The Gentlemen reviewed by Mark Kermode 

My man

David Coleman One of my favourite films of all time. I must've watched it at least 20 times and I love Gleeson, Farrell and Fiennes, in fact the entire cast. I think there's a depth to "In Bruges" and its characters that really touched me. Added to which, it's very funny.

@@pamelaatkinsonscats2873 seesaw gets me every time

Agree. God knows what Simon mayos been doing all this time. - I didn't even know where Bruges was. .... It's in Belgium.

Agreed. Fiennes is on top form in that one, and so is Farrell. Great writing as well.

Bracher T I wonder if he was doing it deliberately. Maybe he has some kind of a beef with Mr Mahogany

Mark's a busy guy, he doesn't have time to keep pronuncing certain names correctly.

Yes I noticed this. 😂

@@darkbarker it's just a it of fun. He called Orlando Bloom 'Orloondo Bland' 😂

Jay Foreman and Mark Cooper were right. Southerners do say mahogany at least twice a day.

100%. He doesn’t seem to be able to separate his personal dislike for GR films from his professional reviews. He needs to at least be aware of it in his line of work.

In the first minute of this video he says he liked the Sherlock films and Alladin was alright...

How was colin in the movie?

Francis Drake He plays a gym owner called coach and has some of the best comical lines.

@@jasongoodacre No he phucing doesnt!

@@fradrake11 Brilliant.

Jason Goodacre how can I have my brain switched off if is super confusing and muddled in the first act.

@@OtisF96 Understand your irony but I'd change the ironic quotation marks and say -the problem is that Mark likes "good" films. One should be able to appreciate Kubrick or Ritchie, for the main thing ;enjoyable film-making.

Renata Trigulova, I completely agree. Once your protagonists stop being the underdog, they’re just engaging in thuggery to keep their illegal businesses afloat. And you stop rooting for them very quickly. Also, I can’t bear the whole faux-feminist, “look at our tough, smoking swearing ladies” shtick. They’re all just nasty arseholes.

The Sopranos did this expertly. The characters were obviously terrible but they were charming and funny so you forgot it. By the end they left you in no doubt our favourite characters were at their core evil psychopaths and they had us fooled too.

@@kevinm2832 I feel differently about the final seasons of the sopranos where to me some of the worst turns of some characters felt very artificial and at odds from who they were at the start of the show. And even in the first season you immediatly had a sense that these people would do anyone harm if there was 5 dollars in it. By the end Tony mainly just kept making sadistic decisions that I felt were off

@@ultra7021 I always enjoyed Silvio and the moment he dragged Adriana from the car was 💔 to me lol.

@@vanessaheine8093 To me they showed their true colors with the character of Grace who had a remarkable life's journey: from an intelligent and principled spy to some young toff's trophy wife and eventually to a gangster's trophy wife, killed off to make the said gangster's life seem more tragic. It's even more appalling if your think that the actress, Annabelle Wallis, died on screen at least 4 (!!!) times in different movies/tv shows for that same purpose...

Ryan Butterworth the shame is that Ritchie’s best is only just good enough

Ryan Butterworth, I agree with you. Loved it. As did my buddy I went with.

People... Star Wars...Toxic fans.....can't enjoy anything anymore etc.

Yes, and since the time he wrote Lock Stock, and Snatch he is the guy that brought you..... Revolver "a true trash fire"

@@dogshitballs it's just close minded to think of a director like "he made THAT movie", since directors learn from their mistakes and improve on them and The Gentlemen is a perfect example of that.

@@chronickiwi7747 But if he didn't like the movie, how can he come to the conclusion that he learned from his mistakes?

How is this idiot the most renowned film critic in the UK??!!

@@speaklikeanative So the most renowned critic has to agree with everything you believe?

Agreed. Well, partly. I did enjoy those, and Man From Uncle, but not *over* L,S, & 2SB, nor Snatch. I used to love these guys, and while still listen from time to time, not as much. I find them both, especially Mayo, to be just elitist prigs.

gggjmmm no. It's not that just that we disagree. I often disagree with many of my favorite film reviewers. It's more the *way* these guys disagree: sniffy, elitist, snobby. I used to love listening to them. Now, I just find them insufferable snobs. Especially Mayo, but Kermode also.

I could tell you why he thinks that, but you can watch a video essay on Sherlock 2, and come back to me on it, it was a brilliant puzzle film.

That's good enough for me

Snatch meets rocknrolla awesome film one of his best

Totally agree

Agreed. Great film.

Lol don't compare lock stock and snatch with the gentleman, the gentleman is like guy Ritchie trying to impersonate his old style of gangster film and failing terribly.

Wow , you should do reviews for a career

I just don’t know why people feel the need to brag about such minor things.

@@jamesg8175 Well, if you can count on pretty much always disagreeing with him, then you CAN value his opinion. If he hates a movie, then you'll probably like it. Job done :D Clearly this wasn't a movie for him, and it's his loss really.

