Operation Fortune: Ruse De Guerre (2022)

Average Spy/Caper Film - Operation Fortune: Ruse De Guerre review by GI

Typical comedy caper film from Guy Ritchie but it offers none of his earlier originality and plays like a restrained Michael Bay film. Jason Statham is the nominal lead and does most of the Bournesque fighting but it's Aubrey Plaza and Hugh Grant that lift the film into a more entertaining one than it otherwise would have been. Statham is super agent Orson Fortune, the top operative of a private company that the UK Government (in the guise of Eddie Marsan) hires to do their dirty work. His team includes cynical computer expert Sarah (Plaza) and they are tasked with recovering a gizmo (the films MacGuffin, a very dangerous AI thingamajig) from the bad guys in a deal controlled by sleazy arms dealer Simmonds (Grant, doing a similar thing he did in The Gentlemen). To get to Simmonds they need his favourite movie star, Danny (Josh Hartnett) This cues a lot of 007 style globe trotting, shooting, fighting etc etc and it's all very stereotypical and predictable. It passes the time, has its moments but its average stuff.