David Coleman One of my favourite films of all time. I must've watched it at least 20 times and I love Gleeson, Farrell and Fiennes, in fact the entire cast. I think there's a depth to "In Bruges" and its characters that really touched me. Added to which, it's very funny.
This film is a highly enjoyable gangster romp and I thought everyone was good in it, loved Colin Farrell and Hugh grant the most. Mark will never like this type of film so take little notice of his opinion.
@@OtisF96 Understand your irony but I'd change the ironic quotation marks and say -the problem is that Mark likes "good" films. One should be able to appreciate Kubrick or Ritchie, for the main thing ;enjoyable film-making.
Still love the reviews even when I disagree with you. I thought The Gentlemen was immensely fun. Some dumb plot mechanics but all the actors and the dialogue was really fun and quick. I quite enjoyed it
Just came out of watching this in Australia and it’s absolutely awesome. It kept me entertained all the way through, Hugh Grant steals the film for me. Have your brain switched on when seeing it and you’ll have a great time. A +
@@jamesg8175 Well, if you can count on pretty much always disagreeing with him, then you CAN value his opinion. If he hates a movie, then you'll probably like it. Job done :D Clearly this wasn't a movie for him, and it's his loss really.
100%. He doesn’t seem to be able to separate his personal dislike for GR films from his professional reviews. He needs to at least be aware of it in his line of work.
Totally agree, his biggest weakness is making personal projections into “arguments” against specific targets (Guy in this case) and his “critique” looses so much credibility unfortunately. Ego is often - in those cases - larger than the movie viewing experience, which is worse than the worse movie, to watch and hear
I totally agree, even though I dislike films about criminals just like Kermode. I couldn't watch more than 20 mins of Irish Man (I haven't given up yet). But Ritchie always makes his films very entertaining, graceful and lighthearted, they don't feel turgid or over the top. Camera work and editing don't evoke ADHD in you even though they are fast-paced. There's always great music, colours, acting. I even liked King Arthur. That film ended up a slight mess thanks to studio interference, and it's really easy to see (simply if you know about release date delays). And I'm saying this not as his fan (I haven't watched Aladin and never will), I like Villeneuve, Fincher, etc. much more. But Guy Ritchie really makes gangster movies that are actually watchable. I like Kermode too, but here he makes very unnecessary generalisations - that Hugh Grant is embodying all of the press, that the protagonists are embodying ALL the criminals, but why? They weren't even supercorny archetypal types, they were original fictional characters. Yes, Mahogany was compared to a lion and mumbled all those philosophical lines, but they were simply making fun of that Lincoln ad and True Detective stuff, and it's not hard to see.
bodfishhh it was so goddamn confusing. I had no idea what was going on for the first 40 minutes cause of all the flashbacks and flash forwards and then they’re talking about it as if it’s a script and it’s not real but then it is real and then characters make dumb decisions and aren’t as smart as the movie props them up to be. 3/5 being generous, the characters were likeable at least.
This is kinda off-topic, but TV-version Peaky Blinders may have started out as anti-heroes but by the third season their thuggishness stopped being kinda charming and cool and felt exactly as it is. The show didn't seem to notice, though, and still expected you to like these people and root for them in their thuggish perils.
Renata Trigulova, I completely agree. Once your protagonists stop being the underdog, they’re just engaging in thuggery to keep their illegal businesses afloat. And you stop rooting for them very quickly. Also, I can’t bear the whole faux-feminist, “look at our tough, smoking swearing ladies” shtick. They’re all just nasty arseholes.
The Sopranos did this expertly. The characters were obviously terrible but they were charming and funny so you forgot it. By the end they left you in no doubt our favourite characters were at their core evil psychopaths and they had us fooled too.
@@kevinm2832 I feel differently about the final seasons of the sopranos where to me some of the worst turns of some characters felt very artificial and at odds from who they were at the start of the show. And even in the first season you immediatly had a sense that these people would do anyone harm if there was 5 dollars in it. By the end Tony mainly just kept making sadistic decisions that I felt were off
@@vanessaheine8093 To me they showed their true colors with the character of Grace who had a remarkable life's journey: from an intelligent and principled spy to some young toff's trophy wife and eventually to a gangster's trophy wife, killed off to make the said gangster's life seem more tragic. It's even more appalling if your think that the actress, Annabelle Wallis, died on screen at least 4 (!!!) times in different movies/tv shows for that same purpose...
The Gentleman was an excellent film. Totally disagree with this review, but respect it. It seems like its not his type of film so he wasn't going to like it. If you're a Guy Ritchie fan, or a fan of these films go and see it!
I love Kermode but he really doesnt like Guy Richie especially the brit gangster stuff so hes usually negative about them. Films are still opinion a lot of the time at the end of the day
Lol don't compare lock stock and snatch with the gentleman, the gentleman is like guy Ritchie trying to impersonate his old style of gangster film and failing terribly.
"A bunch of middle-class people who know each other laughing at each other's jokes" ^Not just 'late night review shows' but every BBC smug-fest _panel show_ in the last twenty or so years as well. ;)
@@dogshitballs it's just close minded to think of a director like "he made THAT movie", since directors learn from their mistakes and improve on them and The Gentlemen is a perfect example of that.
