The fifth collaboration between Guy Ritchie and Jason Statham has the right doses of suspense, comedy and action, as well as a setting in various parts of the world and many luxurious cars and mansions. The formula for success.
1. A luxury team
2. The Ritchie Seal
“Agent Fortune: The Great Hoax” is a film that invites us to enjoy a light experience with no pretensions other than to entertain and have a good time. It is not a war film, nor a political thriller, much less a solemn and serious work.
It laughs at spy movies and has a very good cast headed by Jason Statham and as an added value, Hugh Grant, a very original villain. You have to enjoy it wherever you look.
In this new installment by English director Guy Ritchie, Statham is special agent Orson Fortune, a guy who works for the British MI6 and who gets paid a fortune for each mission he is assigned. He is claustrophobic, so his transfers are in private jets and he orders bottles of wine from old and very expensive vintages.
As in many action comedy movies, there are elite spies who are about to save the world from a catastrophe, although it is not known at first what the “something” is that “Someone” stole from a secret laboratory and is looking to sell it for ten billion dollars.
A luxury team
When the British government finds out, it sends its best men to investigate, find and, if possible, apprehend the thief and the potential buyer(s) interested in that “something” that, after all, it is never very clear what it is.
One of these teams is led by Nathan Jasmine (Cary Elwes, who recruits Fortune as the leader of the undercover group to catch the middleman, an eccentric billionaire, Greg Simmonds (Hugh Grant).
To accomplish the mission, they blackmail an action movie star (Josh Hartnett), who Simmonds is an absolute fan of. The team is completed by Sarah Fidel (Aubrey Plaza), who is in charge of hacking absolutely everything; and the agent, JJ (Bugzy Malone), who is multitasking.
It should be noted that the group is well established and it shows that they empathized perfectly, but the most interesting thing is that they had fun working together.
Ritchie’s Seal
Watching the film makes it clear that when Statham acts under Ritchie’s direction he usually shines and this is no exception. Although we are talking about an entertaining production, with a simple script, Madonna’s ex-husband does not disappoint us with lots of action, good humor between black and gray, solid actors and dazzling sets.
For fans, there are reminiscences of Ritchie’s hallmark movies: “Games, Traps and Two Smoking Guns,” “Snatch,” “The Knights” and “RocknRolla,” though “Agent Fortune: The Great Hoax” is pretty more conventional than those previously named.” In addition, it is appreciated that it is not an extra-long tape in duration because it already seems customary to make deliveries close to 3 hours
