Guy Ritchie is an English director who first broke onto the
scene in the ‘90s with a pair of hard bitten but quirkily delightful crime
comedies called Lock, Stock, and Two
Smoking Barrels and Snatch. His style was very much in the wake of
Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez coming into cinema and infusing it with
professional level panache wedded to a passionate love for grindhouse
schlock. Since then, however,
Ritchie’s kind of fallen into the background, spending nearly a decade doing
nothing but being Madonna’s husband.
Even his 2008 return to form with RocknRolla
went virtually unnoticed and unimpactful on his future career. Since then Ritchie has successfully
followed the route of a lot floundering auteurs such as Bryan Singer or Kenneth
Branagh by transitioning into a sought after blockbuster director.
