The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (Guy Ritchie)

EoinMcLovin

https://youtu.be/zvwDen1Wrx8?si=BWOVbajC1B90SiYh

starring Henry Cavill, Eiza González, Henry Golding, Alan Ritchson, Alex Pettyfer, Cary Elwes and more. The film is set for a theatrical release on April 19.

Billed as an “outrageous true story,” the action spy comedy is inspired by true events about U.K. Prime Minister Winston Churchill’s and James Bond author Ian Fleming’s secret WWII combat organization. The synopsis reads, “this clandestine squad’s unconventional and entirely ‘ungentlemanly’ fighting techniques against the Nazis significantly changed the course of the war and gave birth to the modern Black Ops unit.”

pixelburp

Nothing makes me more cynically dismissive of a film's story than when the trailer says "based on a true story", cos I'm willing to bet they're taking massive swings with this one.

Guy Ritchie though; man there's someone with a really chequered CV and then some.

Agent Coulson

Lots of manly manly manly men in this.

Could be fun if Ritche is on form.

Also this has to be the greatest real name in the histroy of actors....Hero Beauregard Faulkner Fiennes Tiffin

JP Liz V1

Inglourious Basterds with Reacher 😄

Skerries

toss a coin to your Reacher

JP Liz V1

Ritchie seems to have revived the career of Cary Elwes

fluke

Hook it into my veins. Ritchie has been on a great run lately.

Dial Hard

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121696100#Comment_121696100

The Fienneseseseses all have mad names. Ralph, Martha and Joseph are all officially "Twisleton-Wykeham Fiennes".

p to the e

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121697903#Comment_121697903

He was in "Blackberry" also and I did the Leonardo DiCaprio pointing meme.

silverharp

I dont think it would get me to the cinema, ww2 is kind of done as a cinema genre? bar the odd special case like Oppenheimer or Dunkirk.

Agent Coulson

It's not great at all.

The thing is there is a really great true story there for them to have a made a really good movie instead of what they made a over the top comedy caricature of the whole thing.

Hande hoche!

Interesting to hear that. Might be one of these films that sounds a lot more entertaining on paper than it actually is.

stargazer 68

Have it on now. Halfway through it. It's okay but thought it would be a bit funnier than it actually is.

JP Liz V1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122125093#Comment_122125093

Is it out on streaming?

stargazer 68

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122128229#Comment_122128229

Yes. Found it yesterday

Homelander

I can't believe this got such decent critical reviews and audience response.

I thought it was terrible, whole thing is completely unfunny, over-acted, devoid of interesting characters, incredibly generic and unmemorable action scenes.

It just doesn't work as anything - not a good WW2 movie, not a good action movie, most definitely not a comedy by any stretch. It's just this weird, hammy dud that wants to be its own brand of Inglorious Bastards but falls a mile short.

I struggled anyway. I'd say it's a 4/10 at best.

~Rebel~

I meant to post about this as well, but immediately forgot i'd even watched the movie 😅

Thought it was really bad… and worse, just boring. There's absolutely no stakes or tension whatsoever, as the lads just breeze easily through every single scenario they face. And whenever a new obstacle pops up it's just immediately dealt with, no hassle.

Doesn't help that I'm also easily irritated by this upper class Brit's backslapping stuff… no idea why they made Cavill's character that sort of posh lad either - would've been stronger if he was more of a gritty every-man lower class criminal guy that the toffs had to bring in. And it's also a bit annoying that they have an Irish character, but cast an English lad with a dodgy accent.

flasher0030

I watched the first half hour of this. Had to switch it off and head to bed. Will watch the rest of it tonight. Does it take a big nosedive after the first half hour., I thought that portion of it anyway is really good. The opening scene when the Germans come on board the boat is funny as f@ck.

gmisk

I see this is now on Amazon prime.

Looks to have been a big flop financially.

Cookie_Monster

Watched it last night, passable but not great. HMS Belfast gets a part too, playing a corvette no less, lol.

The real thing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Postmaster