Guy Ritchie recap: the story so far

No. 01 · 1998 · Film

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels recap

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) follows four London friends who owe a porn king £500,000 after a rigged card game and plan to rob their neighbours. Written and directed by Guy Ritchie, this is his first feature. Card sharp Eddie (Nick Moran) loses the pooled stake of himself, Tom (Jason Flemyng), Soap (Dexter Fletcher) and Bacon (Jason Statham) to "Hatchet" Harry Lonsdale (P.H. Moriarty), who wants the bar owned by Eddie's father JD (Sting) and sends debt collector Big Chris (Vinnie Jones). Eddie overhears his neighbours, a crew led by Dog (Frank Harper), planning to rob a cannabis farm run by posh students, and the friends decide to ambush the robbers afterwards. Meanwhile two Scouse thieves steal a pair of antique shotguns for Harry and sell them to the fence Nick the Greek, who passes them to Tom. The stolen cannabis belongs to the gangster Rory Breaker (Vas Blackwood), and every party converges on Eddie's flat.

How Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels ends

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels ends with the friends broke but free and Tom about to drop a fortune into the Thames. A shootout in the flat kills Rory's and Dog's gangs, Harry and his enforcer Barry die in a shootout with the thieves, and Big Chris keeps the cash. The police release the four because the only witness identifies Dog's crew. Chris returns their empty bag, holding an auction catalogue that shows the shotguns are worth a fortune, and the last shot freezes on Tom leaning over Battersea Bridge with his phone ringing in his mouth. A spin-off series, Lock, Stock..., ran for seven episodes in 2000.

Post-credits scenes

No. Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels has no mid- or post-credits scene; the story stops on the freeze-frame before the credits.

No. 02 · 2000 · Film

Snatch recap

Snatch (2000) crosses a hunt for a stolen 84-carat diamond with an unlicensed boxing promoter forced to fix a fight for a sadistic London gangster. Guy Ritchie's second feature reuses much of the Lock, Stock cast. Franky Four-Fingers (Benicio del Toro) robs an Antwerp jeweller and brings the stone to London for Cousin Avi (Dennis Farina), but the arms dealer Boris the Blade (Rade Šerbedžija) has three small-time crooks rob a bookmaker to grab Franky. Promoter Turkish (Jason Statham) and his partner Tommy (Stephen Graham) lose their boxer when the Irish Traveller Mickey O'Neil (Brad Pitt) knocks him out over a caravan deal, so they put Mickey in the ring for Brick Top (Alan Ford), who demands he go down in the fourth round. Avi hires Bullet Tooth Tony (Vinnie Jones) to recover the stone, and Brick Top's men burn the caravan of Mickey's mother with her inside.

How Snatch ends

Snatch ends with the diamond inside a dog and Brick Top dead. Mickey refuses to stay down, wins the fight after betting on himself, and the Travellers kill Brick Top and his men in an ambush. Boris and Tony die in the scramble for the stone, Avi shoots Tony by accident while aiming at the dog that swallowed it, and he flies home in disgust. Turkish and Tommy end up with the dog, a vet retrieves the diamond, and Doug the Head calls Avi back to London to buy it. A television spin-off followed in 2017.

Post-credits scenes

No. Snatch has no mid- or post-credits scene.

No. 03 · 2002 · Film

Swept Away recap

Swept Away (2002) strands a spoiled millionaire's wife and the Italian deckhand she torments on a deserted Mediterranean island, where their roles reverse. Guy Ritchie wrote and directed this remake of Lina Wertmüller's 1974 film, his third feature, starring his then wife Madonna. Amber Leighton (Madonna) joins her husband Tony (Bruce Greenwood) and two other couples on a private cruise from Greece to Italy and insults the deckhand Giuseppe Esposito (Adriano Giannini, son of the original's lead) at every turn. She insists on a dinghy trip despite his warning about a storm, the engine runs dry, and they wash up on an empty island. There Giuseppe's survival skills put him in charge, he begins to dominate her, and the two fall into a passionate relationship. When Amber spots a boat anchored offshore, she hides rather than be rescued.

How Swept Away ends

Swept Away ends with the lovers separated. They are rescued and returned to their old lives, and Giuseppe writes to Amber and waits for an answer that never comes, believing she has rejected him. The final reveal shows that Tony has intercepted the letters, making sure Amber never sees them or Giuseppe again. The remake flopped, earning about $1 million on a $10 million budget, and is often listed among the worst films ever made.

