Netflix Is Officially Removing the Action-Thriller That Asks “What If Guy Ritchie Directed John Wick?”

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Like fellow ’90s breakout Quentin Tarantino, director Guy Ritchie has inspired an entire generation of filmmakers. Ritchie remains as popular as ever, having gracefully made the switch to streaming. He now has three successful shows to his name — Netflix’s The Gentlemen, Paramount+’s MobLand, and Prime Video’s Young Sherlock — in addition to several movies that have proven to be major hits at home despite underperforming at the box office. The popularity of Ritchie’s work has also nudged audiences toward similar movies made by other directors. Now, one such film is about to be removed from Netflix, leaving audiences with just a week to check it out.

The movie in question is also heavily inspired by the blockbuster John Wick franchise, which has grossed more than $1.5 billion worldwide in a little over a decade. Released in 2022, the movie is essentially a chamber piece that unfolds inside the shop of a mysterious tailor whose clientele seems to include only gangsters. His shop serves as something of a haven for them, much like the Continental in the John Wick series and Hotel Artemis in Drew Pearce‘s dystopian film of the same name. The film’s protagonist, originally from England and now working in a neighborhood controlled by the Irish mob, is played by the Oscar-winning Mark Rylance.

Six actors. One role. Your answers point to the Bond who shares your presence, your method, and your particular way of carrying the weight of being the most dangerous person in the room.

You are the original — and you carry that fact without needing to announce it. There is an authority in the way you occupy a room that others spend careers trying to replicate.

• You don’t explain yourself, justify yourself, or soften yourself for anyone’s comfort. The confidence is structural, not performed.
• Connery’s Bond established everything — the tone, the danger, the cool — because Connery himself had the innate presence to make something that had never existed feel inevitable.
• You share that quality: the sense that you were always going to end up exactly here, doing exactly this.
• The name is Bond. In your case, it always was.

You understand something that more serious people miss: that wit is its own form of intelligence, and that making people laugh is not a retreat from danger but a way of mastering it.

• Moore’s Bond is underrated precisely because the effortlessness looks easy — and effortlessness is the hardest thing to manufacture.
• You have the same quality: a lightness that disarms people before they realise how sharp you actually are.
• The raised eyebrow, the perfectly timed quip, the refusal to be rattled — these are not affectations. They are a philosophy about how to move through a world that would like to take itself too seriously.
• You have never let it.

You took the role seriously when everyone wanted you to coast — and that refusal to take the easy version of anything is the most defining thing about you.

• Dalton’s Bond has genuine moral weight: he feels the cost of what he does, he has lines he won’t cross, and he is not interested in the version of himself that pretends otherwise.
• You share that intensity. You push harder than the situation technically requires, because you have a standard and you hold yourself to it.
• He was ahead of his time — the Bond the franchise wasn’t quite ready for yet, arriving exactly when he was meant to.
• You know what that feels like.

You are the complete package — and you know it, which is part of what makes you so effective and occasionally so infuriating to the people around you.

• Brosnan arrived at the role looking exactly like Bond was supposed to look, and he delivered on that expectation with a professionalism that made it seem effortless.
• You have the same quality: a smooth competence, a charm that operates like a precision instrument, and the ability to make even difficult things look like they weren’t.
• His era was the most commercially successful in the franchise’s history. There is a reason for that.
• The reason is that some people simply fit their moment perfectly. You are one of those people.

You stepped into something enormous with less preparation than anyone around you thought was sufficient — and you delivered something genuine anyway, which is the more impressive achievement.

• Lazenby’s single outing is, by many measures, one of the finest Bond films ever made — and he is not a small part of why.
• You share his quality of raw authenticity: less polished than the alternatives, more honest for it, capable of something real that technique alone can’t produce.
• He was underestimated, and then he wasn’t, and then history caught up with him.
• You are the kind of person history catches up with. Give it time.

You stripped everything back and found what was underneath — and what was underneath was harder, more honest, and more human than anyone expected.

• Craig’s Bond is the franchise’s most psychologically complete: a man doing a brutal job, carrying its costs imperfectly, capable of love and loss in ways that can’t be dismissed.
• You share that depth. You don’t hide behind the role or the charm or the suit — you let the work show what it actually costs.
• He was controversial from the moment he was announced and definitive by the time he was finished. The sceptics became the believers.
• That arc — of being underestimated and then undeniable — is one you know intimately.

Here’s How Long You Have Left to Watch the John Wick-Inspired Thriller on Netflix

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Zoey Deutch, Johnny Flynn, and Dylan O’Brien round out the eclectic ensemble cast. The movie marked the directorial debut of Graham Moore, who won an Oscar for writing The Imitation Game. We’re talking, of course, about The Outfit. Produced on a reported budget of $5 million, the film grossed only around $4 million in its theatrical run. But it’s tailor-made for home-video success, given its genre inspirations and stellar 92% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes. The action-thriller now holds a “Certified Fresh” 86% critics’ score on the aggregator website, where the consensus reads, “The Outfit isn’t flashy, but a solid story and Mark Rylance’s tightly tailored performance make this a comfortable fit for fans of old-school thrillers.” The Outfit is available to stream on Netflix until November 2. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.

The Outfit

From director/co-writer Graham Moore (The Imitation Game), the crime drama The Outfit is set in the 1950s in Chicago and follows Leonard Burling (Mark Rylance), an expert tailor whose impeccable hand-crafted suits are often worn by dangerous mobsters. Set entirely in his modest corner shop, Leonard tries to focus on his craft and stay out of the turf war among rival gangs, until it becomes clear that there’s a mole in their midst and the twists and turns of the story unfold in a way that is not only surprising for the audience, but for the characters themselves.