Say this for "Operation Fortune," and say this first: Hugh Grant is having a ball.
The actor, slicker and smarmier than he was in his rom-com heyday, has become a part of director Guy Ritchie's firmament, and his foppish charm has been traded out for a kind of oily, sleek, disreputable sleaziness that somehow suits him at this point in his life. And Ritchie — with whom Grant first teamed on 2015's "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." and again on 2019's "The Gentlemen" — weaponizes his smug sophistication to great effect. You just can't help but be lured into his world.
If only the world of "Operation Fortune" had more to offer.
