Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre is a 2023 spy action comedy film directed by Guy Ritchie. It stars Jason Statham, Aubrey Plaza, Josh Hartnett, Cary Elwes, Bugzy Malone, and Hugh Grant. The film is about a spy, Orson Fortune (Statham), who must retrieve a stolen high-tech device before an arms dealer (Grant) can sell it to the highest bidder.
Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre was theatrically released in international territories on January 4, 2023, and theatrically released in the United States on March 3. It was released digitally on Amazon Prime Video in the United Kingdom on April 7. Malone plays the character J.J. Davies, a new recruit to Orson Fortune's team of spies. Funnily, they share the same last name, "Davies".
Cast[]
- Jason Statham as Orson Fortune
- Aubrey Plaza as Sarah Fidel
- Cary Elwes as Nathan Jasmine
- Hugh Grant as Greg Simmonds
- Josh Hartnett as Danny Francesco
- Bugzy Malone as J.J. Davies
- Eddie Marsan as Knighton
- Peter Ferdinando as Mike
- Lourdes Faberes as Emilia
- Max Beesley as Ben Harris
- Eugenia Kuzmina as Marcia
- Bestemsu Özdemir as Vivienne
- Kaan Urgancıoğlu as Casa
- Tom Rosenthal as Trent
Critical reception[]
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 51% based on 151 reviews, with an average rating of 5.6/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Operation Fortune can't keep up with the best modern action movies, but it's got just enough firepower for viewers seeking a few undemanding thrills". On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 51 out of 100, based on 35 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale.
Benjamin Lee of The Guardian wrote, "It's slick in one moment and a little too scrappy the next but Ritchie's puppyish insistence that you have as much as fun as his stars is hard to resist".[1] Sheila O'Malley, contributing to Roger Ebert, believed it was missing "eccentricity", where the interaction between characters lacks humour or conflict.[2]
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References[]
- ↑ Lee, Benjamin (3 March 2023). "Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre Review – Guy Ritchie's Big, Breezy Spy Caper". The Guardian.
- ↑ O'Malley, Sheila (March 3, 2023). "Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre". Roger Ebert.
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