Special agent Orson Fortune and his team of operatives recruit one of Hollywood's biggest movie stars to help them on an undercover mission when the sale of a deadly new weapons technology threatens to disrupt the world order.
Jason Statham
Orson Fortune
Aubrey Plaza
Sarah Fidel
Josh Hartnett
Danny Franscesco
Hugh Grant
Greg Simmonds
Cary Elwes
Nathan Jasmine
Bugzy Malone
JJ Davies
Peter Ferdinando
Mike
Eddie Marsan
Norman
Lourdes Faberes
Emilia
Max Beesley
Ben Harris
Sam Douglas
Saul Goldstein
Aksel Üstün
Yatom
Oliver Maltman
Arnold
Ergun Kuyucu
Qasim
Eugenia Kuzmina
Marcia
Vincent Wang
Vincent
Kaan Urgancıoğlu
Casa
Tim Seyfi
Alexander
Nicholas Facey
John
Ian Bartholomew
Bakker
Tom Rosenthal
Trent
Parker Sawyers
Connors
Ayhan Eroğlu
Dimitry
Savaş Ak
Yiv
Matthew Hawksley
BBJ Pilot
Zehra Karadağ
Shop Employee
Oleksandra Zharikova
Natalya
Mishel Lazarenko
Katya
Bensu Uğur
Claudia
Merve Akman
Receptionist
Ozan Ayhan
Sergi
Doğan Barış Yaşar
Villa Guard
Bestemsu Özdemir
Vivienne
Kerim Pehlivan
Petro
Conor MacNeill
Bodhi - IT Specialist
Begzat Ergeshov
Ben's Guard
Çağdaş Agun
Guard 1
Gökhan Demirbaş
Guard 2
Md Numan Ahmed
Artist (uncredited)
Antonio Bustorff
Victor (uncredited)
Joshua Flickema
Mercenary (uncredited)
Amy Jackson
LouLou (uncredited)
Sinan Yildiz
Yacht Waiter 2 (uncredited)
Director, Writer
Guy Ritchie
Writer
Marn Davies
Writer
Ivan Atkinson
March 5, 2023
International intrigue is the name of the game in the latest Action-Caper film from Guy Ritchie and he has delivered a winning mix of action and comedy with” Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre”.
When a secret device known as “The Handle” is taken from a lab by a precision combat team, the U.K. government calls in Nathan (Cary Elwes), to gather a team and retrieve the item even though there is little known about what it is and what it can do. The simple fact that it was taken by force and is supposedly on the market for Ten Billion dollars makes this an item of high value.
Nathan quickly recruits Orson (Jason Statham), away from his vacation and despite his quirks and laundry list of items required for his participation due to said quirks; he is soon brought into the group.
The team is rounded out by young agent JJ (Bugzy Malone), and American computer expert Sarah (Aubrey Plaza), which irritates Orson to no end as he liked the tech he had become used to working with and the fact that they were hired away by a rival firm and Sarah’s give as good as she takes attitude causes him stress.
It is learned that noted arms dealer Greg (Hugh Grant), appears to be brokering the deal and the crew travels from one part of the world to another with a rival team and all manner of dangers around them.
In a race against time, the team brings actor Danny Francesco (Josh Hartnett), into the mix as he is a favorite of Greg’s and the hope is that this will provide the team an introduction and access by having Sarah pose as Danny’s new lady.
What follows is a madcap and comedic adventure with loads of enjoyable characters and situations and enough action to keep things moving and enough laughs to keep audiences smiling.
The cast is great and works very well with one another and it would be great to see them do further adventures with one another as their shared dysfunctions, attitudes, and quirks make them realistic and engaging and a nice change from the indestructible Teflon agents we are so used to seeing in films of this type.
4 stars out of 5