There are not one but two aspects, or reasons why a potential audience will come to see Agent Fortune: The Great Hoax. Jason Stathamthe actor of the carrierthe evil of Fast & Furious, stars in it. and she directs it Guy Richiea filmmaker who knows how to combine smooth storytelling with action, touches of comedy and thriller or spy film.
It’s loaded with all of that Agent Fortune, with Statham as Special Agent Orson Fortune, a guy who works for the British MI6 and gets paid a pretty penny for every mission he’s assigned. Who is claustrophobic, so his transfers are in private jets, and he orders bottles of wine from old and very expensive vintages.
As in many action-comedy films, here are elite spies to save the world from a catastrophe, even if you don’t know which one at first. “Someone” has stolen “something” from a secret laboratory and is trying to sell it for ten billion dollars. The British government finds out and sends its best teams to investigate, find and eventually arrest the thief and the potential buyer(s) interested in that “something”.
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Then Nathan Jasmine (Cary Elwes, from the first The game of fearsome episodes of stranger things) contacts Fortune and puts him in charge of a team of undercover agents – hence the deception of the title in Latin America – who will try to prevent that something from arriving through a multimillionaire intermediary (Hugh Grant).
To do this, they reluctantly recruit a Hollywood action star (Josh Hartnett), of whom Greg Simmonds, Grant’s character, is an absolute fan. And together with Sarah Fidel (Aubrey Plaza, from The White Lotusand it would work Megalopolisby Francis Ford Coppola), who is tasked with hacking absolutely everything, and another agent, JJ (Bugzy Malone, who, like Grant, was also in The Knights: class criminalsby Ritchie) will spend almost two hours – it stays because things happen in the credits – lying, chasing, running and killing.
The rest, well, is a Guy Ritchie film in the vein of his productions of action, suspense and humor, of Games, traps and two smoking guns (which already had Statham in the cast) a snatch, pigs and diamondspassing through rock n roll Y The Knights: class criminalswith which it has more in common.
Madonna’s ex-husband’s ability to string together fast-paced action sequences, now with an equally high production cost, is remarkable at various points in the film. E, co-writer with Ivan Atkinson and Marn Davies, the same as The Knights…it gave Statham, that same-faced but unquestionably charismatic action anti-hero, lines of dialogue that the martial artist and former model knows how to exploit.
“Agent Fortune: The Big Hoax”
Good
Action. USA, 2022. Original title: “Operation Fortuna: Ruse de guerre”. 114′, SA 13. Of: Guy Ricchi. With: Jason Statham, Aubrey Plaza, Hugh Grant, Josh Hartnett, Cary Elwes. Rooms: Hoyts Abasto, Cinépolis Recoleta. Belgrano showcase.
Source: Clarin
