Every Guy Ritchie film ranked, from The Gentlemen and Aladdin to Snatch, and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
- Guy Ritchie burst onto the scene with Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, introducing Jason Statham and Vinnie Jones
- With the British director’s latest film, The Gentlemen, in cinemas, we rank his 11 films from worst to best
With an ear for colourful language, ridiculous nicknames, and a visual flair all his own, Guy Ritchie has been delighting audiences with his crafty crime comedies for more than 20 years.
As his latest star-studded caper, The Gentlemen , arrives in Hong Kong this week, we look back over his career and sort the buyers from the spyers, the needy from the greedy, ranking all 11 of his feature films, from worst to best.
11. Swept Away (2002)
Ritchie’s infamously rocky marriage to Madonna yielded this cinematic shipwreck, in which the Queen of Pop plays the spoilt wife of a pharmaceutical giant, marooned on a desert island with Adriano Giannini’s deckhand.
Madonna was clearly in control, but gamely plays up her bratty persona, while Giannini proves little more than a mouthpiece for Ritchie’s own frustrations and insecurities. Playing out like a ’90s erotic thriller, but without the sex, this remake of the 1974 film starring Giannini’s father Giancarlo is a joyless, woefully executed ordeal.