Director Guy Ritchie
Starring Matthew McConaughey, Charlie Hunnam, Michelle Dockery
Rated MA
Score 5/6

American expat Mickey Pearson who built a highly profitable marijuana empire in London. When word gets out that he’s looking to cash out of the business forever it triggers plots, schemes, bribery and blackmail in an attempt to steal his domain out from under him.

Okay, if memory serves the last movie that I watched that Guy Ritchie directed, King Arthur wasn’t very well received at the box office, so its good to see that Ritchie has gone back to a genre that he knows so well. Crime. There is a lot to love about this movie, though I got the impression that with some of Ritchie’s specific references about filmmaking seemed to be something that you would expect from somebody like Quentin Tarantino.
There is a good combination of actors who I was familiar with and those who I had never seen in a movie before. Both Henry Golding and Michelle Dockery had a great onscreen presence. I just loved Hugh Grant’s performance as the sleazy Fletcher, this character could not be further from the floppy-haired romantic leads Grant is so well known for if he tried. It should be noted that pictures of Hugh Grant featured heavily in the top-ten of a quick google image search of the term ‘floppy-haired English actor’.
It really didn’t surprise me to see that Charlie Hunnam was cast in this, though it has been a little while since I have last seen Collin Farrell in a movie (though maybe not as long as I first thought it was). Matthew McConaughey was an interesting yet odd casting choice though he carried himself very well through the movie and after seeing his performance I think I might have to check out more of Jeremy Strong’s work.