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Hiring Guy Ritchie was a gamble on the part of Warner Bros. As of May 2017, Guy Ritchie's highest-rated films on Rotten Tomatoes were Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels (1999) and Snatch (2001). He's made two blockbusters—Sherlock Holmes and its sequel. Ritchie's stylistic mainstays—the timeline-crossing jump-cuts, swift editing, and "edgy" banter—work in gangster flicks. Here, they're distractions.   

Ritchie bombs as often as he succeeds. His Swept Away remake was a disaster. Revolver, a Luc Besson collaboration, did miserably in the United States. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and RocknRolla were modest successes, but nothing to write home about. He has yet to make good on the promise he showed starting out.