With a gift for creating stylistic action sequences, director Guy Ritchie tends to make fairly entertaining but frequently forgettable movies.
There are exceptions, of course — his strong 1998 debut, “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels,” 2009’s largely loved “Sherlock Holmes” and others — but it’s hard to recall much about recent even efforts such as “The Gentlemen” (2019) and “Wrath of Man” (2021).
Ritchie clearly wants you to be impacted by — and to remember — his latest effort, which is also his first war film. You know it’s serious because we’re apparently supposed to call it not “The Covenant” but instead “Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant.”
