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Guy Ritchie's ‘The Gentlemen' Is Stale Pint Of Ale
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|January 31, 2020
Guy Ritchie’s honor-among-thieves meta-caper “The Gentlemen,” with Matthew McConaughey, has all the tailored tweed suits and smoky atmosphere of a handsome scotch commercial. “The Gentlemen” might not be an ad, but Ritchie’s film is most assuredly selling something.
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It’s selling a vision in which “real men” handle their business with a touch of class. There are those who get it (handsome, heterosexual white men) and those who don’t (overambitious minorities, predatory gay men). In “The Gentlemen,” any criminal aspirant lacking the proper panache is set straight, until the underworld empire of crime boss Mickey Pearson (McConaughey) has been sufficiently protected.
“If you wish to be the king of the jungle, it’s not enough to act like the king. You must be the king,” McConaughey’s gangster intones in the film’s opening. It’s amusing that would fit right into one of McConaughey’s Lincoln adverts but it reflects the overarching, chest-thumping ethos of “The Gentlemen,” a well-heeled, star-packed crime thriller that preaches retrograde masculinity with the mumbo jumbo to go with it.
This story is from the January 31, 2020 edition of AppleMagazine.
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