Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre

While this isn't even a patch on Guy Ritchie's first couple of movies with Jason Statham, or his first movie with Hugh Grant, it's a pretty damn solid bit of fun with touches of The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, and at least one ever-so-slight nod to The Princess Bride.

The main cast are excellent - especially Jason Statham, Aubrey Plaza, Josh Hartnett (who it's great to see finally getting some consistent work the last few years), and Hugh Grant - and the henchmen are nice and henchy, giving Statham ample opportunity to flex his fighting muscles AND his banter muscles. The bad guys are kinda meh, though, and could have been at least a little less forgettable. Maybe.

Still, it's a great way to pass the time with a bowl of popcorn and a bag of Malteasers. You could easily do a lot worse.

See you next Tuesday.

Highly disappointed with this movie. I don't know if I had too high of an expectation but the movie was a huge let down.

Acting was mediocre(except for Mr Grant), action was meaningless and dumb most of the time, comedic relief was slow and far between.

The story itself is really what drags this movie down tho, the premise is bad, unimaginative and full of plotholes. The scenario seems rushed, the dialog is abysmal and one liners are abundant and unfunny.

Filmography is ok-ish, there are a couple of good scenes, but most is outlandish but not in a good way.

All in all, this movie(franchise if they get away with it) is sadly just a huge cash grab with no real essence.

If it wasn't a Guy Ritchie nobody would even know it exists.

When a device known as "The Handle" is stolen by Ukrainian mercenaries that kills scientists and security guards and blow-up the place, the member of the British government Knighton (Eddie Marsan) asks the responsible for security Nathan Jasmine (Cary Elwes) to hire and independent team to retrieve the device. Nathan hires the efficient, but expensive mercenary Orson Fortune (Jason Statham), the hacker Sarah Fidel (Aubrey Plaza) and the efficient sniper JJ Davies (Bugzy Malone) to discover what "The Handle" is and retrieve it before the wealthy arms dealer Greg Simmonds (Hugh Grant) sells it to the highest bidder. The team travels to Madrid and meets the courier of "The Handle" in the airport and learn that it is a hard drive. However, they are disturbed by the mercenary Mike (Peter Ferdinando), who is Nathan's competitor that is also interested in "The Handle" and the courier dies, and Mike gets the HD after Sarah copy its data. However, it is cryptographed and the team needs means to get close to Greg to get the password. They blackmail the star Danny Francesco (Josh Hartnett), who had a love affair with his sister-in-law and is Greg's favorite actor, to go to a party in Cannes. Now the action begins to save the world from the powerful technology.

"Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre" (2023) is a funny and entertaining action movie by Guy Ritchie. The excellent cast has names such as Jason Statham, Hugh Grant, Cary Elwes and Josh Hartnett among others, all of them with good performances. Hugh Grants performs a charming arms dealer; Josh Hartnett is in the role of a famous actor of action movies; Cary Elwes in the role of efficient mercenary's coordinator; and Jason Statham in his usual role of kick-ass. The beautiful Aubrey Plaza and Bugzy Malone complete the great lead cast. The last scene with Greg and Danny is hilarious. My vote is seven.

Title (Brazil): "Esquema de Risco: Operação Fortune" ("Risk Scheme: Operation Fortune")

If you want some fun, light-hearted entertainment, and you enjoyed Bullet Train, then Operation Fortune is going to hit the spot.

The action is fast-paced, the characters breezy (Hugh Grant is having an utter blast) and the dialogue fun. I am going to be using "you don't have the bandwidth for that" a lot!

Statham leads a team of operatives to recover The Handle, a mysterious thing that everyone wants. But he is not the only team of agents after it, and the two teams getting in each other's way causes more problems than the international arms dealers that they are pursuing.

Throw in a narcissistic movie star and Cary Elwes (I am *so* glad that he is getting more big movie roles these days), and you have a movie that will have you grinning from start to finish.

As a generic action flick I guess this is sort of ok. For the new Guy Ritchie film its super disappointing. The only stand out aspect is Hugh Grant who is excellent. The rest, from storyline, acting, action sequences, comedy are all incredibly mediocre. Statham does his most basic Statham when he can do much more given the script and direction. Aubrey is ok, i think she was supposed to be funny though and she isnt at all, that isnt her problem because she is generally awesome. The other guy, was just filler, im not sure what he was even there for. The main thing though is the story, its just nothing, it could be a Steven Seagal movie it has no twists turns or surprises.