Recently I, Inspector X, wrote about Guy Ritchie’s Netflix series The Gentlemen. In one of the episodes, the main character lights a cigar with a Zippo and that irked me. Especially since, according to the words spoken, it was a vintage Arturo Fuente OpusX, a cigar that is seen as the best of the best from the Dominican Republic.

Now I know, it might seem like I’m on a quest to tarnish the reputation of Guy Ritchie, but I’m actually a fan. But I’m a cigar obsessed fan when I watch a movie or series, I always try to identify the cigar if a cigar is smoked. With Guy Ritchie projects, there are often cigars involved and for the second time in just a few months’ time, it is an OpusX by Arturo Fuente. Which makes me happy, as I prefer new world cigars over Cuban cigars and I am sick and tired of movie makers that project Cubans as the best of the best. But it’s also the second time in just a few months, that I spot something wrong with OpusX in a Guy Ritchie project.

Guy Ritchie & OpusX

I don’t know if Ritchie is a cigar smoker. If you know, please let us know in the comments. But if he is, I think he’s a fan of the king of the Dominican cigars, as it’s the second time in 2024 he is using the brand in a project. While the error in The Gentlemen was lighting the cigar with a Zippo, the error in his latest movie, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, is a time error. The movie is situated in the Second World War, which raged from 1939 until 1945. Henry Cavill is the lead character and in one of the scenes he’s been asked to form a team for a special forces operation. In that scene he pours himself a drink and grabs a cigar. That cigar is clearly an Arturo Fuente OpusX, the box is in plain sight with the logo visible as you can see in the header photo and the trailer. Now here’s the issue, Arturo Fuente only released the OpusX in 1995, fifty years after the second world war ended with the capitulation of the Germans and the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. Even though I love the fact that a new world cigar was used, a Cuban cigar would have been more appropriate for this scene as that would better fit the time.