‘The Gentlemen’: A crammed but crowd-pleasing crime saga

‘I have to say, I’ve never seen a director’s story notes fill an entire car boot before.’

For more than a decade, he has been “re-imagining” stuff – Sherlock Holmes, King Arthur, The Man From U.N.C.L.E. and Aladdin.

Now, Brit filmmaker Guy Ritchie quite triumphantly returns to the genre that made his rep: the hard-boiled crime drama with a rather high quotient of cool and/or funny bits.