Opinion | Noah Berlatsky: Guy Ritchie's new film with Jason Statham is missing everything you love about them. - NBCNewsTHINK
Noah Berlatsky, cultural critic
These days, even the"James Bond" films try to leaven their inherited toxic masculinity with self-awareness and a competent female character or two; Eva Green and Judi Dench get to steal the occasional scene from Daniel Craig even if they don’t get the marquee. Guy Ritchie’s “Wrath of Man,” though, is wearisomely true to its title: Male anger is what it offers, and male anger — in all its predictably tedious humorlessness — is all it is interested in providing.
His irreverence can irritate some viewers — his"King Arthur" movie, for instance, bombed. But at least in a Guy Ritchie movie, you’re never bored.Unless, alas, that Guy Ritchie movie is “Wrath of Man.” The director’s latest film, based on the 2004 French heist drama “Cash Truck,” is another collaboration with his favorite leading man, Jason Statham, and a low point in both of their careers. There are no split screens; there are no giant snakes.
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