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Just home from seeing the late showing of The Gentlemen. Really great and clever movie. Will go see it again in the cinema. I never see the same movie twice in the cinema. I generally like Guy Ritchie films. This one may be his best. Hugh Grant will be a Best Actor nominee for the 2021 film and media awards circuit. I don't particularly appreciate Matthew McConaughey or Hugh Grant as actors, though they have done some decent work. In this film Grant just makes his character seem authentic. A big departure from most of his previous roles of Hugh Grant playing Hugh Grant with a different name. I call it the John Wayne style. Same persona in every film. But in this, he is truly a different character than his real life persona. McConaughey's character, though reasonably well acted, is played in his own Lincoln SUV commercial style with a lot of violent behavior. A la John Wayne style. Great supporting performances by Colin Firth as a hoodlum gym owner, and Michelle Dockery (Downton Abbey), whom plays McConaughey's strong, sharp witted wife, added great texture to the film, Charlie Hunnam (McConaughey's #1) is the perfect non-plussed foil to Grant's character. A lot of the film was their thrust-and-parry dialog, in which Grant carries Hunnam along, I think by Ritchie's design. It is entertaining throughout. That Ritchie wrote the screenplay and directed the film means the nuance and detail of the dialog and pace is exactly as he envisioned it. Tarantino does the same with his films. They also run the editing to their satisfaction and not the producers. I like that. If you like clever films with rich characters and truly excellent acting wrapped inside a good story, then you will like The Gentlemen as I do. Five stars fer shure.