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- 2023
- R
- Lionsgate Films
- 1 h 54 m
- 2023
- R
- Lionsgate Films
- 1 h 54 m
Summary Super spy Orson Fortune (Jason Statham) must track down and stop the sale of a deadly new weapons technology wielded by billionaire arms broker Greg Simmonds (Hugh Grant). Reluctantly teamed with some of the world’s best operatives (Aubrey Plaza, Cary Elwes, Bugzy Malone), Fortune and his crew recruit Hollywood’s biggest movie star Danny...
Written By: Marn Davies
- 2023
- R
- Lionsgate Films
- 1 h 54 m
- 2023
- R
- Lionsgate Films
- 1 h 54 m
Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre
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6.3
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Summary Super spy Orson Fortune (Jason Statham) must track down and stop the sale of a deadly new weapons technology wielded by billionaire arms broker Greg Simmonds (Hugh Grant). Reluctantly teamed with some of the world’s best operatives (Aubrey Plaza, Cary Elwes, Bugzy Malone), Fortune and his crew recruit Hollywood’s biggest movie star Danny...
Written By: Marn Davies
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 35 Critic Reviews
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23% Positive
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66% Mixed
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23 Reviews
11% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 35 Critic Reviews
51
23% Positive
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
66% Mixed
23 Reviews
23 Reviews
11% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
Ritchie, working from a script he cowrote with Ivan Atkinson and Marn Davies, has taken all of this and transformed it into a movie that’s so clever and airy yet grounded, so sparkling with devil-may-care bravado, so poised right where you want it to be — a step ahead of the audience but also leading us right along — that it gives off the charge of a great screwball comedy.
For the most part, Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre is a fun time at the movies. There’s laughter, action, and movie stars playing to their strengths. It’s exactly what audiences expect to see from Ritchie and that’s its main selling point. If only the second hour was tighter, maintaining the film’s fast rhythm.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 81 User Ratings
6.3
47% Positive
38 Ratings
38 Ratings
47% Mixed
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38 Ratings
6% Negative
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5 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 81 User Ratings
6.3
47% Positive
38 Ratings
38 Ratings
47% Mixed
38 Ratings
38 Ratings
6% Negative
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]
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It’s slick in one moment and a little too scrappy the next but Ritchie’s puppyish insistence that you have as much as fun as his stars is hard to resist. The film’s bizarrely reticent rollout might have already killed any chance of further operations but there have been far, far worse franchise-starters in recent years.
Lazily bopping around to exotic locales in France, Turkey and Qatar, it’s a generic collage of mega-yachts, luxe hotels, fancy parties, disguised identities and tame fights that add up to a big nothing.
The action and the scenes with Grant's sleazeball arms dealer are the only situations where "Operation Fortune" feels genuinely alive and not like a collection of tired jokes and so-so set pieces.
There are tiny glimpses of someone who has genuine chops behind the camera, almost but not quite enough to make you think that, given more time and focus, he could have made something out of these spare parts. Or maybe, just maybe, this whole botched Operation is designed to make his older, possibly lesser work look better.
Promising but failing to deliver the colorful characters and winding, breakneck plot of a caper, Operation Fortune may itself be a ruse, but it’s not a convincing one.
Hilarious, a lot of funny moments and starting with a classic Guy Ritchie fast paced dialogue of an opening
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(Mauro Lanari)
Did Ritchie also bend to the logic of marketing by trying to launch his own cinematic universe? If these are the reviews and box office receipts, a possible sequel will be unlikely. I was negatively struck by the denial of his stylistic code: the volcanic editing. And even his peculiar funny dialogues and situations slowly fade away. Not one of his best films, but not one of the worst either.
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Review: Entertainment: 3.5/5
Acting: 3/5
Story: 2/5 Score/Screenplay/Sound/Stunts: 3.5/5
Length: 4/5
Is it worth watching a second time: No
Watch it Alone or In a Group Setting: Both work fine
Keywords: Guns, Stunts, Action, Billionaire, Mafia, Hitman
P.S. Good oneliners, mixed with some action
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Talented cast but Guy Ritchie, as always, is kind of hit-and-miss. This movie is definitely a miss. The story starts off interestingly enough but it loses steam halfway through. The majority of this movie is about characters having never-ending conversations that are written as if they are quick-witted and funny but they aren't. It runs a good 20 minutes too long and it would have been much more tolerable if it were shorter.
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Não sei o que acontece com Hollywood para criar coisas bizarras como essa. Ainda que o filme abrace o tom satírico e não se leve tão a sério, é tudo tão forçado que passa do humor para a vergonha alheia em muitas cenas, sem contar que a ação está fraca para sustentar a trama, diferente da franquia "velozes e furiosos" que também peca pela verossimilhança mas ao menos diverte.
Temos aqui o caso de uma maleta roubada que esconde um objeto deveras valioso, capaz de movimentar duas equipes para resgatá-lo, uma delas de Orson Fortune. Ao menos os personagens quase sempre são carismáticos.
No meio de uma transação comercial bilionária, destacando a importância do objeto, o roteiro vai nos conduzindo a situações absurdas, vai e vem entre várias cidades, tudo para resgatar o tal objeto.
O grande problema aqui nem é tanto a rápida construção dos personagens, com aquela típica edição acelerada. O maior problema mesmo é que a ação não funciona, e a maioria das piadas (?) estão fora do tom. Até curto a sensação autoindulgente de não se levar tão a sério, embora aqui realmente esteja indefensável qualquer tentativa de se tornar uma experiência satisfatória.
É um filme tão aborrecida que lá pelas tantas nem nos importamos mais com os absurdos, e queremos que todo aquele suplício termine de vez, já que basicamente o filme se perde em reviravoltas e diálogos ruins. Tentei me lembrar de alguma cena de ação marcante e não tive êxito. Assim, é um filme vazio, que precisa de muita suspensão da realidade e não entrega o básico. Desnecessário.
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