Absolutely cracking film, very entertaining great performances from Hugh Grant ,Colin Farrel et al, yes it is a bit mockney but also fast moving stylish funny and cool Mayo does have a point real gangsters arent nice people and should not be glamourised but this is a film not a documentary 5 out of 5 for me.
@@vooveks you sound as though you actually have a problem with that. It's not as if he's claiming 'In Bruges' is the greatest film ever, only that it's the one he enjoys the most.
Went to see it last night and loved it-as did the the rest of the audience,judging by the reaction. Hugh Grant and Colin Farrell had the best lines-haven't laughed as much out loud in a movie for a while. You know what you're going to see a Guy Ritchie for and this delivers on all levels.
It does sound like the same critique levelled at certain kinds comedians who find success and suddenly lose touch with the very thing that they were referencing. I can totally understand that Lock Stock was written by a bloke who was steeped in that culture but that The Gentlemen was written by a bloke who had some vague memory of that culture while sipping his third glass of Dom Perignon '98 on the first class flight to LA...
I loved it and I wasn't a massive fan of Lock stock or Snatch. Hugh Grant steals every scene he in in. I would implore people to ignore this review, go and see it and make up your own mind.
Peter Reed while I did like those earlier movies, I totally agree with you. And this one shows a filmmaker way more mature and accomplished now than he was then.
Do these two know they’re reviewing a movie and not a documentary. If they want an accurate portrayal of gangsters, I can name a few postcodes, no cinema ticket fee required, just a TFL fare.
The Gentlemen is a brilliant movie. It is witty and exciting with great acting. Nostalgic for lovers of Guy Ritchie's "snatch" and "lock, stock and two smoking barrels".
Movie is brilliant, best since snatch. Hearing a guy review the movie with bias and summarise it in a uncharming and unintriguing way is a disservice to the movie and his occupation. Check it out
Eh I just saw it. It's the same thing as before just without a maguffin. It's actors having fun being highly exaggerated geezers. If you like that it will be fine but if you want anything more out of the film and are sick of seeing Ritchie do the same schtick every criticism is fairly valid.
@@zaydossful it's about as entertaining as the amount of his films you've seen. If you've watched all of them it's just more of the same which is fairly boring after awhile. It's not aggressively bad like Revolver it's just sorta forgettable like Rocknrolla. I didn't find it funny or interesting plus you can basically call the entire plot but it's fine. Colin Farrel was the best thing in it, not even his dialogue (which was pretty flat imo) but just his line delivery was the funniest thing in the movie. By more I just want a surprising plot and memorable characters. Both if those things were non-existent in the film imo.
I really really enjoyed Lock, Stock, Snatch, the Sherlock Holmes films and Man from UNCLE. I thought King Arthur and Rock n’ Rolla were enjoyable. Yes, real criminals are horrible. But where do we draw the line? The Ocean’s series is about criminals. Thunderbolt and Lightfoot are criminals, Cool Hand Luke is about criminals etc. etc.
@@davidjames579 Oz and The Sopranos are two of the best written TV shows of all time. Most of the characters are thoroughly unlikeable. The dialogue and storylines are so fully realised, you get lost in these characters worlds for a brief time and forget that they're all out murdering psychopaths
@@GG57 In Oz though some of the characters had at least some redeemable qualities - Beecher. Kareem Said, or because of what they endured you actually wanted some peace for them - e.g. Alvarez.
I disagree with mark on this one. I enjoyed it a lot, the dialog was great, I thought the story moved on at a good pace and the high grant character holds a lot of it together.
Its corny and stupid portrayals of “english gangsters” was not even close to reality nor were they anywhere as interesting as those from his past films .
Personally I loved this movies. It gave me very much British Tarantino vibes. The standout was definitely Hugh Grant, taking on a role completely different to what anyone would expect of him. If he wasn’t in the opening I don’t think most people would have realised that was him. I will admit parts of it feel a bit try-hard, especially with the non-chronological elements of the story (a bit like Layer Cake, which did the same thing) which led to it all feeling about over-complicated and I couldn’t really follow it by the end, but I still enjoyed the film.
Just watched it... fantastical fun. Not meant to be serious . Kind of like a comic strip. Totally get kermode’s points but sometimes I just want to escape with frivolous shite with a bit of style. When I want genius and gritty crime drama I watch the wire
The Sherlock Holmes films are indeed very good and they're the only Guy Ritchie films that he doesn't script himself. I think that I can see the problem. He's a film-maker; he's not a writer.
Snatch and Lock Stock were good, the rest of Ritchie’s stuff has been dire IMO. Haven’t seen this latest yet but was hoping it was a return to form. The fact that Kermode didn’t like it along with his other cockney gangster films bodes well! 😂
Tangentially off-topic comment: What I took away from this review? I’d absolutely *love* to visit a pub owned by Mark Kermode! Conditions of entry to the premises? *All* conversations *must* be *Wittertainment-based!* Grounds for being barred for life? *Anybody* who *actually liked* the 'Sex & the City,' 'Transformers' or 'Entourage' films!