No. 04 · 2005 · Film

Revolver recap

Revolver (2005) follows Jake Green, a gambler out of seven years in solitary, who beats the casino boss who put him there and becomes a target. Guy Ritchie's fourth feature reunites him with Jason Statham. Jake (Statham) humiliates the crime boss Dorothy Macha (Ray Liotta) over a chip toss, and Macha orders him killed. After Jake collapses on the stairs, the loan sharks Zach (Vincent Pastore) and Avi (André Benjamin) save him from Macha's hitman Sorter (Mark Strong) and offer protection in exchange for all his money and total obedience, claiming he has a blood disease that will kill him in three days. Jake learned "the Formula", a method for winning any game or con, from two unseen prisoners in the neighbouring cells. Zach and Avi steer him through robberies of Macha's cocaine and of the Triad boss Lord John, while Macha fears the unseen kingpin Sam Gold.

How Revolver ends

Revolver ends with Jake beating his own ego rather than Macha. His terminal diagnosis proves wrong, and Zach and Avi turn out to be the two prisoners who taught him the Formula; they explain that Sam Gold only has the power people give him. Sorter turns on Macha's crew to save Jake's niece. Jake confronts the fear in his head inside a stuck elevator, then walks past Macha's gun and leaves him weeping. A recut version reached US cinemas in 2007.

No. 05 · 2008 · Film

RocknRolla recap

RocknRolla (2008) follows a crooked London land deal where a gangster, a Russian billionaire, his accountant and a crew of thieves chase the same €7 million. Guy Ritchie's fifth feature returns him to London crime after Revolver. Lenny Cole (Tom Wilkinson) fixes planning permission through a corrupt councillor, with his right-hand man Archy (Mark Strong) narrating. The Russian investor Uri Omovich (Karel Roden) pays Lenny the bribe money and lends him a lucky painting, but his accountant Stella (Thandiwe Newton) hires One-Two (Gerard Butler), Mumbles (Idris Elba) and Handsome Bob (Tom Hardy) of the Wild Bunch to rob the payment, twice. Lenny's junkie rock-star stepson Johnny Quid (Toby Kebbell) fakes his death and steals the painting, which passes through crackheads and the Wild Bunch to Stella. Uri, blaming Lenny for the robberies, has Lenny's leg broken over a round of golf.

How RocknRolla ends

RocknRolla ends with Archy discovering that Lenny is the police informant "Sidney Shaw" who has kept his own men in prison for years. Archy frees the Wild Bunch and has Lenny drowned and fed to crayfish, while Uri orders Stella killed after seeing the painting in her house. Johnny talks his way out of an elevator execution, and Archy later collects him from rehab and hands him the painting. A title card promised a sequel, The Real RocknRolla, which never got made.

Post-credits scenes

Yes. After the credits, One-Two finally agrees to the dance Handsome Bob asked him for.

No. 06 · 2009 · Film

Sherlock Holmes recap

Sherlock Holmes (2009) pits Arthur Conan Doyle's detective against Lord Blackwood, an occultist who seems to rise from the grave after his hanging. Guy Ritchie's sixth feature, and his first studio blockbuster, casts Robert Downey Jr. as Holmes and Jude Law as Dr. John Watson. In 1890 London they stop Lord Henry Blackwood (Mark Strong) mid-ritual; he is hanged, and Watson, about to marry Mary Morstan (Kelly Reilly), plans to move out of Baker Street. Then Blackwood's tomb is found broken open with another man's body inside. Holmes's old adversary Irene Adler (Rachel McAdams) returns on an errand for a mysterious professor, and the secret Temple of the Four Orders asks Holmes to stop Blackwood, revealed as the illegitimate son of its head. Blackwood's fellow members begin dying in ways that look supernatural, and his plan points to Parliament.

How Sherlock Holmes ends

Sherlock Holmes ends on the unfinished Tower Bridge, where Holmes explains that every one of Blackwood's miracles was a trick of chemistry and staging. Adler has already destroyed the cyanide device built to gas Parliament, and Blackwood dies hanging from a chain when the scaffolding gives way. Adler reveals that her employer is Professor Moriarty, who used the chaos to steal a radio control part from the device. Holmes reopens the case, which leads into A Game of Shadows.

