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The Gentlemen (2019)
Upon Re-Watch in 2024...Boring?
I'm not sure if it's just me that's changed since 2019, or the entire filmic landscape, but...re-watching this in preparation for the newly-released Netflix series, I got about halfway through - an hour in - and I absolutely had to stop.
I'd realized that up to and including that point in the movie, I had barely laughed, had felt ZERO tension in ANY of the preceding scenes, and I was actively, currently terribly bored with everything in the movie.
The Bad Rap boys breaking into the grow house was unbelievably boring.
The entire set-up and subsequent chase scenes while retrieving the Lord's recalcitrant daughter were logistically dumb and terribly laughable, respectively.
(Aside: Charlie Hunnam should have been allowed his native accent; it would have affected the story not at all. But that harrowing attempt at a British accent certainly did.)
Mind: Hugh Grant was chewing the scenery wonderfully; the cinematography was still on point; the speedy banter was (mostly still) there...but everything else that made a Guy Ritchie joint a Guy Ritchie joint...seemed to have been neutered from the film.
I think I remember enjoying it, more or less, upon release, but hadn't thought about it since.
Has anyone else recently rewatched this? Am I insane?