Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre

A subversive version of Mission Impossible, where they steal a ChatGPT that can launch nukes and point fingers at the Soviets. Unfortunately, it's unexpectedly bland, almost soporific at times without the crazy stunts of Mad Tom. On top of that, some of the villains are Ukrainian, and that’s just not trendy today. The acting is great, Statham is excellent again, only Cary Elwes didn't suit me here. The script, despite some stylish dialogue (or Grant's exquisite final monologue), lacks drive, is muddled and falls short of the typical Ritchie standard. I felt like he got bored during the shooting and tried to finish it quickly so he could get on with The Covenant. (05/12/2023)

Orson Fortune and his team must prevent the sale of a weapon that could threaten the entire world. To do so, they must get close to a dangerous adversary, and they're going to use a Hollywood superstar to do it. Guy Ritchie delivers an entertaining action-spy comedy that's driven forward by a particularly likeable cast. Unfortunately, they're a bit undermined by a muddled script, which often makes the story pause unnecessarily and deal with irrelevancies, only to have to unnecessarily plunge forward a few moments later. It's not boring, but one expects a bit more from Ritchie and Statham. (01/12/2023)

Guy Ritchie's Mission: Impossible wannabe. And not bad at all. It would rather rank among the more accomplished in the series (solid plotting, the action is both rich and old-fashioned), though it's the least inventive because it sticks too closely to the genre rules. (08/18/2024)

After the phenomenal The Gentlemen, my expectations for Operation Fortune may have been too high, but I didn't leave the cinema disappointed. Guy Ritchie's latest is a brisk one-watch action flick with some issues when it comes to the script and (black) humour, but it flows nicely in the cinema, and thanks to the regularly dosed action it doesn't get boring. It was good to see Josh Hartnett in action after quite a long time, but the main driving forces are the cruel Jason Statham and the equally sharp Hugh Grant, for whom such roles just tailor-made. In the end, the film neither impresses nor surprises, but it entertains and thrills, and that's what counts. A weaker four stars! (01/25/2023)

Guy Ritchie is a terribly ambivalent and strange director. His name has been resonating in the film world for the last year for the absolute top of the action genre, Wrath of Man, but now he throws us such a dreadfully average thing as Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre. And when I say average, I mean literally average in every way. The acting is terribly bland, none of the three stars, Jason Statham, Hugh Grant, and Aubrey Plaza, have iconic roles, they are typical B-movie characters with no interesting traits, and there's only two action sequences towards the end, and they also suck. There's no action, above average fights, shootouts or hand-to-hand combat, and then the story is a despicable template full of bland clichés. And the humour? Zero! The whole film is completely devoid of ideas, effort and any kind of fun. In fact, I have to say that for the first time in a long time, I looked at my watch in the cinema and if I had watched the film at home, I probably wouldn't have finished it. Extremely mediocre crap that I won't remember a week later. And it pisses me all the more because this was spawned by a guy like Ritchie, everyone will compare it to Wrath of Man, and that's the stumbling block that drives the film's rating into drastic below-average territory. All I ask after watching it is WHY. (01/05/2023)