-widening web of crime, with sequences full of fast dialogue and fast cuts. It isn’t that Ritchie is literally old - he’s only 51 - it’s more that his brand of humor, which might have flown in the late ’90s and early 2000s, has aged in an ugly way. Ritchie is no longer the strongest beast in the forest, and he’s aging out of the game, too.
Maybe that’s true within the world of the movie, but when it comes to Guy Ritchie’s trajectory as a director, it seems that the rules aren’t mutually exclusive. Pearson may be getting older, but he isn’t losing his edge he’s still the king because he’s the best at what he does. Pearson disagrees: The rule of the metaphorical jungle is that the strong will devour the weak.
Early on in The Gentlemen, would-be drug kingpin Dry Eye (Henry Golding) tells weed baron Mickey Pearson (Matthew McConaughey) that the young will replace the old.
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