@@rebeccaschade3987 but it's not his loss is it

Have you seen Lucky number Slevin. Did not get good reviews at the tume but its a great film.

@@Northstar-Media brilliant flick the twists are brilliant

@@vooveks only have to see one

@@vooveks At least 23, I'm not entirely sure - I can't count once I run out of fingers and toes

@@vooveks you sound as though you actually have a problem with that. It's not as if he's claiming 'In Bruges' is the greatest film ever, only that it's the one he enjoys the most.

Exactly what I said to my wife when we watched it.

Just what I was thinking!!!

I love Kermode but he really doesnt like Guy Richie especially the brit gangster stuff so hes usually negative about them. Films are still opinion a lot of the time at the end of the day

@Ice Hockey is Pretty Pretty Good fair point... 😂

Lorna Ginette Harrison Zack Snyder & Danny Dyer are also barred

@Chris Darby Ironically. 🙂

It’s awesome, dont listen to this guy

I totally agree, even though I dislike films about criminals just like Kermode. I couldn't watch more than 20 mins of Irish Man (I haven't given up yet). But Ritchie always makes his films very entertaining, graceful and lighthearted, they don't feel turgid or over the top. Camera work and editing don't evoke ADHD in you even though they are fast-paced. There's always great music, colours, acting. I even liked King Arthur. That film ended up a slight mess thanks to studio interference, and it's really easy to see (simply if you know about release date delays). And I'm saying this not as his fan (I haven't watched Aladin and never will), I like Villeneuve, Fincher, etc. much more. But Guy Ritchie really makes gangster movies that are actually watchable. I like Kermode too, but here he makes very unnecessary generalisations - that Hugh Grant is embodying all of the press, that the protagonists are embodying ALL the criminals, but why? They weren't even supercorny archetypal types, they were original fictional characters. Yes, Mahogany was compared to a lion and mumbled all those philosophical lines, but they were simply making fun of that Lincoln ad and True Detective stuff, and it's not hard to see.

not WOKE enough for Mark

bodfishhh it was so goddamn confusing. I had no idea what was going on for the first 40 minutes cause of all the flashbacks and flash forwards and then they’re talking about it as if it’s a script and it’s not real but then it is real and then characters make dumb decisions and aren’t as smart as the movie props them up to be. 3/5 being generous, the characters were likeable at least.

@@Ira__L You say you dislike films about criminals but some of the greatest films ever made are about criminals...

Same here. Loved it. Laughed through so much of it, I have to see it again.

@@davidjames579 Oz and The Sopranos are two of the best written TV shows of all time. Most of the characters are thoroughly unlikeable. The dialogue and storylines are so fully realised, you get lost in these characters worlds for a brief time and forget that they're all out murdering psychopaths

@@GG57 In Oz though some of the characters had at least some redeemable qualities - Beecher. Kareem Said, or because of what they endured you actually wanted some peace for them - e.g. Alvarez.

@@Nathan-gd7xq what ? I just think the film is really gd and Colin farrell played a big part in that.

grewalb26 oh do share 😂

@Chris Darby ...or roll-mops. I love roll-mops, me. They don't half pen & ink, though.

Peter Reed while I did like those earlier movies, I totally agree with you. And this one shows a filmmaker way more mature and accomplished now than he was then.

I loved that film great chemistry amongst the cast

I loved that film.

Jan 1st

Its corny and stupid portrayals of “english gangsters” was not even close to reality nor were they anywhere as interesting as those from his past films .

@@humanoid6255 Doesnt need to be reality. It's a comedy and as with any comedy, everything is exaggerated.

Allan Snackbar nah mark nailed it perfectly

Elliot Gillies nah

Natsu Dragion77 yee 😆

I enjoyed the hell out of that film

That's Me agreed!

Mark is wrong more than he's right

How can someone’s opinion be wrong , we should all agree to disagree.

@@rowanc88 She played it at The Old Vic years before Downton Abbey, she was great in the role.

I actually knew about her appearing in Pygmalion(Peter Hall’s production on stage), but her accent in this film just made me think of it; and yes, I know she has a slight Eastuary twang to her accent in real life (being from Essex and her mother from the East End).

alphabetaxenonzzzcat I had only seen her a bit in Downton and was surprised in an interview haha Not seen Pygmalion or My Fair Lady (only clips) but would like to see her in it :)

being escapist nonsense doesn't absolve a film of needing to be good also if you've ever heard guy Ritchie talk about the "symbolism" in revolver you'd know that he doesn't see his films that way, and thinks himself a lot cleverer than he actually is

@@vvvictoriav5958 😂😂😂😴

@@vvvictoriav5958 revolver didn't work for me, but I'm probably missing something.....or it's just sh2t

Deliberately. It's a running joke on the show whenever Mcconaughey is a topic. He also regularly refers to Hugh Jackman as "Huge Action".

@@bokehintheussr5033 McGHEEEEE