Guy Ritchie

Runner-up is a long scene of Green debating himself in an elevator. The movie's hit-to-miss ratio is hardly Olympic caliber, but Mr. Ritchie deserves credit for chutzpah. After his third film, "Swept Away" - a putrid remake of the Lina...

In this article: Revolver, Mark Strong, Ray Liotta, Jason Statham, and Vincent Pastore

"As far as I'm aware." Ritchie and Madonna drew jeers from critics for "Swept Away," an update of Lina Wertmuller's acclaimed saga about a pampered society dame stuck on an island with a communist sailor. "Swept Away" barely saw the...

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...back. So while Guy Ritchie took it on the chin... and the nose... and the noggin... and right square in the nuts for remaking Lina Wertmuller's SWEPT AWAY with his kinda famous wife (she sings), he was never down and out for good. Even...

In this article: Gerard Butler, Mark Strong, Jeremy Piven, Zeitgeist, Sherlock Holmes, RocknRolla, Lina Wertmuller, and U.K.

...fast. I'm not sure if Ritchie has tampered with Wertmuller's ending; it certainly feels cut off, truncated, as if a really bad idea were being abandoned by everybody on the theory that you should never throw good money after bad. And so ....

In this article: Madonna, Giancarlo Giannini, Swept Away, Lina Wertmuller, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Mariangela Melato, Come on-a My House, J.M. Barrie, and Jeanne Tripplehorn

...never have to buy himself a pint at a pub as long as he lives. Then Madonna sank her fangs into Ritchie, drained him of his seed, and his career instantly disintegrated. The film that catapulted Ritchie to infamy was Swept Away, a remake...

In this article: Madonna, Swept Away, Christian Bale, Britney Spears, The A.V. Club, Snoop Dogg, Tom Cruise, and Candy

...here in New York, but that didn't help, either. "Revolver" died on the vine. Guy Ritchie may be a lovely person, for all I know, but a great director he is not. His list of flops includes the spectacular disaster "Swept Away," a remake of...

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