Mickey Pearson is an American expat who's quietly built a marijuana empire inside the crumbling stately homes of the English aristocracy. When he decides to cash out, every rival, Russian oligarch, and tabloid stringer in London smells an opening. Guy Ritchie's return to his Cockney-crime comfort zone is played out like a dinner-table anecdote by Hugh Grant's sleazy journalist — a storytelling device that lets Ritchie indulge every switchback and verbal pyrotechnic he knows.
