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‘The Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare’ Review: A Down And Dirty Henry Cavill Leads Unorthodox Mission Against Nazis In Guy Ritchie’s Swell WWII Adventure
A review of 'The Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare' from director Guy Ritchie who enlists ex-prisoner Henry Cavill to lead a suicide mission v Nazis.
The title is the worst thing about this lively, fun, and largely true WW2 adventure, The Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare which is inspired by the Damien Lewis book of the same name but which only extending it to add: How Churchill’s Secret Warriors Set Europe Ablaze and Gave Birth to Modern Black Ops. Guy Ritchie has taken this story of an illicit Black Ops crew, mostly of the prisoner variety, who with the permission of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (Rory Kinnear) was commissioned and put into action (a ragtag group of warriors if ever there was one) in order to sink, as it were, Nazi Germany’s U-Boats operation that had been preventing the United States from entering the war in Europe. I wasn’t as big a fan of more bloated studio projects like his two Sherlock Holmes flicks or the misguided The Man From U.N.C.L.E., the latter starring Henry Cavill who is back in action to better results with Ritchie in this one where he plays the titular leader Gus March-Phillips who embarks on this seafaring mission to undermine the Germans and hit ’em where it hurts.
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