Completely missing the point. It's CARTOONERY! Ritchie's film's aren't mean't be taken so seriously and analysed within an inch of their life! It's just escapist nonsense.
being escapist nonsense doesn't absolve a film of needing to be good also if you've ever heard guy Ritchie talk about the "symbolism" in revolver you'd know that he doesn't see his films that way, and thinks himself a lot cleverer than he actually is
I mean it was ok. My father saw Colin Farrell have a break from film outside a cafe since the film was filmed near where his partner lives. He took me there an hour before seeing film and then we recognized owner who was an extra in film.
Sorry Mark, I have to disagree . I loved the film particularly Colin Farrell and Hugh Grant who both stole the show. I thought it was hugely entertaining and funny.
Just seen The Gentlemen with my partner and we both throughly enjoyed it: every single minute. What a brilliant film. Mark's wrong on this one. The cast are fantastic, great story, funny as well.
This was a fantastic piece of entertainment, one of guys best in years. I dont think this was the ki d of flick you really need to think too hard about, just a well structured action flick.
Were people so hungry for pre-Madonna Guy Ritchie they thought this was a good film? The Gentleman came across like someone trying to do a Guy Ritchie film to lesser effect. I was honestly surprised this was a Guy Ritchie film; like that mistaken belief Michael Bay directed Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles because TMNT was so similar to the Transformer films. Guy moved a long way away from Snatch and Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels. I don't think he's ever going to get the old magic back.
Loved this movie. I'm sure Mark can disect it and come up with reasons as to why it's no good but that's irrelevant because it's a great bit of entertainment. The whole is more than the sum of it's parts. If you don't find it entertaining I don't know what you want, some fantastic performances.
FINALLY! I just saw the film and went through all of the major youtube reviewers and Mark is the first one who finally gets across how pompous and aggrandizing the film was. I thought it was a decently well made film with some great funny dialogue but so much of it was about praising how cool the rich and powerful gangster men were without any self awareness to their nastiness.
'I found it coming across as irritatingly smug and a little bit annoying and rubbish'. Mark you really should stop projecting it's not healthy for you 🤣
I hate Hugh Grant - knowing he's in a film is normally sufficient to stop me ever watching it. But he's brilliant in this. He gives a riveting performance. Can't believe I just said that. But I did.
Once again the rule is accurate. If film reviewers give a bad review of a film then it's worth watching and vice versa. "The Gentlemen" is probably one of the best films put out in the last decade.
The big problem for me here was the awkward portrayal of the Triad gang. Like the 'pikey' jokes of Snatch, I think it's simply not something that sits alongside the stock comedy Eastender-gangster; it's just racist 'Eastern Menace' stuff. Was painful to watch.
I have a lot of respect for Mark Kermode but there are certain films, that you know when you watch them, he is not going to be a fan of and I knew that The Gentlemen would fall into that category. Personally, for all its silliness (and there is a lot) I really enjoyed it.
The fact that he liked Sherlock Holmes movies more than the likes of Lock Stock, Snatch, and Rock N Rolla speaks volumes to what his is looking for in movies...and i am not here for it.
If you guys are confused or saddened by this review, take into account that Mark doesnt like any Guy Ritchie gangster film, so if you like lock stock or snatch, you’ll probably like this
I watched it expecting to be wowed because I'm pretty much a fan of the whole cast. I though this film was a waste of the storage space and the time of the cast. It was acted well and directed well. But the story was boring crap. So, spot on Mark.
Oh man that's an interesting take I absolutely loved the movie. It kind of reminds me of how Mark was also annoyed by films like 500 Days of Summer and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
Kinda had mixed feelings about the movie. Love the cast. Everybody is so good. Hugh Grant is damn near unrecognizable without cosmetics in everything from his demeanor, speech, etc. These are also my favorite respective roles of Charlie Hunnam and Colin Farrell. But I really didn't like the framing device. The whole thing being told through imagined flashback by Hugh Grant's character just isn't something that I was feeling. It felt a little too self-inserting on Guy Ritchie's part, unnecessarily chaotic and lazy. I also didn't like the ending. MM's character should've lost a little bit. Everything just worked out perfectly for him in that far-fetched way that only happens in movies. I'm not saying killing Dockery's character (his wife in the movie) but maybe that should've happened too though really he should've lost a piece of his business. Something. The ending just felt like nothing much happened. Some cool things were said, some people died but really it's a status quo ending where I'm left thinking that was cool but let down at the expense of something that could've been great. Falls well short of Snatch.
I kind of agree that it maybe wasn't believable that he didn't lose anything,but the overarching idea of the movie is that MM has grown a little long in the tooth and everybody thinks he's softened up and his empire is ripe for the picking,so the entire film is about him proving that he still has what is needed to thrive and in the process reclaim some pride.Plus if you read the movie as kind of autobiographical(in the sense that MM's character is Guy Ritchie,the one who needs to reclaim hia throne as the king of movies like this)then MM really can't lose anything in thw context of the movie.
I really hope not, it felt really tired to me. Certainly one and done, entertaining enough for a few hours but I'll never watch it again. I think Revolver is my favourite, but that's if I've put the correct title to the correct film. But that's Guy all over, I can't quite tell them apart.
I’ve seen the movie and found it to be highly entertaining. Its not a literal account on real world gangsters - just a pantomime. However, what I think Mark misses here, which is something he has always argued for previously, is that the movie caters for it’s target audience really well. If you are a 'Tarantino fan’, as Mark derides in this review, or just like silly gangster movies, then you’ll love this. Mark isn’t in the target audience, clearly, so his review doesn’t reflect this at all.
