Guy Ritchie Is an Even Better Storyteller on TV Than Movies

Ever since the debut of his crime-themed short film The Hard Case in the mid 1990s, Guy Ritchie has established himself as a completely unique genre filmmaker whose cinematic style added something new to the pulp crime thriller genre. While there was no shortage of low-budget crime films inspired by Pulp Fiction and Goodfellas in the 1990s, Ritchie took familiar archetypes and story beats found in many gangster films and totally revamped them as dark comedies. With their curious pacing, brief instances of dark humor, snappy dialogue, and purposefully convoluted narrative structures, Ritchie’s work on films like Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch established him as a true-crime story maestro in his own right. While larger Hollywood projects connected to major franchises may have swayed his attention, Ritchie proved he was better suited for stories on television with his Netflix series The Gentlemen.