With the Bond franchise taking itself rather seriously these days, and Bond himself missing in action, there’s a vacancy for a wise-cracking, globe-trotting secret agent with a taste for the high life. And Jason Statham hereby throws his hat into the ring. In this flashy but hollow action adventure from Guy Ritchie, Statham plays Orson Fortune, a spy with a formidable skill set and an expense account to match. Orson’s team, including minxy tech genius Sarah (Aubrey Plaza), is employed by the British government to investigate the theft of a mystery item, and to secure it – whatever it is – before it hits the black market. Brokering the deal is shady arms trader Greg Simmonds (Hugh Grant).
And here’s the problem for Statham’s super spy: for all the Ukrainian gangsters he nuts and helicopters he pilots, Orson Fortune is just not particularly interesting or fleshed out as a character. Plaza and Grant, meanwhile, steal every scene they touch.
On Amazon Prime Video
