08-02-2024, 04:15 PM
Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare is the latest installment in the Guy Ritchie Straight To Amazon Prime Cinematic Universe and I liked it.
Kind of The Dirty Dozen meets Inglorious Basterds, but actually based on real things that happened.
Superman and Reacher are both fun leads, its a bit of a throwback to older WW2 films where the heroes just gun down nazis by the literal boat load - and theres a pretty impressive body count - nicely paced, and nicely plotted. It probably could have benefitted from a little more character depth and some time spent with the ensemble to get to know them (for example, there is zero romantic subplot between two characters who the film reveals IRL literally got married after the operation ended) and what backstory characters do have is a little perfunctory.
I've seen some complaints that it doesn't have enough stakes, but I can't really accept that because it is based in real things that happened, so yeah, spoilers, the US does join the war as allies against the Nazis and Churchill isn't forced to resign by Parliament and Britain surrender to Hitler. That ultimately the stakes set up at the start are predetermined by history isn't really good criticism any more than complaining you know Titanic will sink is.
Kind of The Dirty Dozen meets Inglorious Basterds, but actually based on real things that happened.
Superman and Reacher are both fun leads, its a bit of a throwback to older WW2 films where the heroes just gun down nazis by the literal boat load - and theres a pretty impressive body count - nicely paced, and nicely plotted. It probably could have benefitted from a little more character depth and some time spent with the ensemble to get to know them (for example, there is zero romantic subplot between two characters who the film reveals IRL literally got married after the operation ended) and what backstory characters do have is a little perfunctory.
I've seen some complaints that it doesn't have enough stakes, but I can't really accept that because it is based in real things that happened, so yeah, spoilers, the US does join the war as allies against the Nazis and Churchill isn't forced to resign by Parliament and Britain surrender to Hitler. That ultimately the stakes set up at the start are predetermined by history isn't really good criticism any more than complaining you know Titanic will sink is.
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