It's a weird thing maybe that came with age, but I find myself more and more annoyed at the way films mythologize frankly horrific criminals. Even when the film's general message is this way of life is bad, the framing often implies the opposite. I'm reminded about how American History X is loved by neo-Nazis. Even something like Goodfellas I've had to go back and watch again.
The film irritated the hell out of me because it was the usual mockney gangster characters we've seen so many times before from posh boy Ritchie. Yawn.
‘ I never felt entertained by it’. Luckily it wasn’t written to entertain you Mr Kermode. Is it not high brow enough for you, mr pretentious. It’s just a fun film.
In Bruges is utterly brilliant.
My man
David Coleman One of my favourite films of all time. I must've watched it at least 20 times and I love Gleeson, Farrell and Fiennes, in fact the entire cast. I think there's a depth to "In Bruges" and its characters that really touched me. Added to which, it's very funny.
@@pamelaatkinsonscats2873 seesaw gets me every time
Agree. God knows what Simon mayos been doing all this time.
- I didn't even know where Bruges was. .... It's in Belgium.
Agreed. Fiennes is on top form in that one, and so is Farrell. Great writing as well.
Great how he gives up and just sticks with 'Mahogany' early on 😂
Bracher T I wonder if he was doing it deliberately. Maybe he has some kind of a beef with Mr Mahogany
Mark's a busy guy, he doesn't have time to keep pronuncing certain names correctly.
Yes I noticed this. 😂
@@darkbarker it's just a it of fun. He called Orlando Bloom 'Orloondo Bland' 😂
Jay Foreman and Mark Cooper were right. Southerners do say mahogany at least twice a day.
5:07 for Mark's fax machine impression
This film is a highly enjoyable gangster romp and I thought everyone was good in it, loved Colin Farrell and Hugh grant the most.
Mark will never like this type of film so take little notice of his opinion.
@@OtisF96 Understand your irony but I'd change the ironic quotation marks and say -the problem is that Mark likes "good" films. One should be able to appreciate Kubrick or Ritchie, for the main thing ;enjoyable film-making.
Still love the reviews even when I disagree with you. I thought The Gentlemen was immensely fun. Some dumb plot mechanics but all the actors and the dialogue was really fun and quick. I quite enjoyed it
It’s a very entertaining film, I don’t think it’s trying to be anything else
People... Star Wars...Toxic fans.....can't enjoy anything anymore etc.
Hold on a minute don’t we go to the Cinema to escape from ordinary life. This movie was awesome, Guy Ritchie back to his best. 8/10.
Ryan Butterworth the shame is that Ritchie’s best is only just good enough
Ryan Butterworth, I agree with you. Loved it. As did my buddy I went with.
Movie was funnier and more entertaining than i expected.
Just came out of watching this in Australia and it’s absolutely awesome. It kept me entertained all the way through, Hugh Grant steals the film for me. Have your brain switched on when seeing it and you’ll have a great time. A +
How was colin in the movie?
Francis Drake He plays a gym owner called coach and has some of the best comical lines.
@@jasongoodacre No he phucing doesnt!
@@fradrake11 Brilliant.
Jason Goodacre how can I have my brain switched off if is super confusing and muddled in the first act.
I like Mark Kermode and value his judgment generally, but he is not the reviewer to be listening to about this film.
@@jamesg8175 Well, if you can count on pretty much always disagreeing with him, then you CAN value his opinion. If he hates a movie, then you'll probably like it. Job done :D
Clearly this wasn't a movie for him, and it's his loss really.
@@rebeccaschade3987 but it's not his loss is it
I feel like Kermode hates Guy Ritchie on a personal level. For the life of me, I don't understand his immense dislike for everything the man has done.
100%. He doesn’t seem to be able to separate his personal dislike for GR films from his professional reviews. He needs to at least be aware of it in his line of work.
In the first minute of this video he says he liked the Sherlock films and Alladin was alright...
Totally agree, his biggest weakness is making personal projections into “arguments” against specific targets (Guy in this case) and his “critique” looses so much credibility unfortunately. Ego is often - in those cases - larger than the movie viewing experience, which is worse than the worse movie, to watch and hear
Cause he’s a terrible filmmaker lol
Normally really like Kermode’s reviews but couldn’t disagree more on this one. Brilliant funny film 9/10. Just don’t think this style is for him.
I totally agree, even though I dislike films about criminals just like Kermode. I couldn't watch more than 20 mins of Irish Man (I haven't given up yet). But Ritchie always makes his films very entertaining, graceful and lighthearted, they don't feel turgid or over the top. Camera work and editing don't evoke ADHD in you even though they are fast-paced. There's always great music, colours, acting. I even liked King Arthur. That film ended up a slight mess thanks to studio interference, and it's really easy to see (simply if you know about release date delays). And I'm saying this not as his fan (I haven't watched Aladin and never will), I like Villeneuve, Fincher, etc. much more. But Guy Ritchie really makes gangster movies that are actually watchable.
