Operation Fortune is the new film by Guy Ritchie and stars Jason Statham as Orson Fortune, an operative for British Intelligence who is tasked by his boss (Cary Elwes) to track down a briefcase called The Handle before it falls into the wrong hands but to complete his mission he will need a crack team (Aubrey Plaza and Bugzy Malone) as well as movie star Danny Francesco (Josh Hartnett) who notorious arms dealer Greg Simmonds (Hugh Grant) loves.
Operation Fortune is fine, its nothing horrible but nothing special either and if you are a fan of the Stath then I think you will have a good time, there’s some good action scenes especially a car and helicopter chase in the third act and plenty of twists and turns which Guy Ritchie likes to do in a lot of his movies to keep you interested in what is going on.
As for the Stath well he is fine but nothing he hasn’t done before while Grant, Elwes and Eddie Marsan are good fun in their roles though whenever Josh Hartnett was on screen I couldn’t help but think that his role was clearly intended to be Channing Tatum and when he couldn’t be case or turned the role down (I don’t know any of this for certain) Hartnett took the role and to be fair he is fine and gets some good moments especially in the third act.
But my favourite person in this movie is Aubrey Plaza who is clearly having a great time here playing essentially a grown up Penny from Inspector Gadget but I didn’t care I loved her in this movie and she seems to get the movie she’s in from knowing when to play dumb and knowing when to be smart all while having a big smile on her face as he works her technical skills and I hope between this and Emily the Criminal from last year that better days are ahead for her because she deserves them.
And so that was Operation Fortune and its okay, nothing horrible but fans of the Stath will have a good time, 2 out of 5.
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