movie review - Operation Fortune: ruse de guerre

 A perfectly fine way to spend a couple hours.  There isn’t a plot per se. The movie is so disinterested in plot that we don’t even know until well into the movie what our competing bands of thieves are vying for.  But the string of incidents is acted by an excellent cast, all of whom seem to be enjoying the,eves.  Hugh Grant is especially enjoying, channeling Michael Caine, portraying a James Bond villain with the megalomania dialed down to around a 1 on the scale,. You really have to see the performance, as well as Josh Hartnett’s, to understand them.I don’t want to try. The flaw of the movie is that there are too many characters in that in between place of needing either to do more or to br consolidated. Like, what if the Cary Elwes character were a little more Peter Graves in Mission: Impossible and actually part of it, rather than being an M in a movie that already has an M. And that would free up Aubrey Plaza to be the sniper\sharpshooter, which would be a nice gender twist in a genre where the sniper is always always always a man. 


Turkey isn’t often seen in movies released in the US, and if some of the chase scenes were like lots of other seasons the change of location was still welcome.

I wouldn’t go out of my way for this, but of you’re fond of any of the principals, either in the cast or of director Guy Ritchie, you should get your moneys worth.

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