Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre
Five Eyes, the international intelligence agency, recruits MI6 agent Orson Fortune to prevent the sale of a deadly new weapons technology that threatens to disrupt the world order.
- Released:
- Runtime: 114 minutes
- Genre: Action, Comedy, Thrillers
- Stars: Jason Statham, Aubrey Plaza, Hugh Grant, Cary Elwes, Bugzy Malone, Max Beesley, Eddie Marsan, Eugenia Kuzmina, Peter Ferdinando, Lourdes Faberes, Sam Douglas, Oliver Maltman, Sinan Yildiz, Vincent Wang, Kaan Urgancıoğlu
- Director: Guy Ritchie
Comments
- paul-verkruissen - 12 January 2023
You'll wish it was better
Not a typical Guy movie. Spies instead of gangsters. It has a lot of promise, and the few strong parts of the story and characters are let down by the remainder.
Aubrey Plaza is the stand out, with High Grant presenting another odd accent but it works. Otherwise Jason Statham is 100% his usual action hero but this type of movie needed him to be a little something more. I feel Josh Harnett was woefully miscast as the movie star.
Still enjoyable and enough to like throughout, but I believe like me you'll leave wishing it mark the mark better than it did.
Fees like Guy set this up to be a franchise, so perhaps that drive sucked a little life out of the script and character development. - gavinp9 - 8 January 2023
Rewatchable popcorn spy fun
'Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre' is the 5th time director Guy Ritchie has used Jason Statham in one of his films - and if it ain't broke, don't fix it! This is a pretty straight-forward spy-action-adventure, with a fair bit of comedy thrown in - closer to 'The Man From U. N. C. L. E.' than 'Wrath of Man'. I'd say I liked it better than 'The Gentlemen', but not as much as 'Snatch'. There is only minor introductions for Orson Fortune (Statham), Sarah (Plaza) and JJ (Malone) as the spy team working for Nathan (Elwes), before we're off and running.
Not sure why the "Ruse de Guerre" suffix was needed, but it translates as a cunning war trick. I assume it also helps if there are to be sequels. The trick is that the team use actor Danny Francesco (Hartnett) as bait for billionaire arms-dealer Greg Simmonds (Grant), to track a stolen weapon. Most of the plot is quite formulaic, but Statham & Ritchie know how to stage action scenes and there's plenty of exciting moments.
Hartnett plays spoiled actor well; Plaza has plenty of fun; Malone, Elwes and Statham are all solid; with Hugh Grant relishing the role, having even more fun than he did in 'The Gentlemen'. Not too long, satisfying ending, noting too new, but a nice mix of comedy and action with a good cast.