Post-credits scenes

No. Sherlock Holmes has no mid- or post-credits scene; the credits play over sketch-style stills.

No. 07 · 2011 · Film

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows recap

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011) sends Holmes and Watson across Europe in 1891 to stop Professor Moriarty from provoking a war he has invested in. Guy Ritchie's seventh feature is the direct sequel to Sherlock Holmes (2009), with Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law back as Holmes and Dr. John Watson. A string of bombings blamed on anarchists is pushing France and Germany toward war, and Holmes ties them to Professor James Moriarty (Jared Harris), who poisons Irene Adler (Rachel McAdams) early on. Moriarty's men attack Watson and his bride Mary on their honeymoon train, and Holmes throws Mary into a river where his brother Mycroft (Stephen Fry) collects her. With the fortune-teller Simza Heron (Noomi Rapace), whose brother René works for Moriarty, they track a bomb in Paris, an arms factory in Germany and finally a peace summit in Switzerland, while the marksman Sebastian Moran keeps them in his sights.

How Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows ends

A Game of Shadows ends at the Reichenbach Falls. Holmes has swapped Moriarty's coded notebook, so Mary breaks the cipher and Lestrade strips Moriarty's fortune for war orphans. Knowing his injured shoulder will lose the fight, Holmes pulls Moriarty over the balcony and both vanish into the falls, as in Doyle's "The Final Problem". After the funeral, Watson receives Mycroft's oxygen device and steps out, and the hidden Holmes adds a question mark after "The End" in Watson's manuscript.

Post-credits scenes

No. A Game of Shadows has no mid- or post-credits scene.

No. 08 · 2015 · Film

The Man from U.N.C.L.E. recap

The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015) pairs a CIA thief-turned-agent and a KGB enforcer in 1963 to stop a neo-Nazi couple from building a private nuclear bomb. Guy Ritchie directed and co-wrote with Lionel Wigram, his eighth feature, based on the 1960s television series. Napoleon Solo (Henry Cavill) smuggles Gaby Teller (Alicia Vikander), daughter of a missing nuclear scientist, out of East Berlin while Illya Kuryakin (Armie Hammer) tries to stop them. Their superiors then order the two rivals to work together. In Rome, Gaby's uncle works for the shipping heiress Victoria Vinciguerra (Elizabeth Debicki) and her husband Alexander, who are holding Gaby's father. Illya poses as Gaby's fiancé, Solo charms Victoria, and both men carry secret orders to take the scientist's research disc for their own side. Gaby appears to betray them, and the trail leads to an island fortress.

How The Man from U.N.C.L.E. ends

The Man from U.N.C.L.E. ends with the Americans and Soviets left empty-handed. Gaby turns out to be working for British intelligence under Alexander Waverly (Hugh Grant), Alexander dies fleeing with a decoy warhead, and Waverly's missile destroys the real bomb with Victoria aboard. Illya and Solo each confess orders to kill the other for the disc, and they burn it together. Waverly then assigns Solo, Kuryakin and Gaby to a new outfit, codenamed U.N.C.L.E. A sequel has never been made.

Post-credits scenes

No. The Man from U.N.C.L.E. has no mid- or post-credits scene; the credits open with dossiers on the main characters.

No. 09 · 2017 · Film

King Arthur: Legend of the Sword recap

King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017) raises Arthur in a Londinium brothel, unaware he is heir to the throne his uncle Vortigern seized by dark magic. Guy Ritchie's ninth feature retells the legend as a gangland origin story. Vortigern (Jude Law) sacrifices his wife to sea witches to kill his brother, King Uther Pendragon (Eric Bana), and the infant Arthur escapes downriver. Grown into a street hustler, Arthur (Charlie Hunnam) is rounded up when the sword in the stone appears and every man of age is forced to try it. He pulls Excalibur free, faints from visions of his parents' death, and is set for public execution. The Mage (Àstrid Bergès-Frisbey), an acolyte of Merlin, and Uther's old general Bedivere (Djimon Hounsou) rescue him. Arthur refuses the crown until a journey into the Darklands shows him the truth about his father.

How King Arthur: Legend of the Sword ends

King Arthur: Legend of the Sword ends with Arthur accepting Excalibur and killing Vortigern, who has sacrificed his own daughter to become a demon knight again. The Mage sends a giant serpent against the castle as Bedivere's rebels attack, and Arthur takes the throne. He knights his allies and begins work on the Round Table. Planned as the first of six films, the series stopped after this one lost heavily at the box office.

