Director Guy Ritchie
Stars Jason Statham, Aubrey Plaza & Cary Elwes
Rated M
Score 4/6

Special agent Orson Fortune and his team of operatives recruit one of Hollywood’s biggest movie stars to help them on an undercover mission when the sale of a deadly new weapons technology threatens to disrupt the world order.

It’s been a while since I’ve last been to the cinema and possibly even longer since I’ve last watched a movie directed by Guy Ritchie. After watching Operation Fortune I feel inspired to rewatch The Man from U.N.C.L.E. For those of you who might be wondering, merriam-webster.com defines ruse de guerre as war stratagem. Wikipedia says that the French ruse de guerre, sometimes literally translated as ruse of war.
This is exactly the sort of thing that you’d expect from Jason Statham, though I suppose Orson Fortune has a couple more personality quirks then you’d expect from some of his other characters. Though the quirks certainly are a convenient excuse to give Fortune a ‘Bondesque’ lifestyle. With the next James Bond movie a couple years out part of me can’t help but wonder if a new fictional spy will be THE next franchise.
I loved the opening sequence with the sounds of the footsteps of Cary Elwes’ as Nathan Jasmine walking  in a hallway interspersed with footage of a heist. I loved how Elwes and Statham played off of each other. I was a little surprised to see Josh Hartnett (I thought it had been more than a five years since I last saw him in a movie but I forgot He was in The Gentleman) and I loved Hugh Grant’s performance as Greg Simmonds, i found that i couldn’t help but compare his performance as Simmonds with his performance in The Gentleman. Simmonds is the cooler of the two characters. Even though I’m sure I haven’t seen much of her work, I’m starting to appreciate Aubrey Plaza’s work though I would have liked to have seen a tiny bit of subtlety with a couple of her jokes. It will be interesting to see if Bugzy Malone gets any more acting roles considering that this was his second feature film.