re: Guy Ritchie’s: The Gentlemen on Netflix

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Fiance’ hated the ending. Her gripe was that the whole point of everything the Duke did was to get out of the business then all of a sudden in the last episode he decides he wants to take it over? I guess she has a point.


She was right. His motivations changed completely in the last episode. Also the finale depended upon a bunch of people acting, outside of their normal, without all the information when they could have made a simple phone call. Are to we to believe the Scouse gangsters just left right after they found out who killed their brother and they just say forget it. Also, there is no way the staff of 20+ people are just ok with hiding in the cellar while there is a siege of the house going on?

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I really don't think it was out of character for Eddie. Sure, he seems to have "done all the right things" separate and apart from his noble upbringing, but at the same time, his one and only driving motivation is to protect his family.

At the end of the season, he was confronted with the possibility of someone he did not like and who did not have his family's interests in mind taking control of an operation that was based on his grounds.

Certainly, Glass and Johnston "assured" him he was out, but he also learned he could not give full faith to the word of those "gentlemen." Also, what happened to The Gospel once the "protection" appears to be gone.

Also, by securing/protecting what he deemed as a benign vice, he prevented the expansion of more dangerous drugs using that operation as a ready made distribution hub. Thus, he is protecting his country as well. (I'll admit that is a little of a reach)