A slick, fast-talking crime caper with Guy Ritchie’s trademark swagger, sharp ensemble banter, and a knowingly ridiculous sense of escalation. It’s especially fun if you like stylish criminal underworld stories that lean into personality, plotting, and performance as much as action.
The Gentlemen
Where to watch: Buy
Movie · Action · Comedy
Wed · 1h 53m
Director: Guy Ritchie
Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Charlie Hunnam, Michelle Dockery
Overview
American expat Mickey Pearson has 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.
Director
Guy Ritchie
Cast
Matthew McConaughey, Charlie Hunnam, Michelle Dockery
Curator Review
Verdict
A slick, fast-talking crime caper with Guy Ritchie’s trademark swagger, sharp ensemble banter, and a knowingly ridiculous sense of escalation. It’s especially fun if you like stylish criminal underworld stories that lean into personality, plotting, and performance as much as action.
Best for
fans of glossy crime comedies
viewers who enjoy ensemble banter and double-crosses
people who like stylish, kinetic filmmaking
audiences open to broad, self-aware masculinity and tabloid energy
Skip if
you want grounded realism
you dislike macho posturing and snappy, hyper-stylized dialogue
you’re sensitive to casual misogyny or ugly criminal-world behavior
you prefer character depth over plot machinery and attitude
Overview
The Gentlemen is a polished return to form for Guy Ritchie, built around a dense web of hustles, betrayals, and verbal sparring. It moves like a con game: everyone is performing, everyone has leverage, and the movie enjoys the pleasure of watching its own machinery click into place.
Worth noting
The cast is a big part of the appeal. Matthew McConaughey gives the film a relaxed center, Charlie Hunnam plays the loyal fixer with dry understatement, and Hugh Grant steals scenes with a sly, slippery energy that turns the whole thing into a game of shifting alliances. The movie is at its best when it lets those personalities collide.
Bottom line
That said, it’s also very much a Guy Ritchie movie in the familiar sense: flashy, self-satisfied, and sometimes more interested in style than emotional consequence. If you’re in the mood for a glossy criminal farce with swagger to spare, it delivers; if you want something more humane or less bro-y, the film’s rough edges will stand out.
Top Letterboxd reviews
demi adejuyigbe · 8514 likes
GUY RITCHIE: hey man, i made that pizza you wanted ME: ah righteous, thank y– GUY: a bup bup bup– before you eat it, i should apologize ME: what? why, your pizzas are always pretty good GUY: yeah well i was worried the recipe was getting a little stale ME: yeah GUY: so i tried to mix it up a bunch ME: yeah GUY: and i got a liiiiittle self-indulgent ME: yeah GUY: then i threw in a little playful
Jim Caddick (4.5★) · 6202 likes
Hugh Grant was in Paddington 2 and now he says ‘cunt’ 200 times
karen h. · 4703 likes
hugh grant and charlie hunnam should have kissed
🌻 lindsay 🌻 (1★) · 2903 likes
you’re really only going to have one woman in your movie and her only purpose is to be threatened with sexual assault so that the main male character can angst over that? and we never see her deal with what happened because she is not a person to this movie, she is a tool that can be used against mickey. we see HIM deal with her trauma but we never see her again because she doesn’t matter to this story and i am so fucking sick of seeing this happen in movies constantly. I honestly didn’t enjoy watching any of this it made me really angry.
maria (3.5★) · 2316 likes
guy ritchie jerking off and smelling his cum for almost two hours. loved it!
Themes
organized crime, drug trafficking, blackmail, double-crosses, male ego, loyalty and betrayal, tabloid-style intrigue, wealth and power
Topics
crime comedy, ensemble cast, British underworld, stylized direction, fast dialogue, neo-noir, antihero, caper, swagger, dark humor