I like Kermode too, but here he makes very unnecessary generalisations - that Hugh Grant is embodying all of the press, that the protagonists are embodying ALL the criminals, but why? They weren't even supercorny archetypal types, they were original fictional characters. Yes, Mahogany was compared to a lion and mumbled all those philosophical lines, but they were simply making fun of that Lincoln ad and True Detective stuff, and it's not hard to see.
not WOKE enough for Mark
bodfishhh it was so goddamn confusing. I had no idea what was going on for the first 40 minutes cause of all the flashbacks and flash forwards and then they’re talking about it as if it’s a script and it’s not real but then it is real and then characters make dumb decisions and aren’t as smart as the movie props them up to be. 3/5 being generous, the characters were likeable at least.
@@Ira__L You say you dislike films about criminals but some of the greatest films ever made are about criminals...
Same here. Loved it. Laughed through so much of it, I have to see it again.
This is kinda off-topic, but TV-version Peaky Blinders may have started out as anti-heroes but by the third season their thuggishness stopped being kinda charming and cool and felt exactly as it is. The show didn't seem to notice, though, and still expected you to like these people and root for them in their thuggish perils.
Renata Trigulova, I completely agree. Once your protagonists stop being the underdog, they’re just engaging in thuggery to keep their illegal businesses afloat. And you stop rooting for them very quickly. Also, I can’t bear the whole faux-feminist, “look at our tough, smoking swearing ladies” shtick. They’re all just nasty arseholes.
The Sopranos did this expertly. The characters were obviously terrible but they were charming and funny so you forgot it. By the end they left you in no doubt our favourite characters were at their core evil psychopaths and they had us fooled too.
@@kevinm2832 I feel differently about the final seasons of the sopranos where to me some of the worst turns of some characters felt very artificial and at odds from who they were at the start of the show. And even in the first season you immediatly had a sense that these people would do anyone harm if there was 5 dollars in it. By the end Tony mainly just kept making sadistic decisions that I felt were off
@@ultra7021 I always enjoyed Silvio and the moment he dragged Adriana from the car was 💔 to me lol.
@@vanessaheine8093 To me they showed their true colors with the character of Grace who had a remarkable life's journey: from an intelligent and principled spy to some young toff's trophy wife and eventually to a gangster's trophy wife, killed off to make the said gangster's life seem more tragic. It's even more appalling if your think that the actress, Annabelle Wallis, died on screen at least 4 (!!!) times in different movies/tv shows for that same purpose...
The Gentleman was an excellent film. Totally disagree with this review, but respect it. It seems like its not his type of film so he wasn't going to like it. If you're a Guy Ritchie fan, or a fan of these films go and see it!
I love Kermode but he really doesnt like Guy Richie especially the brit gangster stuff so hes usually negative about them. Films are still opinion a lot of the time at the end of the day
If you love Lock, stock and Snatch then you're gonna like The Gentlemen.
That's good enough for me
Snatch meets rocknrolla awesome film one of his best
Totally agree
Agreed. Great film.
Lol don't compare lock stock and snatch with the gentleman, the gentleman is like guy Ritchie trying to impersonate his old style of gangster film and failing terribly.
Just watched it. I thought The Gentlemen was great and so did my girlfriend.
Wow , you should do reviews for a career
I just don’t know why people feel the need to brag about such minor things.
Your girlfriend said she hated it when she watched it with me
"A bunch of middle-class people who know each other laughing at each other's jokes"
^Not just 'late night review shows' but every BBC smug-fest _panel show_ in the last twenty or so years as well. ;)
Just what I was thinking!!!
"He's the guy that wrote revolver", yeah he's also the guy who wrote and directed Snatch and Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels.
Yes, and since the time he wrote Lock Stock, and Snatch he is the guy that brought you..... Revolver "a true trash fire"
@@dogshitballs it's just close minded to think of a director like "he made THAT movie", since directors learn from their mistakes and improve on them and The Gentlemen is a perfect example of that.
@@chronickiwi7747 But if he didn't like the movie, how can he come to the conclusion that he learned from his mistakes?
Absolutely cracking film, very entertaining great performances from Hugh Grant ,Colin Farrel et al, yes it is a bit mockney but also fast moving stylish funny and cool Mayo does have a point real gangsters arent nice people and should not be glamourised but this is a film not a documentary 5 out of 5 for me.
The scene in the car at the end was taken from the ending of Bob Hoskins' Long Good Friday...
Exactly what I said to my wife when we watched it.
In Bruges is my favourite film, nice to hear Mark talk about it
Have you seen Lucky number Slevin. Did not get good reviews at the tume but its a great film.
@@Northstar-Media brilliant flick the twists are brilliant
@@vooveks only have to see one
@@vooveks At least 23, I'm not entirely sure - I can't count once I run out of fingers and toes
@@vooveks you sound as though you actually have a problem with that. It's not as if he's claiming 'In Bruges' is the greatest film ever, only that it's the one he enjoys the most.
Went to see it last night and loved it-as did the the rest of the audience,judging by the reaction.
Hugh Grant and Colin Farrell had the best lines-haven't laughed as much out loud in a movie for a while.
You know what you're going to see a Guy Ritchie for and this delivers on all levels.
"Irritatingly smug, a little bit annoying and rubbish" perfect way to describe this review.
