Happy Together: Guy Ritchie and Jason Statham Step Back from Their Blockbusters

Jason Statham and Guy Ritchie make blockbusters - but never together! From grim noir to breezy capers to utter nonsense, rockmarooned's latest installment of Happy Together explores their five films together:

, while the cheek is ushered into. In both cases, he tempers his trademark slickness. His camera moves and, especially, cuts are less ostentatious, with long pans and crow’s-eye overheads appearing more often than all-angles editing and cutaway gags, with less staccato dialogue to match.

Hartnett is affably amusing in the not-quite-double role, but the movie’s real meta dimension comes from Aubrey Plaza, as a new computer-hacker collaborator for sought-after contractor Orson Fortune . As with much of her work in disposable big-studio movies, Plaza appears to be giving a committed performance while simultaneously offering a DVD commentary on that performance. She’s not undermining the material so much as selling it as a sleight-of-hand bluff.

The movie also essentially casts Statham as another James Bond figure, rougher-hewn in the Craig tradition while remaining virtually invulnerable in the tradition of so many pre-Craig incarnations and various knock-offs. There’s a running gag about Fortune vexing his handler by spending the government’s money on budget-busting luxuries, and insisting on at least some of them, like extremely expensive wine, as part of a required mental-health program.

This may sound like disengagement, but in an overshared era, where we have access to the least essential thoughts and opinions of so many celebrities and their accompanying brands, there’s something relaxing about a star whose brand is mostly just making movies. Though his techniques have changed, Guy Ritchie still favors attitudinal vibes over straight up action. Working with Statham prepares him for both..

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