Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre

Lionsgate | Release Date: March 3, 2023

6.4	USER SCORE Generally favorable reviews based on 60 Ratings

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abc1234567890Mar 20, 2023

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. LOL, so funny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!… Expand

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Majorcritic25Mar 3, 2023

A very solid movie. This movie is really entertaining and well paced. If you are looking for a fun movie to watch with your family or friends, this is that kind of film.

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KapitoshkMar 5, 2023

Excellent movie! I love Guy Ritchie style and 'Operation Fortune' is like Gentlemen + U.N.C.L.E: if you liked this two -> you'll get excited from Fortune. Please don't pass by this movie - it deserves to get a sequel.

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davemelbourne58Mar 12, 2023

This is a classic "Lads" movie.
It's got exotic locations.
It's got double-crossing spies. It's got great action sequences. It has Aubrey Plaza dropping witty (sarcastic) bon mots. It has Hugh Grant enjoying playing a rougish bad guy. It hasThis is a classic "Lads" movie.
It's got exotic locations.
It's got double-crossing spies.
It's got great action sequences.
It has Aubrey Plaza dropping witty (sarcastic) bon mots.
It has Hugh Grant enjoying playing a rougish bad guy.
It has a plot that's all over the place.
But it's NOT boring, and it's hardly PC at all.
Like my favorite ice cream flavor, it's not healthy for you, but it goes down nicely.
I didn't learn ANYTHING by watching this mindlessly fun movie.… Expand

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royalguy07Mar 8, 2023

I may just be a 'Guy Ritchie Guy' now after this and 2021's excellent 'Wrath of Man'. A well above average spy thriller that is much more spy stuff than action. The humor isn't always great. The characters were fun though I wish Statham had aI may just be a 'Guy Ritchie Guy' now after this and 2021's excellent 'Wrath of Man'. A well above average spy thriller that is much more spy stuff than action. The humor isn't always great. The characters were fun though I wish Statham had a little more to do than scowl and punch people.… Expand

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DukeJonJul 9, 2023

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. It's ok. Just your average globe-trotting spy caper. I was disappointed in Jason Statham as I was hoping he would reprised a character similar to the role he played in "spy". We know he can handle comedy but the script is a bit thin in terms of laughs. This movie never quite hits the right notes, I feel if they'd sharpened up the script it might have been a lot better. See "Red notice" for a similar movie that works because all the main leads have great chemistry. Hugh Grant is a standout as the billionaire arms dealer. Aubrey Plaza is also good but not high the red-hot babe the film wants us to believe her to be. The rest of the characters are quite forgettable. Also I didn't really buy into the premise of the UK having competing spy departments with unlimited budgets. The body count is also surprisingly high for a film of this type. The infiltration at the end sees a virtual slaughter of nameless henchmen - I would have preferred it if Statham's character had stealthily moved past them or incapacitated them rather than shoot everyone in the head without a second thought. Seemed quite jarring against all the humour. Bugzy Malone is also quite underused - just a "yes boss" sidekick with no influence over the movie. It's a decent enough movie but with never quite adds up to the sum of its parts.… Expand

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hnestlyontheslyMay 22, 2023

Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre is Guy Ritchie’s latest project and in many ways it follows the formula that has made his films such a treat in the past: a star-studded ensemble, witty dialogue, and very impressive brawling. It also happensOperation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre is Guy Ritchie’s latest project and in many ways it follows the formula that has made his films such a treat in the past: a star-studded ensemble, witty dialogue, and very impressive brawling. It also happens to have some twists and turns that allow you to root for the baddies from time to time and to hiss at the goodies, which is fun. Aubrey Plaza holds her own against the boys by rolling her eyes whenever she can. Jason Statham never, ever takes a punch, as if he’s contractually not allowed to, which basically amounts to him beating the **** out of an endless parade of special ops guys dressed in plain clothes like Mario having ingested a star plowing through his enemies to get to the ever-wandering McGuffin of the film, a briefcase containing… something? dangerous? (The actual threat to humanity that’s being sold at the steep, steep price of $10b is trendily stupid and the evil geniuses plot is similarly pretty dull – I mean, hey, it’s not buying up all the world’s aquifers and then making it really hot dumb, but it’s not dissimilar to that.) Really the only person who has a difficult time of it is Bugzy Malone, who gets stuck shooting people from afar like my Brother playing Call of Duty for the past ten years. Bugzy spends a lot of the movie saying stuff like, “Sounds good, boss,” and “Do you want me to get the car started, boss?” which is no way to steal the show. Josh Hartnett’s role as an action hero used as a honeypot for a criminal kingpin fan weirdly twins the plot of another film in recent memory, where x plays an action hero used as a honeypot for a criminal kingpin fan. After a little bit of online sleuthing the only two movies I can find that follow this pattern are from 2022, The Lost City of Z and more so the Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent.

But Friend after I mentioned this at the movie supplied Ocean’s 8 as having a similar plotline, and TVTropes talks about casting stars as stars and metacasting quite a bit, though none of them are the exact match that I am thinking of at the moment.

Criticisms of the weirdnesses of the plot aside, the way in which Ritchie toys with genre scenes, the heist, the banter between the team and the banter between the rival teams, and ultimately the twist in allegiances make for a satisfying watch. The script is positively buoyant, effervescent, even. Ruse is more concern with sounding clever than being clever, which is not a knock so much as a signature of Ritchie’s later work.… Expand

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WellboringSep 1, 2023

Hilarious, a lot of funny moments and starting with a classic Guy Ritchie fast paced dialogue of an opening

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