Allan Snackbar nah mark nailed it perfectly
Elliot Gillies nah
Natsu Dragion77 yee 😆
It does sound like the same critique levelled at certain kinds comedians who find success and suddenly lose touch with the very thing that they were referencing. I can totally understand that Lock Stock was written by a bloke who was steeped in that culture but that The Gentlemen was written by a bloke who had some vague memory of that culture while sipping his third glass of Dom Perignon '98 on the first class flight to LA...
@Ice Hockey is Pretty Pretty Good fair point... 😂
I loved it and I wasn't a massive fan of Lock stock or Snatch. Hugh Grant steals every scene he in in. I would implore people to ignore this review, go and see it and make up your own mind.
Peter Reed while I did like those earlier movies, I totally agree with you. And this one shows a filmmaker way more mature and accomplished now than he was then.
Do these two know they’re reviewing a movie and not a documentary. If they want an accurate portrayal of gangsters, I can name a few postcodes, no cinema ticket fee required, just a TFL fare.
grewalb26 oh do share 😂
I like kermode but he lost me here when he said " there are words you just can't say "
The Gentlemen is a brilliant movie. It is witty and exciting with great acting. Nostalgic for lovers of Guy Ritchie's "snatch" and "lock, stock and two smoking barrels".
Movie is brilliant, best since snatch. Hearing a guy review the movie with bias and summarise it in a uncharming and unintriguing way is a disservice to the movie and his occupation. Check it out
Great movie
Eh I just saw it. It's the same thing as before just without a maguffin. It's actors having fun being highly exaggerated geezers. If you like that it will be fine but if you want anything more out of the film and are sick of seeing Ritchie do the same schtick every criticism is fairly valid.
@@danielyoung6778 it's a entertaining and fun movie, I don't think by the trailer u would go into the movie expecting anything more anyway
@@zaydossful it's about as entertaining as the amount of his films you've seen. If you've watched all of them it's just more of the same which is fairly boring after awhile. It's not aggressively bad like Revolver it's just sorta forgettable like Rocknrolla. I didn't find it funny or interesting plus you can basically call the entire plot but it's fine. Colin Farrel was the best thing in it, not even his dialogue (which was pretty flat imo) but just his line delivery was the funniest thing in the movie.
By more I just want a surprising plot and memorable characters. Both if those things were non-existent in the film imo.
@@danielyoung6778 if that's your opinion fe, I do think most people will have fun with it tho
I really really enjoyed Lock, Stock, Snatch, the Sherlock Holmes films and Man from UNCLE. I thought King Arthur and Rock n’ Rolla were enjoyable.
Yes, real criminals are horrible. But where do we draw the line? The Ocean’s series is about criminals. Thunderbolt and Lightfoot are criminals, Cool Hand Luke is about criminals etc. etc.
@@davidjames579 Oz and The Sopranos are two of the best written TV shows of all time. Most of the characters are thoroughly unlikeable. The dialogue and storylines are so fully realised, you get lost in these characters worlds for a brief time and forget that they're all out murdering psychopaths
@@GG57 In Oz though some of the characters had at least some redeemable qualities - Beecher. Kareem Said, or because of what they endured you actually wanted some peace for them - e.g. Alvarez.
If Mark HAD gone ahead and said that the dialogue is literally peeling the wallpaper off the walls, my head would have literally exploded.
@Chris Darby Ironically. 🙂
Colin Farrell was one of the best parts this film was quality mate u have no idea what ur on about
@@Nathan-gd7xq what ? I just think the film is really gd and Colin farrell played a big part in that.
I take it Mark Kermode's is not Guy Ritchie fan then? This movie he is slating is fantastic.
I disagree with mark on this one. I enjoyed it a lot, the dialog was great, I thought the story moved on at a good pace and the high grant character holds a lot of it together.
Its corny and stupid portrayals of “english gangsters” was not even close to reality nor were they anywhere as interesting as those from his past films .
@@humanoid6255 Doesnt need to be reality. It's a comedy and as with any comedy, everything is exaggerated.
Personally I loved this movies. It gave me very much British Tarantino vibes. The standout was definitely Hugh Grant, taking on a role completely different to what anyone would expect of him. If he wasn’t in the opening I don’t think most people would have realised that was him. I will admit parts of it feel a bit try-hard, especially with the non-chronological elements of the story (a bit like Layer Cake, which did the same thing) which led to it all feeling about over-complicated and I couldn’t really follow it by the end, but I still enjoyed the film.
Just watched it... fantastical fun. Not meant to be serious . Kind of like a comic strip. Totally get kermode’s points but sometimes I just want to escape with frivolous shite with a bit of style.
When I want genius and gritty crime drama I watch the wire
The Sherlock Holmes films are indeed very good and they're the only Guy Ritchie films that he doesn't script himself. I think that I can see the problem. He's a film-maker; he's not a writer.
I feel like if this came out in the mid-2000s Mark would’ve properly slated this like he did with Revolver and RockNRolla 😂
“They say things they shouldn’t be able to say” was a bit of a surprise to hear from Mark. I’m intrigued...
Snatch and Lock Stock were good, the rest of Ritchie’s stuff has been dire IMO. Haven’t seen this latest yet but was hoping it was a return to form. The fact that Kermode didn’t like it along with his other cockney gangster films bodes well! 😂
It’s awesome, dont listen to this guy
Tangentially off-topic comment: What I took away from this review? I’d absolutely *love* to visit a pub owned by Mark Kermode! Conditions of entry to the premises? *All* conversations *must* be *Wittertainment-based!* Grounds for being barred for life? *Anybody* who *actually liked* the 'Sex & the City,' 'Transformers' or 'Entourage' films!
