Guy Ritchie's 123-Minute War Thriller Officially Crowned Prime Video Mega-Hit

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Sign in to your Collider account Guy Ritchie has been as busy this year as almost any year of his career, but things are finally slowing down now that the holiday season is almost here. Ritchie took his talents to Prime Video at the start of the year for Young Sherlock, the Sherlock Holmes prequel series that was dropped as a binge back in March. Prime Video has already picked up the show for a second season, and it’s expected to return to streaming before the end of 2027. Ritchie also returned to the big screen this year with the release of In The Grey, the long-gestating action thriller starring Henry Cavill. The movie managed only $28 million at the global box office, but it is quietly becoming one of streaming’s biggest hits on Starz. Over the years, Guy Ritchie has directed dozens of movies, and with this many entries in his filmography, it’s only natural that some of the films are going to be flops. One of the biggest box office bombs of his career, and also one of the most shocking, came just a few years ago when he worked with Jake Gyllenhaal and The Boys veteran Antony Starr on The Covenant, the war thriller that’s currently streaming on Prime Video. The Covenant cost $55 million to make, meaning the film held a break-even point of over $100 million, but it scored only $21 million during its entire run, making it one of Ritchie’s most notorious flops. Still, the movie has found redemption in the last few years on streaming, and it’s been in the top 10 on Prime Video for over 30 days now. COLLIDERInteractive Impact Action/Quizzes/Your Franchise Collider QuizWhat Action SeriesWould You Thrive In?8 Questions · 4 FranchisesFour franchises. Four completely different ideas of what a hero is: the professional with a code, the family that never leaves anyone behind, the man who does his own stunts, and the guy who simply refuses to go down. Only one of them runs on your particular brand of trouble. Eight questions will tell you which one you would survive.The Four Wick Fast Mission Die Hard Find Your Franchise Question 01PRESENCE 01How does a room know you've walked into it?Every action hero arrives differently. Some of them arrive before they arrive. ASomeone recognizes me, and the temperature in the room drops without a single word being said.BLoudly and warmly. I arrive with my people, and we're already laughing about something.CI'm the one who told everybody where to stand. I walked this room twice before anyone else arrived.DBy accident. I wasn't supposed to be here, and now I'm the only one who can do anything about it. ← BackPick one, then Next Next Question Question 02COMBAT 02It turns physical. What does your fighting look like?Choreography is character. Yours says something about you. AEconomical and devastating. Trained technique, no wasted motion, finished before most people notice it started.BLoud, heavy and weirdly joyful. I'm not elegant, I hit like a truck, and I always have backup.CTo plan, until the plan breaks. Then I improvise at full sprint and refuse to stop moving.DBadly, honestly, and with a lot of swearing. I take more punishment than I deal and I still don't go down. ← BackPick one, then Next Next Question Question 03CREW 03Who is standing beside you when it starts?Some franchises are built on a team. Others are built on one person walking in alone. ANobody. I have contacts, favors and people who owe me, but when it begins I work alone.BEveryone. My people are the entire point, and I'd trade the whole mission for any one of them.CA small hand-picked team I trust completely, and I'd still take the worst part of the job myself.DA voice on the other end of a radio and a building full of people who don't know I exist. ← BackPick one, then Next Next Question Question 04PRESSURE 04It has gone badly wrong. What keeps you upright?Act two exists to find out what you're really made of. AFocus, commitment and sheer will. Grief is fuel if you point it in the right direction.BThe people counting on me. I don't appear to have a limit when it's family on the line.CRefusing to accept the odds. Somebody has to do the impossible part, and it's going to be me.DSpite, mostly. And a growing sense that these people picked the wrong building. ← BackPick one, then Next Next Question Question 05WHEELS 05There's a vehicle. What are you driving, and how?No action franchise has ever survived without a car chase. This one is yours. AA black muscle car I am unreasonably attached to, and I will dismantle an entire empire over it.BSomething impossibly modified, at impossible speed, off an impossible ramp. Physics is a suggestion.CA motorbike at full throttle through a city I memorized last night. And then off a cliff.DA borrowed car, badly, while somebody in the passenger seat politely asks me to slow down. ← BackPick one, then Next Next Question Question 06ORDERS 06How do you feel about the people giving the orders?There is always an institution. There is rarely a good one. AThere are rules and I respect them absolutely, right up until somebody breaks one against me.BI don't take orders. I take care of people, and everything else tends to sort itself out.CI serve the mission, not the memo. If my people are in danger, the orders come second.DThey're in a van outside telling me what I'm doing wrong while I'm the one standing on broken glass. ← BackPick one, then Next Next Question Question 07MOTIVE 07Underneath all of it, what are you doing this for?The stunts are the reason people come. This is the reason they stay. ASomething was taken from me that can't be replaced, and I've been settling that account ever since.BBelonging. I built a family out of people who had nowhere else, and I'll defend it with everything.CThe conviction that if I stop, people pay for it. I don't know how to hand that to anyone else.DI