'The Gentlemen' Review: Lock, Stock and Way Too Stale For Its Own Good

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'The Gentlemen' Review: Lock, Stock and Way Too Stale For Its Own Good
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'The Gentlemen' finds director Guy Ritchie returning to 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels' territory—and mostly brings the stock. Our review

that figure into the mix, never mind how. Luckily, Pearson is the type of alpha criminal who thinks three moves ahead. When that doesn’t work, he just taps into his vicious side. “There’s only one rule in the jungle,” he snarls to a fellow no-goodnik, brandishing a gun in his face. “When the lion’s hungry, he eats!”

That king-of-the-jungle metaphor gets trotted out a lot over the course of this twisty, turn-filled exercise in Nineties genre nostalgia. If that’s Ritchie’s way of telling every bright young imitator with a camera and a street-slang dictionary over the last 20 years that the original Britpop-gangster geezer is back, then fine, yes, ok, we get it.

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