The Gentlemen

Last night I finally had the chance to see The Gentlemen and I had an absolute blast watching this movie!  American ex-patriot Mickey Pearson (Matthew McConaughey) has amassed a multi-million dollar business growing marijuana on the estates of cash poor aristocrats in England but now wants to retire with his wife Rosalind (Michelle Dockery).  He decides to sell the business to Matthew Berger (Jeremy Strong), a fellow American, for $400 million.  However, Dry Eye (Henry Golding), the underboss for a Chinese gangster, offers to buy it instead and doesn't take kindly to being refused, a group of amateur MMA fighters trained by the Coach (Colin Farrell) raid one of his farms and film the escapade, some of his henchmen accidentally kill the son of Russian gangsters while doing a favor for one of the aristocrats, and a newspaper editor (Eddie Marson) who has been snubbed by Mickey hires a private investigator named Fletcher (Hugh Grant) to get the dirt on him and he, in turn, attempts to blackmail his right hand man Raymond (Charlie Hunnam).  Chaos ensues as Mickey tries to take back control of his empire.  This movie is wildly entertaining because Guy Ritchie is back to doing what Guy Ritchie does best.  He has created a group of eccentric characters, assembled an all-star ensemble cast who look like they are having the time of their lives, especially Grant (this is a side of him that I have never seen before and he is hilarious), and devised a plot with enough twists and turns to keep audiences guessing until the final scene.  Ritchie is known for his fast cuts and stylized action sequences and there are some great ones here!  I especially loved the raid on one of Mickey's farms and the scene where a group of henchmen must track down all of the phones used to film the incident with the Russian boy.  I laughed out loud through the whole movie and, if you like Ritchie's previous gangster movies, I highly recommend this!