Writer-director Guy Ritchie was one of the main contributors to making Jason Statham a movie star, and their collaboration has continued for decades.
Guy Ritchie and Jason Statham have collaborated on some great movies — and some not-so-great ones. Ritchie is the director who gave Statham his break in the film industry and, effectively, he's the one who made him a movie star. Their collaboration began with the double whammy of crime comedies Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch.
In combining Ritchie’s usual wisecracking mobsters with a Buddhist philosophy, Revolver becomes too muddled and incoherent for its own good. Ritchie’s Revolver script, co-written with Léon: The Professional director Luc Besson, doesn’t use its clever narrative devices as organically as Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels or Snatch; it gets too complex to allow room for the action scenes and comic interplay that made those movies so much fun.
Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre isn’t as gritty as a lot of Guy Ritchie’s movies. After a run of visceral, hard-hitting thrillers, this offbeat spy caper marked a refreshing change of pace for the actor-director pairing. Statham carries the movie with effortless charisma, offering his own take on the 007 archetype with Sean Connery’s suaveness and Roger Moore’s tongue-in-cheek sense of humor.
2 Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels Guy Ritchie’s feature-length directorial debut, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, got his career off to a terrific start. Lock, Stock’s darkly comedic crime saga kicks off with a mafia poker game that goes horribly wrong, after which a low-level crook in way over his head has just a week to pay a powerful local mobster the half a million pounds he owes him. The movie's 75% score on Rotten Tomatoes and its 8.
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