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Glad to see Guy return to form instead of trying more stupid-- er, I mean, "heavy" chess metaphor movies
FOH Mr. Madonna, get back to the guns and double-crosses and shit
Speaking of which, if you want to ask about plot points, you might want to ask someone else, as I was a bit confused as to all of the goings on; nonetheless, things start to make sense as we hurtle toward the conclusion... or maybe I wasn't paying *that* close attention (it's been happening a lot these days)...
Anyway, I thought it was a pretty funny flick; there's a little gay paranoia humor that threatens to become overbearing, but doesn't...
Gerard Butler and Idris Elba (not "Stringer Bell," n*ggas) make a surprisingly affable team... Thandie, while still too skinny for my tastes, was still pretty hot, though I'm not really clear what her purpose was in the grander scheme of things... and I'll pretty much watch Tom Wilkinson in anything these days... son could read a defense department orientation guide and I'd watch him... I thought that Luda and Jeremy Piven were okay in their roles, but again, I don't know if you really needed them in the grander scheme of things...
And another downside to me was that I didn't really feel any sense of "danger," or "jeopardy," even when bad stuff starts to happen to our heroes... the entire exercise just looks and feels like a gang of people getting together and having fun making a goofy "gangster" flick...
So I'm recommending this if you dug all of the stylistic tricks and technical trademarks of previous Guy Richie joints: the whip-pans, the quick-cuts, the variable film speeds within shots, the so-cool-it-hurts soundtrack... all of that is there, and more...
Oh, and there's a nice little "Oh, word?" surprise at the very end... ________________________________________________________________________ <------ Yeah... not gonna happen.
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