Post-credits scenes

No. King Arthur: Legend of the Sword has no mid- or post-credits scene.

No. 10 · 2019 · Film

Aladdin recap

Aladdin (2019) remakes Disney's 1992 cartoon in live action: a street thief finds a lamp holding a Genie and poses as a prince to court Princess Jasmine. Guy Ritchie directed and co-wrote with John August, his tenth feature and his first musical. Aladdin (Mena Massoud) and his monkey Abu meet Jasmine (Naomi Scott), who wants to succeed her father the Sultan rather than marry a suitor. The vizier Jafar (Marwan Kenzari) sends Aladdin into the Cave of Wonders for the lamp and then betrays him, but Abu keeps it. The Genie (Will Smith) turns Aladdin into "Prince Ali of Ababwa", and Aladdin promises his third wish will free him, while the Genie falls for Jasmine's handmaiden Dalia (Nasim Pedrad). Jafar learns Aladdin's secret, throws him into the sea, and later steals the lamp.

How Aladdin ends

Aladdin ends with Jafar tricked into wishing to become the most powerful being in the universe, which turns him into a genie trapped in his own lamp. Aladdin uses his last wish to free the Genie as promised, the Sultan names Jasmine his successor, and she marries Aladdin. The Genie, now human, marries Dalia and sails off with their children, framing the story he has been telling. The remake adds Jasmine's new song "Speechless" and her claim to the throne, both absent from the 1992 film.

Post-credits scenes

No. Aladdin has no mid- or post-credits scene; the credits open with a song-and-dance number.

No. 11 · 2019 · Film

The Gentlemen recap

The Gentlemen (2019) follows an American cannabis baron in England whose plan to sell his empire for £400 million sets off a chain of schemes against him. Guy Ritchie's eleventh feature returns him to the London crime comedy. Mickey Pearson (Matthew McConaughey), a Rhodes scholar who grew his business inside aristocrats' estates, wants to retire with his wife Rosalind (Michelle Dockery) and sell to the billionaire Matthew Berger (Jeremy Strong). The story is told by the private investigator Fletcher (Hugh Grant), who pitches a screenplay of everything he has learned to Mickey's right-hand man Raymond (Charlie Hunnam) as blackmail. A young gangster called Dry Eye (Henry Golding) wants to buy in, a team of MMA kids trained by Coach (Colin Farrell) raids one of Mickey's farms, and a fight over an aristocrat's addicted daughter leaves the son of a Russian oligarch dead.

How The Gentlemen ends

The Gentlemen ends with Mickey back on top. Dry Eye dies trying to attack Rosalind, Berger is locked in a freezer until he pays compensation and a pound of flesh, and Coach's fighters save Mickey from the oligarch's hitmen. Raymond has already taken back Fletcher's evidence, and Fletcher climbs into a cab that Raymond is driving. A Netflix spin-off series of the same name followed in 2024.

Post-credits scenes

No. The Gentlemen has no mid- or post-credits scene.

No. 12 · 2021 · Film

Wrath of Man recap

Wrath of Man (2021) follows a quiet new guard at a Los Angeles cash-truck company who turns out to be a crime boss hunting the robbers who killed his son. Guy Ritchie's twelfth feature, loosely based on the French film Cash Truck (2004), is his fourth with Jason Statham. Patrick Hill (Statham), nicknamed H, barely passes his firearms test at Fortico, then kills a whole robbery crew single-handed when his trainer Bullet (Holt McCallany) is taken hostage. The story jumps back to show that H is really Mason Hargreaves, whose son Dougie died in a Fortico robbery that H was secretly scouting for his own crew. With an FBI agent (Andy García) looking the other way, H's men tear through suspects before he joins Fortico to find the inside man. A third chapter shows the robbers: Afghanistan veterans led by Jackson (Jeffrey Donovan), including the volatile Jan (Scott Eastwood).

How Wrath of Man ends

Wrath of Man ends with the veterans hitting the Fortico depot on Black Friday weekend and Bullet revealed as their inside man. H kills most of the crew before Bullet shoots him, and Jan murders Jackson and Bullet to take all the money. H tracks Jan with a phone hidden in the cash and shoots him in the same organs as the bullets that killed Dougie, as listed in the autopsy, then walks away from the money.

