Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre is an action thriller movie directed by Guy Ritchie, starring Jason Statham, Aubrey Plaza and Hugh Grant.
Guy Ritchie and Jason Statham became famous worldwide with a movie (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels) and years later they are back with another story. This time around, it’s not at all like the one about half-baked gangsters as in the first, but it does have the same spirit that brought them success: quality action cinema, creating excellently directed pure entertainment, with pace, irony and an elaborate sense of rhythm and editing.
An action movie of quality.
Movie Review
A film with quality, it’s nostalgic, it has an unbalanced sense of balance, it’s somewhat over-the-top action in a spy thriller full of puns that knows at all times how to tease the viewer through the pace, with what is expected of Statham as an undisputed action cinema icon, and with a thriller that promises to bamboozle us – and it does bamboozle us, and in so doing, is a real joy to behold.
Operation Fortune is a delightful spy movie that knows how to be entertaining through the dialogues and the hilarious performances of its protagonists: Josh Hartnett is especially likeable and in tune; and Hugh Grant is a true specialist in this “British” style of elegant comedy that knows how to laugh at its own casual tone.
Good actors and a master in the editing – the director – who knows what he wants in each scene and, above all, how it will look as a whole, in what is important, in the final editing that Hitchcock had so much influence over: a film that knows how to structure itself and get where it wants to almost with mastery in an exercise of pure entertainment; it’s well-made and full, brimful of irony.
Our Opinion
It knows how to be a profoundly English American film, a “Martini on the rocks style” spy thriller with clever one-liners.
And with a great director coordinating all the talent.
A delight for any viewer looking to be entertained.
Premise
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.
Director
Guy Ritchie
Guy Ritchie, September 10th 1968 in Hertfordshire, England, is an English filmmaker, director, producer and screenwriter. he is known for his British gangsters themed movies. Having directed Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998), he made an international breakthrough with the iconic movie Snatch (2000). He has since directed a number of blockbusters such as, Sherlock Holmes, starring Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law, and Aladdin (2019) a live-action adaptation of Disney’s original.
Cast
 Jason Statham / Orson Fortune |  Aubrey Plaza / Sarah Fidel |
 Hugh Grant / Greg Simmonds |  Josh Hartnett / Danny Franscesco |
Bugzy Malone
Cary Elwes / Nathan Jasmine
Eddie Marsan
Max Beesley / Ben Harris
Peter Ferdinando / Mike
Lourdes Faberes / Emilia