‘The Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare’ Review: A Down And Dirty Henry Cavill Leads Unorthodox Mission Against Nazis In Guy Ritchie’s Swell WWII Adventure
deadline.comThe title is the worst thing about this lively, fun and largely true World War II adventure The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, which is inspired by the Damien Lewis book of the same name but 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 U.S.
from entering the war in Europe. Ritchie has been on a roll of late with 2019’s The Gentlemen (now a Netflix series), and a pair from last year, the terrific Afghanistan War-set The Covenant, and also another unfortunately titled but deliciously entertaining caper Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre.
There is no question this action-comedy filmmaker has been turning ’em out, and it is nice to report he is back on his game ala earlier gems like 1998’s Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and 2000’s Snatch.
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