Lorna Ginette Harrison Zack Snyder & Danny Dyer are also barred
Completely missing the point.
It's CARTOONERY!
Ritchie's film's aren't mean't be taken so seriously and analysed within an inch of their life!
It's just escapist nonsense.
being escapist nonsense doesn't absolve a film of needing to be good
also if you've ever heard guy Ritchie talk about the "symbolism" in revolver you'd know that he doesn't see his films that way, and thinks himself a lot cleverer than he actually is
@@vvvictoriav5958 😂😂😂😴
@@vvvictoriav5958 revolver didn't work for me, but I'm probably missing something.....or it's just sh2t
I mean it was ok. My father saw Colin Farrell have a break from film outside a cafe since the film was filmed near where his partner lives. He took me there an hour before seeing film and then we recognized owner who was an extra in film.
Sorry Mark, I have to disagree . I loved the film particularly Colin Farrell and Hugh Grant who both stole the show. I thought it was hugely entertaining and funny.
I can help thinking it is being criticised for being exactly what it was intended to be
Just seen The Gentlemen with my partner and we both throughly enjoyed it: every single minute. What a brilliant film. Mark's wrong on this one. The cast are fantastic, great story, funny as well.
That's Me agreed!
Mark is wrong more than he's right
How can someone’s opinion be wrong , we should all agree to disagree.
This was a fantastic piece of entertainment, one of guys best in years. I dont think this was the ki d of flick you really need to think too hard about, just a well structured action flick.
Haha, how quick was Simon to respond with a resounding 'NO!' when asked could he do an impression of Hugh Grant's character? Instantaneous 😄
Were people so hungry for pre-Madonna Guy Ritchie they thought this was a good film? The Gentleman came across like someone trying to do a Guy Ritchie film to lesser effect. I was honestly surprised this was a Guy Ritchie film; like that mistaken belief Michael Bay directed Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles because TMNT was so similar to the Transformer films.
Guy moved a long way away from Snatch and Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels. I don't think he's ever going to get the old magic back.
Save 8 minutes. Kermode didn't like it.
This dude just said Matthew MAHOGANY!. Mahogany like the wood! Lol 1:10
Mark actually says Mahogany at 1:09...
Deliberately. It's a running joke on the show whenever Mcconaughey is a topic. He also regularly refers to Hugh Jackman as "Huge Action".
@@bokehintheussr5033 McGHEEEEE
Loved this movie. I'm sure Mark can disect it and come up with reasons as to why it's no good but that's irrelevant because it's a great bit of entertainment.
The whole is more than the sum of it's parts.
If you don't find it entertaining I don't know what you want, some fantastic performances.
Come on, Snatch and Lock Stock were great. They're just meant to be fun. Glad Ritchie is going back to gangster
At precisely 1:08 “Mathew MA HOG ANY” 😂🤣
Watched half an hour of it, couldn't bear it, turned it off and wondered what Mark had to say about it. He did not disappoint.
I really enjoyed it, can't see the comparison to in Bruges though. It's a fun crime caper, I wouldn't really try and think to much into it.
I loved The Man From UNCLE I hope Ritchie makes another
I loved that film great chemistry amongst the cast
I loved that film.
08:24 - "I'm not sure you should be doing that role". Is he talking about hugh grant?
Four minutes until Mark takes a sharp left and starts re-reviewing a film he saw years ago. Incredibly, it's not The Exorcist.
They say things they "shouldn't be allowed to say"? Settle down there Mao.
FINALLY! I just saw the film and went through all of the major youtube reviewers and Mark is the first one who finally gets across how pompous and aggrandizing the film was. I thought it was a decently well made film with some great funny dialogue but so much of it was about praising how cool the rich and powerful gangster men were without any self awareness to their nastiness.
Matthew Mahogany is one of the best woods out there for sure
Literally every point he made is incorrect. Fantastic film, Ritchie's best film yet.
The man from uncle is very underrated. Such a fun movie with great performances.
'I found it coming across as irritatingly smug and a little bit annoying and rubbish'. Mark you really should stop projecting it's not healthy for you 🤣
You haven't seen In Bruges, for shame sir for shame!
I hate Hugh Grant - knowing he's in a film is normally sufficient to stop me ever watching it.
But he's brilliant in this. He gives a riveting performance.
Can't believe I just said that. But I did.
What's the brand Colin wears in the film?
Once again the rule is accurate. If film reviewers give a bad review of a film then it's worth watching and vice versa. "The Gentlemen" is probably one of the best films put out in the last decade.
Really think Mark K has got it totally wrong on this one. Fun, fast dialogue, great photography. Brilliant cast. Great score. It’s well worth a watch.
Man From UNCLE was fantastic.
I enjoyed the hell out of that film
Hot damn Simon can hold his own review-wise.
Can't see Matthew mahogany without thinking back to True Detective s1. Great tv
Colin Farrell is better as a character actor.
The big problem for me here was the awkward portrayal of the Triad gang. Like the 'pikey' jokes of Snatch, I think it's simply not something that sits alongside the stock comedy Eastender-gangster; it's just racist 'Eastern Menace' stuff. Was painful to watch.
