’The Gentlemen’ is an enjoyable retread of Guy Ritchie’s better works

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Guy Ritchie’s filmography is, to put it mildly, patchy at best. For every ’Snatch’ or ’Sherlock Holmes’, there’s a ’Swept Away’ and ’Operation Fortune: Ruse de...

The Netflix series spins off from the 2019 movie, with a new cast and a new toff leading the way into the criminal underworld.' in there to balance it all out. That being said, some of his most interesting works sometimes end up being misfires.

This particular iteration of 'The Gentlemen' follows the same basic premise of the movie, wherein Theo James plays the son of a English nobleman who has fled the family estate and joined the British Army. He's recalled home to visit his dying father, who as it turns out, had been leasing some of the family estate to a profitable weed-growing business that's controlled by Ray Winstone and fronted by Kaya Scodelario.

The rest of the cast is filled out with the likes of Ray Winstone playing Kaya Scoldelario's on-screen mobster father in a role he could probably play in his sleep. Vinnie Jones turns up as the hard-as-nails groundskeeper with a heart of gold, while Giancarlo Esposito plays an American who's eager to snap up said estate from Theo James just as soon as possibly can for unknown but likely underhanded reasons.

While Ritchie is involved in terms of directing a few episodes and producing and creating, the rest of the series is left to directors such as Eran Creevy and writers like 'Love/Hate' impresario Stuart Carolan and the series does have it moments where they're able to shine and bring their own unique flavour to the screen in a way that would otherwise be neglected.

There's the uncomfortable comfortableness with the class system, the lack of meaningfully developed characters, the constant whizz-bang-pop editing, and not to mention the fact that much of the twists and turns of the overall series are lifted straight from his other movies.

 

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