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

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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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.”

“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.

Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant