From "Aladdin" to "Fountain of Youth," Guy Ritchie has spread his wings in recent years and traveled far and wide to build fantasy worlds for the audiences to lose themselves in. The British director returns to his London street-level crime drama roots as he teams up with "Top Boy" writer Ronan Bennett for "MobLand.

Guy Ritchie and the creator of 'The Day of the Jackal' turn their lens on a London crime family in "MobLand" starring Helen Mirren and Pierxe Brosnan.

Tom Hardy, Pierce Brosnan, Helen Mirren, and Paddy Considine are predictably captivating as its chief criminals, but at least on the basis of its first two episodes, it’s a whole lot of stale plotting and humdrum posturing.