Okay the first minutes of the film and McConaughey gets shot in the back... then I don't see any mention of days or weeks earlier... but I'm assuming the film has jumped backwards... and then at the end McConaughey is alive... What the hell am I missing? Did he not get killed in the first minutes or not.
shareThe scene happens later in the movie. The movie eventually gets back to the scene. Most of the movie is just getting back to that scene and then picking up from there. I think the last 15-20 minutes of the movie happens after that opening scene.
Spoilers
He gets saved by Charlie Hunnam/Ray. The blood we see is the guy that is there to shoot McConaughey.
The scene actually threw me off at first though when I saw it since I read spoilers before seeing the movie. I mainly read who lived and died and not exactly a scene-by-scene spoiler summary (whatever you want to call it). So I knew going in that McConaughey lives, but then I saw that opening scene and I was all like: "whoa, whoa, whoa, hold the f**k on!!!" I then started coming up with all these different scenarios of what is really going on. My first thought was that someone saves him and he wasn't the one that got shot and the one the blood belonged to, and it was the henchman that was there to kill him and was standing behind him that ended up being the one that got shot. I ended up being right. I knew there had to be something misleading about that opening scene or there was more to it. What the opening scene is is just an attention grabber to get the viewer interested. Something like that. But the movie eventually gets back to the scene and we see what really happens.
Fair enough.. I wish these movies that jump around would at least fucking tell you. And when they do these person dies at the opening you expect it to be legit like in American Beauty where if you kill the person off so be it, but the doing it only to have it being a fake out to be discovered much later is annoying as hell, ranks right up there with the horror show where at the end it was all a dream.
shareThe Gentlemen is the reason why I don't mind spoilers and will even go look them up, and it's the movie that I don't get why people make such a big deal about spoilers and having a movie ruined for them. After seeing that opening scene and knowing McConaughey lives, the movie had my attention the whole time and I was impatiently waiting to get back to that scene to see what was really going on. If I hadn't read spoilers, I probably would've said "f**k this movie" and got up and left. Or I would've just sat there pissed at the movie and maybe bored because I wouldn't care what was going on, although I am a "smart" moviegoer/viewer and have seen plenty of movies to know that it may be a misleading opening scene. Plus I am even a writer too, so the writer in me could've figured out stuff. But I probably still wouldn't have cared since there was that possibility that we were watching what led up to McConaughey's death and then the aftermath of it. But I knew he lived, so I just had to see what the explanation was for that opening scene and on the way to getting back to that opening scene, and also to just be patient. And while I was waiting for things to get back to that opening scene, I was enjoying everything happening onscreen, and even more than what I would've if I hadn't read who lived and died. But this is also a Guy Ritchie directed/written movie too. He seems to not kill off his protagonists or any of the major actors or major characters. Only characters or major actors that ever really die in his movies are the villains. That's a little surprising too with the type of lives these characters live. You'd think some of the good guys would die, but no.
shareIf you just watch the movie is pretty clear and explanatory ...
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