just wanted to get through the holidays with my family. Everything after that was self-defense. ← BackPick one, then Next Next Question Question 08LEGEND 08When the credits roll, what do people say about you?Every franchise is really an argument about what makes someone worth watching. AThat I was a myth people warned each other about in whispers, and that they were right to.BThat I never left anyone behind, the door was always open, and there was always a place at the table.CThat I did the impossible part myself, every single time, and never asked anyone to risk it for me.DThat I was just a guy in the wrong place at the wrong time, who turned out to be very hard to stop. ← BackPick one, then Next Reveal My Franchise Casting Has Been CompletedYour Franchise Is Four action series. One of them is built around exactly the way you handle pressure, people, and a room that has just gone very quiet. Here is where you would survive the trilogy, and probably headline it. 2014-2023John WickJohn Wick to Chapter 4Reasonable to the line. Immovable past it. You are precision with a grudge. You don't posture, you don't escalate, and you don't warn anybody twice. That is exactly why the people who know you are so careful never to be the reason you start.Why You Would Thrive Here The Wick films run on discipline: an underworld with actual etiquette, a hero who honors every rule of it, and a world that unravels the instant someone breaks one against him. You share that quality. You are extraordinarily reasonable right up to the line, and then completely immovable past it. Focus, commitment and sheer will. You'd be the one carrying grief through three sequels and turning it into technique rather than noise. People wouldn't call you dangerous. They'd say your name quietly and let that do the work. The CodeNo Wasted MotionSay It Quietly 2001-2023Fast & FuriousThe Fast and the Furious to Fast XThe mission can wait. The barbecue cannot. You understand the thing the whole franchise is secretly about: the cars are spectacular, but the crew is the point. You collect people, you keep them, and you'd drive through a building for any one of them.Why You Would Thrive Here This series went from street racing to orbit without ever changing its real subject, because loyalty scales and plot doesn't have to. You have the same instinct. You build a family out of whoever turns up, and then you defend it past the point of reason. You'd thrive here because the franchise rewards exactly your strengths: warmth, nerve, an absolute refusal to leave anyone behind, and a relaxed relationship with physics. The mission can wait. The barbecue cannot. Found FamilyRide TogetherPhysics Optional 1996-2025Mission: ImpossibleMission: Impossible to The Final ReckoningYou have never once delegated the cliff. You over-prepare and then take the dangerous part yourself anyway. It looks like control, but it's really responsibility. You have never worked out how to ask somebody else to carry the risk.Why You Would Thrive Here This is the franchise of the plan that collapses on schedule: the team, the mask, the rooftop, and the one person sprinting flat out because sprinting is all that's left. You share that refusal to accept an outcome. Told the odds, you treat them as an administrative error. You'd thrive here because these films reward competence and loyalty in equal measure. The mission matters, but nobody on the team gets left on the wrong side of a door. Some people delegate the cliff. You have never once been that person. Over-PreparedOwn The RiskStill Running 1988-2013Die HardDie Hard to A Good Day to Die HardYou declined to be the person who let it happen. You are not the most trained person in the building, the best equipped, or the one anybody would have picked. You are simply the one still standing at the end, which turns out to be the only qualification that matters.Why You Would Thrive Here Die Hard invented the modern action hero by making him mortal: outnumbered, out-planned, battered, and extremely funny about it. You share that stubbornness. Adversity doesn't make you noble, it makes you sarcastic, and then it makes you unstoppable. You'd thrive here because these films reward improvisation and nerve over preparation, and you've never had the luxury of preparing anyway. You didn't want any of this. You just declined to be the person who let it happen. Wrong PlaceImprovisesStill Standing Closest Matches 1· · ·0% 2· · ·0% 3· · ·0% Retake The QuizCopied A Collider InteractiveCOLLIDERMore quizzes at collider.com What Is ‘Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant’ About? In addition to Jake Gyllenhaal and Antony Starr, Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant also stars Rhys Yates, Sean Sagar, Jason Wong, and Dar Salim, who can also be seen starring opposite Chris Pratt in The Terminal List Season 2. Ritchie wrote and directed the film with help from Ivan Atkinson and Marn Davies on the script. The official synopsis for The Covenant, which holds scores of 82% from critics and a stunning 98% from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes, reads as follows: “Guy Ritchie's The Covenant follows US Army Sergeant John Kinley (Jake Gyllenhaal) and Afghan interpreter Ahmed (Dar Salim). After an ambush, Ahmed goes to Herculean lengths to save Kinley’s life. When Kinley learns that Ahmed and his family were not given safe passage to America as promised, he must repay his debt by returning to the war zone to retrieve them before the Taliban hunts them down first.” Check out The Covenant on Prime Video and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of Guy Ritchie’s future projects. Release Date April 21, 2023 Runtime 123 minutes Director Guy Ritchie Cast Jake Gyllenhaal Master Sergeant John Kinley Writers Marn Davies, Guy Ritchie, Ivan Atkinson Producers John Friedberg, Samantha Waite, Olga Filipuk, Guy Ritchie, Ivan Atkinson, Josh Berger