Post-credits scenes

No. Wrath of Man has no mid- or post-credits scene.

No. 13 · 2023 · Film

Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre recap

Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre (2023) follows a freelance spy and his team as they recover a stolen weapon before an arms dealer sells it. Guy Ritchie's thirteenth feature is his fifth with Jason Statham. Government handler Nathan Jasmine (Cary Elwes) hires Orson Fortune (Statham), the hacker Sarah Fidel (Aubrey Plaza) and the marksman J.J. Davies (Bugzy Malone) to retrieve "the Handle", a device stolen from a Ukrainian black site. The broker is the billionaire Greg Simmonds (Hugh Grant), so the team blackmails his favourite actor, Danny Francesco (Josh Hartnett), into bringing them close: Sarah poses as Danny's girlfriend and Orson as his manager at a gala in Cannes. Simmonds invites them to his villa in Antalya, where they learn the Handle is an AI built to beat any security system. A rival team led by Mike (Peter Ferdinando) keeps reaching the prize first.

How Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre ends

Operation Fortune ends with Mike stealing the Handle at the handover and selling it to two tech billionaires hoarding gold for a market crash. Simmonds, cheated of his commission, helps Orson's team, the buyers and sellers turn on each other, and Orson kills Mike and recovers the device. In Doha the team turns down a new job for a holiday, and Orson reveals he has bankrolled a film of the whole affair starring Danny as Simmonds.

No. 14 · 2023 · Film

Guy Ritchie's The Covenant recap

Guy Ritchie's The Covenant (2023) follows a US Army sergeant who returns to Taliban-held Afghanistan to rescue the interpreter who carried him to safety. Ritchie's fourteenth feature is a straight war drama. In 2018, Master Sergeant John Kinley (Jake Gyllenhaal) hires Ahmed Abdullah (Dar Salim), a former Taliban associate who turned on them after they killed his son. Ahmed proves his worth by spotting an ambush, and Kinley comes to trust him. A raid on an arms cache goes wrong, the rest of the unit is killed, and Ahmed hauls the wounded Kinley for days across the mountains on a makeshift cart. Back home in California, Kinley learns that Ahmed and his family are in hiding with a Taliban bounty on them and that his visa is stuck. Unable to sleep, he flies back alone and enlists the private contractor Parker (Antony Starr) for support.

How Guy Ritchie's The Covenant ends

The Covenant ends at the Darunta Dam, where Kinley and Ahmed run out of ammunition holding off the Taliban until an AC-130 gunship and Parker's convoy arrive. Ahmed's family boards a plane out of Afghanistan with their visas. Closing title cards report that after the Taliban took back the country, hundreds of Afghan interpreters who worked with US forces were killed and thousands remain in hiding.

No. 15 · 2024 · Film

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare recap

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (2024) dramatises Operation Postmaster, a covert 1942 British raid on Axis supply ships in a neutral African port. Guy Ritchie directed and co-wrote this fifteenth feature from Damien Lewis's book Churchill's Secret Warriors, fictionalising events heavily. Brigadier Colin Gubbins (Cary Elwes) sends Gus March-Phillipps (Henry Cavill) to sink the Italian ship Duchessa d'Aosta on Spanish Fernando Po, the supply line for U-boats in the Atlantic. Gus sails with Anders Lassen (Alan Ritchson), Freddy Alvarez (Henry Golding) and Henry Hayes (Hero Fiennes Tiffin), first freeing Geoffrey Appleyard (Alex Pettyfer) from the Germans. Ashore, the agents Marjorie Stewart (Eiza González) and Richard Heron (Babs Olusanmokun) work the island, with Marjorie charming the SS commander Heinrich Luhr (Til Schweiger). When the ship moves its departure forward, the team crosses a British blockade without permission.

How The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare ends

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare ends with the team stealing the Duchessa and the tugs rather than sinking them, while Marjorie shoots Luhr. They deliver the ships to the Royal Navy off Lagos and are arrested, then saved when Churchill takes them into his "Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare". A closing montage sketches their real later lives and notes that Ian Fleming, who sits in Gubbins's office, drew on the operation for James Bond.

