The Gentlemen [Includes Digital Copy] [Blu-ray/DVD]

Director: Guy Ritchie Guy Ritchie

Overview

Writer-director Guy Ritchie's crime drama stars Matthew McConaughey, Charlie Hunnam, Henry Golding, Michelle Dockery, Hugh Grant, and Jeremy Strong. An American expat (McConaughey) catalyzes a series of Machiavellian maneuvers by various players with a stake in London's underworld when he decides to sell his highly lucrative drug business (which involves cannabis farms hidden within the estates of aristocratic landlords).

Product Details

Release Date:	04/21/2020
UPC:	0191329124789
Original Release:	2020
Rating:	R
Source:	Universal Studios
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:54:00

Special Features

Best Gentlemanly Quips; Glossary of Cannabis; Behind the scenes of The Gentlemen; Photo Gallery

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Matthew McConaughey	Mickey Pearson
Charlie Hunnam	Raymond
Henry Golding	Dry Eye
Colin Farrell	Coach
Hugh Grant	Fletcher
Michelle Dockery	Rosalind Pearson
Jeremy Strong	Cannabis Kingpin Mathew
Lyne Renee	Jackie
Chidi Ajufo	Bunny
Simon Barker	Frazier
Simon R. Barker	Frazier
Jason Wong	Phuc
John Dagleish	Hammy
Jordan Long	Barman
Lily Frazer	Lisa the Mechanic
Gershwyn Eustache	Roger
Samuel West	Lord Pressfield
Geraldine Somerville	Lady Pressfield
Eliot Sumner	Laura Pressfield
Christopher Evangelou	Primetime
James Warren	Jim
Sean Sagar	Mal
Bugzy Malone	Ernie
Tom Rhys Harries	Power Noel
Danny Griffin	Aslan
Eugenia Kuzmina	Misha
Bruce Chong	Npuc
Ashley McGuire	Maureen
Shanu Hazzan	Trigger
Jack Jones	Nick
Ryan Dean	Murka
Guy List	Security Guard Guy
Marvin Campbell	Securiy Guard Marv
Will Mackay	Securty Guard Frank
Matt Sherren	Security Guard John
Jason Hunjan	Security Guard Tezza
Maurice Lee	Security Guard Mo
Russell Balogh	Russ
Jack O'Connor	Youth 1
McKell David	Youth 2
Isaiah Zev	Youth 3
David Garrick	Dave
Tom Lambert	Young Mickey
Mark Rathbone	Aslan's Father
Timothy Siddall	Mike
Dominic Gibbs	Chasa
Brittany Ashworth	Ruby
Christopher Benstead	Composer
Serhat Metin	Actor
Rubens Saboia	Hot Mechanic

Technical Credits

Guy Ritchie

Ivan Atkinson

Marn Davies

Guy Ritchie	Director,Producer,Screenwriter
Ivan Atkinson	Producer,Screenwriter
Bill Block	Producer
Marn Davies	Screenwriter
Alan J. Wands	Executive Producer,Producer
Robert Simonds	Executive Producer,Producer
Luke Gentry	Sound/Sound Designer
Alex Landrum Jr.	Special Effects
Lucinda Syson	Casting
Tony Davis	Production Manager
Paul Munro	Sound Mixer
Jason Hunjan	Stunts
Andrew Golov	Executive Producer,Producer
Matthew Anderson	Executive Producer,Producer
Adam Fogelson	Executive Producer,Producer
Bob Osher	Executive Producer,Producer
Jason Curle	Stunts
Ben Dimmock	Stunts
Levan Doran	Stunts
Andy Godbold	Stunts
Jean-Paul Ly	Stunts
Rashid Phoenix	Stunts
Marvin Campbell	Stunts
Matt Sherren	Stunts

Editorial Reviews

Director Guy Ritchie has had some hit films and some misfires but with The Gentlemen, he shoots straight down the middle. This gangster caper, like many of his films, is a fast-talking, wicked romp that wants a million things at once. Fascinating and slightly confusing is the construction of this story inside a story. Shifty tabloid journalist Fletcher (Hugh Grant) narrates a "script" about the misdeeds of violent U.K. businessmen and drug dealers to their close associate Ray (Charlie Hunnam), in order to extort $20 million from them. Be prepared to barely grasp the exposition in the beginning, as Ritchie exploits his signature whip-fast dialogue with quick cutting to nuclear levels. But as the story stretches its legs, it becomes clearer. The Russian doll story construct coupled with the fast dialogue and editing does a tremendous job of concealing who is the hero and who is the villain. The shocking first sequence with Mickey (Matthew McConaughey) appears to set him up as the worst of the worst. Indeed, by his own words, he's the king of the jungle. Yet he wants to sell his multimillion-dollar, underground weed scheme to the highest bidder so he can settle down with his wife Ros (Michelle Dockery). As Fletcher tells his "script" to Ray and the audience, it quickly becomes clear that he's an unreliable storyteller. Many times, a sequence of Mickey's extreme violence will play out only for a new sequence to take its place whenever Fletcher is called out on its inauthenticity. In this way, the film is thumbing its nose at its own medium. The untrustworthiness stems from the hand that holds the pen or the camera, not the characters per se. It's a cheeky, fun meta-commentary that takes place in a greater gangster scheme. The film also goes to amusing lengths to poke fun at British culture in general. The first clue is in making two of Britain's most well-known "posh" actors - Grant and Dockery - adopt the cruder Cockney accent and demeanor for laughs. Even more entertaining is Coach (Colin Farrell) and his gym-rat gang of lads all wearing variations of the same plaid tracksuit and trainers. It's comedy of manners through voice and style that is very tricky to accomplish, but Ritchie neatly does. The hardest thing to swallow is the casual use of racial epithets and rape for laughs or drama in the story, with references anyone can see as problematic. The film clumsily grapples at pointing out the irony of racial tropes and racism at large. For example, the unreliable storyteller must retell the truth about Dry-Eye (Henry Golding), given he's not a kung-fu trope as first shown, but rather a first-generation Chinese Brit and son of a drug kingpin. There's another scene between Coach and one of his lads in which Coach explains a racial insult is not racist but more of a term of endearment. This, followed by the kid asking if Coach is a gypsy with tea leaves and a crystal ball, points to the complexity of "joking" at another race's expense. The Ros scene towards the end, and the consequences for both Dry-Eye and the Jewish businessman Matthew (Jeremy Strong), are unsavory at best, and they instead stigmatize the idea of a man of color getting involved with a white woman. The Gentlemen is still a stunning vehicle for Hugh Grant's acting. He has always had a hopeless, dopey charm in his persona. But here, Grant takes the whimsy villainy that worked so well in Paddington 2 and elevates it to a more adult and brazen level. He's telling the story, and telling it with such smarmy bravado, that one can't help but fall into it. All in all, The Gentlemen is a certified-Ritchie film. There's the laugh-out-loud humor and stellar soundtrack like in The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Then there's the fast-paced editing and dialogue that shifts the ground from under you like in King Arthur. It's an ambitious and risky mix, but with all the confidence in the world.