I bet he's talking about Eddie Marsan's character at 8:18 there.
I have a lot of respect for Mark Kermode but there are certain films, that you know when you watch them, he is not going to be a fan of and I knew that The Gentlemen would fall into that category. Personally, for all its silliness (and there is a lot) I really enjoyed it.
The fact that he liked Sherlock Holmes movies more than the likes of Lock Stock, Snatch, and Rock N Rolla speaks volumes to what his is looking for in movies...and i am not here for it.
If you guys are confused or saddened by this review, take into account that Mark doesnt like any Guy Ritchie gangster film, so if you like lock stock or snatch, you’ll probably like this
Ben Bacharach Yeah, I did enjoy Snatch. I’m glad to see Ritchie going back to his roots.
Alright me old china, going down the rub-a-dub? I need to get some pie and mash from the Jordell. 😉🤣. That’s the mockney dialogue for you.
@Chris Darby ...or roll-mops. I love roll-mops, me. They don't half pen & ink, though.
the metafictional aspect of this cinematic outing makes this special
I bloody loved it, scenery hasnt been chewed that effectively in years
I watched it expecting to be wowed because I'm pretty much a fan of the whole cast. I though this film was a waste of the storage space and the time of the cast. It was acted well and directed well. But the story was boring crap.
So, spot on Mark.
Oh man that's an interesting take I absolutely loved the movie. It kind of reminds me of how Mark was also annoyed by films like 500 Days of Summer and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
Kinda had mixed feelings about the movie. Love the cast. Everybody is so good. Hugh Grant is damn near unrecognizable without cosmetics in everything from his demeanor, speech, etc. These are also my favorite respective roles of Charlie Hunnam and Colin Farrell. But I really didn't like the framing device. The whole thing being told through imagined flashback by Hugh Grant's character just isn't something that I was feeling. It felt a little too self-inserting on Guy Ritchie's part, unnecessarily chaotic and lazy. I also didn't like the ending.
MM's character should've lost a little bit. Everything just worked out perfectly for him in that far-fetched way that only happens in movies. I'm not saying killing Dockery's character (his wife in the movie) but maybe that should've happened too though really he should've lost a piece of his business. Something. The ending just felt like nothing much happened. Some cool things were said, some people died but really it's a status quo ending where I'm left thinking that was cool but let down at the expense of something that could've been great. Falls well short of Snatch.
I kind of agree that it maybe wasn't believable that he didn't lose anything,but the overarching idea of the movie is that MM has grown a little long in the tooth and everybody thinks he's softened up and his empire is ripe for the picking,so the entire film is about him proving that he still has what is needed to thrive and in the process reclaim some pride.Plus if you read the movie as kind of autobiographical(in the sense that MM's character is Guy Ritchie,the one who needs to reclaim hia throne as the king of movies like this)then MM really can't lose anything in thw context of the movie.
I believe this film will be regarded as a classic in years to come.
I really hope not, it felt really tired to me.
Certainly one and done, entertaining enough for a few hours but I'll never watch it again.
I think Revolver is my favourite, but that's if I've put the correct title to the correct film.
But that's Guy all over, I can't quite tell them apart.
I’ve seen the movie and found it to be highly entertaining. Its not a literal account on real world gangsters - just a pantomime. However, what I think Mark misses here, which is something he has always argued for previously, is that the movie caters for it’s target audience really well. If you are a 'Tarantino fan’, as Mark derides in this review, or just like silly gangster movies, then you’ll love this. Mark isn’t in the target audience, clearly, so his review doesn’t reflect this at all.
This movie was rank. I completely agree with Mark. 3/10.
I like how every person who seems to hate this movie either works in the press or has close friends who do
It's a weird thing maybe that came with age, but I find myself more and more annoyed at the way films mythologize frankly horrific criminals. Even when the film's general message is this way of life is bad, the framing often implies the opposite. I'm reminded about how American History X is loved by neo-Nazis. Even something like Goodfellas I've had to go back and watch again.
When is this actually released? Can't see it on any Cineworld listings for this week or next.
Jan 1st
A bit sad to hear this. I was on the fence about this one, and Kermode is usually pretty in line with my feelings. I may wait until it hits video.
Simon Mayo is morphing into Christopher Walken don't you think.
If he is then he's taking his time. Ha ha
The Gentlemen is a superb film, enjoyed every minute of it.
I think this shows Simon needs to watch In Bruges a.s.a.p. Fair enough talking about Colin's performance, but Brendan Gleeson is superb for me.
He praises Colin's performance in In Bruges. Weren't you listening?
Tristan Burke He’s referring to Simon Mayo, the presenter. He mentioned he hadn’t seen in bruges.
I was a big Kermode fan, but he is well off the mark on this one, it’s a great movie!
Here to say, if you haven't watched In Bruges, go watch In Bruges, and prepare for one of the best pieces of modern cinema EVER.
The film irritated the hell out of me because it was the usual mockney gangster characters we've seen so many times before from posh boy Ritchie. Yawn.
‘ I never felt entertained by it’. Luckily it wasn’t written to entertain you Mr Kermode.
Is it not high brow enough for you, mr pretentious. It’s just a fun film.