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For the past few years, Guy Ritchie and his filmmaking collaborators have alternated between lightweight larks and hefty tales of masculinity. There was the 2019 ensemble crime comedy "The Gentleman," followed by the heavy-duty "Heat" riff "Wrath of Man," which was chased by the globe-trotting spycraft romp "Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre." Swinging back to a more serious register, Ritchie presents his first film grounded in harsh real-world politics, "Guy Ritchie's The Covenant," and it's the best film he's made in years.

In the final rescue fight, Ritchie cannot resist having a cocky American mercenary order a “Spectre Gunship” to demonstrate the blowing-bodies-to-bits superiority of American firepower, a sour gesture.

The film is inspired by the many true, tragic stories of Afghan interpreters who worked with the United States military for more than 20 years, who were promised visas and then left to fend for themselves.

Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant could have been so more than a muscular, overwrought war film.

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