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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Richard Roeper

‘Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre’ can’t be taken seriously, or humorously

Jason Statham (left) stars in “Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre” as an operative working with a movie star (Josh Hartnett) and a hacker (Aubrey Plaza). (Lionsgate)

You never know what you’re going to get with the recently prolific and always flashy Guy Ritchie these days, whether it’s the audacious and cool live-action “Aladdin” or the star-studded and fantastically entertaining action crime comedy “The Gentlemen” or the ho-hum heist film “Wrath of Man.” Ritchie’s films are almost always going to be stylistically adventurous and filled with colorful, wisecracking characters. The question is, will there be an actual movie of some substance beneath all the high-end gloss?

This time around: not quite.

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