The deal : prisoners of the desert
After a relaxing break with the anecdote Operation Fortuna: war ployGuy Ritchie is already back The deal. A project also lacking a cinematic release in France and which marks the British director’s first foray into war film, a genre in which the London gangster specialist was not exactly expected. For this feature film, he puts aside the humor of Hurried AND The Gentlemen find the unshakeable and amazing first degree ofAn angry man.
As for the latter, Guy Ritchie reveals with The deal a story divided into three parts. In the first, Sergeant John Kinley (Jake Gyllenhaal) loses one of his men and an Afghan translator in a bomb attack. Soon after, at his base, she meets her new interpreter, Ahmed Abdullah (Dar Salim). Finding that he often ignores her orders from him, the US military doesn’t trust him.
However, Ahmed’s instincts are of great help to John and his men. But when the group is betrayed by one of his contacts and the interpreter understands that the Taliban are about to attack them, unfortunately it is already too late … To have a chance to survive and to extricate themselves from a desert controlled by their enemiesthe soldiers realize that they absolutely must trust their new recruit.
effective survival
Difficult for Guy Ritchie to be original with this introduction marked by a tense relationship between two men forced to collaborate, violent attacks and the announcement of a frantic hunt in the mountains. The deal it actually comes later Minesweeper, The kingdom OR Blood and tears, all of which deal with similar themes and situations. But once the extremely classic set-up is over, Guy Ritchie finally seems to take an interest in his characters and abandons the mechanical scenes when they find themselves in a real quagmire.
The feature film then turns into story of self-sacrifice in which Ahmed becomes central, while Kinley takes a back seat. It is during this part that the director seems most inspired, filming the attack on a shack in the middle of the desert with brutality and efficiency, before concentrating on the impressive combativeness of the performer. If these scenes are the most successful, it is also because the notions of mutual aid, solidarity and sacrifice pass without the slightest dialogue and above all through the staging, The deal for example, not falling into speeches dripping with courage and fraternity as he does mounted soldiers.
The Guy Ritchie of maturity?
Guy Ritchie calls composer Christopher Benstead again, who signs a serious new score in line with that ofAn angry man. A solemn theme that constantly reminds the viewer that everything is very serious here and that the company’s goal is that pay tribute to Afghan interpreters, hundreds of whom have been killed by the Taliban for helping the US military. A commendable intention but one that the director expresses with his usual lack of subtlety, especially during a finale in which Uncle Sam’s mercenaries wreak havoc and decimate their enemies by the dozen without batting an eye.
The deal nonetheless it stands out as one of his most stunning films as Guy Ritchie is inhabited by his subject, a thousand leagues from those he is used to dealing with. He also manages more often than not to focus on the essentials: survival and the friendship that arises in adversity. Avoiding the interminable patriotic dialogues, unfortunately the director can’t help but press heavily on everything else: the pain, the combativeness, the talent of the two characters in planting bullets in each other’s heads when their assailants aim aside or even the sense of duty and the prohibition against abandoning a comrade in arms. Despite all his efforts to establish himself as a subtle, restrained and sensitive director, the hard effects of him unfortunately continue to take over.
The deal East available on Prime Video.
Source: Cine Serie
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