The Gentlemen

With The Gentlemen, Guy Ritchie is returning to the genre that he invented in the late 1990s: the brutal British gangster comedy.

Lately, Guy Ritchie has primarily been making his living in Hollywood, but he is now returning to the genre that he invented in the late 1990s: the British gangster comedy. The Gentlemen is a creditable but also tiring effort to relive the success of Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. The plot is excessively convoluted and some of the clever little tricks just seem dumb. But then again, a lot of exciting things happen very quickly, the actors deftly handle the snappy dialogue, and the cameraman excels in the action scenes.