No. 16 · 2024 · Series

The Gentlemen recap

The Gentlemen (2024) is a Netflix crime comedy series in which an army officer inherits his father's dukedom and the cannabis empire hidden under the estate. Guy Ritchie created the spin-off from his 2019 film, set in the same world with new characters. Season 1, eight episodes released in March 2024, follows Eddie Horniman (Theo James), a former UN peacekeeper who becomes Duke of Halstead over his elder brother Freddy (Daniel Ings), a cocaine-addled liability in debt to Liverpool gangsters. Susie Glass (Kaya Scodelario), running the business for her imprisoned father Bobby (Ray Winstone), needs the farm under Halstead Manor to stay put, and Eddie, trying to shield his family, slips deeper into the criminal world instead of getting out. His mother Sabrina (Joely Richardson) and sister Charly also get pulled in, while the American investor Stanley Johnston (Giancarlo Esposito) works to weaken the Glass empire and buy it. Season 2, eight more episodes released in September 2026, takes the business into Italy through the Moretti crime family and has Eddie, now in the House of Lords, push to legalise cannabis against Bobby's wishes. Bobby has him beaten and left in a shallow grave, and Eddie's marriage to the countess Bella ends when her seaplane explodes on their honeymoon.

How The Gentlemen ends

The Gentlemen's first season ends with "The Gospel According to Bobby Glass": Eddie wins the auction for Bobby's empire by having Johnston arrested for tax fraud, killing rival bidders and executing his partner Henry Collins, and Bobby reveals his retirement was a test. Season 2 ends with "Bring Me the Head", in which Eddie learns that Freddy ordered the attacks on the family to reclaim the dukedom, spares him, and makes him behead the Liverpool gangster John Dixon. Netflix ordered a third season in August 2026.

No. 17 · 2025 · Film

Fountain of Youth recap

Fountain of Youth (2025) sends estranged siblings on a global heist to find the mythical spring, following clues hidden in six famous paintings. Guy Ritchie directed this sixteenth feature from a script by James Vanderbilt for Apple TV+. Disgraced archaeologist Luke Purdue (John Krasinski) steals a painting from Thai gangsters, then lures his sister Charlotte (Natalie Portman), a museum curator going through a divorce, into continuing their late father's treasure hunts. Their backer is Owen Carver (Domhnall Gleeson), a billionaire who says he has terminal cancer. A secret order called the Protectors of the Path has guarded the Fountain for centuries, and its agent Esme (Eiza González) keeps cutting in, while Interpol inspector Jamal Abbas (Arian Moayed) chases everyone. The hunt raises the wreck of the Lusitania, steals the Wicked Bible in Vienna and decodes a musical clue that points beneath the Great Pyramid of Giza.

How Fountain of Youth ends

Fountain of Youth ends inside the pyramid, where Carver, never ill, forces the siblings to open the Fountain. Luke learns its curse: drinking takes life from the people you love most, so he refuses and his wound heals anyway. Carver drinks, loves nobody, and ages to death as Esme seals the chamber. Charlotte persuades Abbas to blame Carver, Esme kisses Luke and warns him off, and the family plans its next hunt.

No. 18 · 2026 · Film

In the Grey recap

In the Grey (2026) follows a debt-recovery lawyer and her two covert operatives as they try to make an island billionaire pay back $1 billion. Guy Ritchie wrote, produced and directed his seventeenth feature, released in May 2026, and reunites Henry Cavill, Jake Gyllenhaal and Eiza González from earlier films. Rachel Wild (González) recovers debts for the firm Spencer Goldstein, and when her mentor is killed on the Spanish island run by Manny Salazar (Carlos Bardem), she takes the case herself. Her operatives Sid (Cavill) and Bronco Beauregard (Gyllenhaal) sabotage Salazar's building sites and oil rig, bug his lawyer (Fisher Stevens) and his financier, and get his jet and yacht seized. They then assemble a team to secure the island, which Salazar's private police force controls, for Rachel's face-to-face meeting with him. Rosamund Pike plays Bobby Sheen, the firm's executive.

How In the Grey ends

In the Grey ends with Rachel winning twice. Salazar agrees to pay in full after her team survives his attempt to kill her, but three months later he kidnaps her, angry that the firm has kept his assets. Sid and Bronco break her out of the police station and fight across the island, losing two of their team, then deliver Salazar to Miami locked in a shipping container. Rachel works out that Bobby double-crossed her and leaves her to face Salazar's testimony.