Forget The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, Guy Ritchie’s $115 Million Hit Is on Netflix Now

Summary:

• Guy Ritchie ’s brand new action movie The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare hasn’t been that much of a box office success since its theatrical release back in April, but the director’s big hit from 2020 that just arrived on Netflix may make it up to his latest film.
• The movie starring Matthew McConaughey and Charlie Hunnam revolves around a weed empire owner who gets into a lot of trouble while trying to sell his pricey business.
• The film eventually got to be a critical and commercial success that led to expanding the universe by Netflix’s series that was released earlier this year.

While Guy Ritchie’s brand new movie The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare isn’t doing as well as everybody wished in the box office, a real lifesaver has already come to the director’s rescue.

Four years after its theatrical release, Ritchie’s action comedy hit The Gentlemen is finally available to stream on Netflix — and the timing for the movie’s arrival couldn’t be better.

Having a star-studded cast that includes Matthew McConaughey, Charlie Hunnam, Henry Golding, Hugh Grant, Michelle Dockery, Jeremy Strong and many others, the film follows American cannabis wholesaler Michael ‘Mickey’ Pearson who seeks to sell his weed empire so that he and his wife Rosalind, portrayed by Michelle Dockery, could spend the rest of their life carelessly.

Played by constantly chill Matthew McConaughey who hasn’t been new to roles of shady businessmen for quite a long time, Mickey hopes to get over the whole selling process as soon as possible, but things go in a wrong direction making him maneuver in between numerous blackmail attempts and schemes that could ruin everything he’s built so far.

Though The Gentlemen wasn’t awarded with raving critical acclaim, it still got credit from the professionals and especially from the audience that gave the movie a score of 84% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The film also had quite a success in the box office garnering around $115 million against the initial budget of only $22 million eventually leading Guy Ritchie to coming up with an idea of turning it all into a series. The spin-off of the same name starring Theo James, Kaya Scodelario and Daniel Ings landed on Netflix earlier this year.

The 2020 original movie’s arrival on the platform has indeed a perfect timing given that Guy Ritchie’s latest work led by Henry Cavill isn’t having its best time in the box office right now.

On top of that, fans who previously enjoyed the series of the same name would definitely be tempted by the idea to turn to the show’s roots given that The Gentlemen from 2024 shares the same cinematic universe, costume style and overall vibe with The Gentlemen from 2020.