Aubrey Plaza's deadpan delivery is not enough to save this snarky, star-studded 'Mission: Impossible' riff featuring Ritchie's repertory of rogues, Jason Statham, Hugh Grant and Josh Hartnett.
“Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre” clocks in at nearly two hours, but feels cut to ribbons. It doesn’t even have an opening sequence, wherein the bad guys steal the thingamajig that will trigger the crack team to go after them. Instead, that’s relegated to a nearly nonsensical silent montage that plays out over Elwes’ Nathan Jasmine meeting with Eddie Marsan’s Knighton to assemble a crew of specialists led by quirky oenophile Orson Fortune who will be deployed to get the thingamajig back.
It’s not funny enough to pull off parody, but there’s a reason why “OF: RDG” has been sliced and diced within an inch of its life. Shot in 2021, the film apparently featured a crew of Ukrainian gangsters as the henchmen of Hugh Grant’s billionaire arms dealer antagonist, Greg Simmonds .
Hence over-relying on Plaza intoning jargon into Statham’s ear, and way too much of Grant doing his best Michael Caine. Hartnett plays a ditzy Hollywood actor named Danny Francesco whom they’re using as bait to get close to Simmonds so that they can find out what the thingamajig is and whom he’s selling it to and for what. They call the thingamajig “The Handle,” and I swear Guy Ritchie is trolling me at this point.Maybe he is.
“OF: RDG” is classic recent Ritchie: star-studded, snarky, and ultimately grating, lousy with weird glasses and bad accents. This thing is so slight, a Xerox of a Xerox of a Xerox of a “Mission: Impossible” that it’s barely a movie. Shot like a commercial — brightly lit, colorful, shallowly staged, and snappily edited — you half expect Cary Elwes to turn to camera and start talking about credit card rewards. As to the plot, it is wildly complicated and yet very basic special ops spy stuff.
Guy Ritchie might be having a lark, but that doesn’t mean the audience will be. Don’t waste any time longer than reading the title on this one.
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