Title - The Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare
Production - Black Bear, Jerry Bruckheimer Films, Lionsgate Films
Starring - Henry Cavill, Alan Ritchson, Eiza Gonzalez, Alex Pettyfer, Babs Olusanmokun, Hero Feinnes Tiffin, Henry Golding, Cary Elwes, Rory Kinnear, Freddie Fox, Til Schweiger, Danny Sapani, Henrique Zaga, Victor Oshin, Simon Paisley Day
Writer - Paul Tamasy, Eric Johnson, Arash Amel, Guy Ritchie
Director - Guy Ritchie
Release - 19 April 2024
How could anyone not enjoy this movie? It's such an entertaining, action flick, set in WWII, killing Nazis. Yet, it made a terrible loss at the box office.
Henry Cavill leading a group of ragtag misfits - his very own Suicide Squad. And nobody was interested? Weird.
The opening sequence with Cavill and Alan Ritchson acting Swedish was just hilarious. That immediately set the tone for what's to come, and I was salivating for more. And what followed did not disappoint.
It had a two-hour runtime. I did not feel it at all. Eiza Gonzalez was magnetic and magnificent. When we were not following Cavill's group, we had Gonzalez and Babs Olusanmokun to fill the screen, and they were just as interesting and entertaining.
The only problem I could see was that the notion of the targeted boat being unsinkable was not a well thought-out concept. If the boat was unsinkable, blowing its interior to smithereens would have worked just as well.
Also, everything was too clean. I wouldn't mind a death or two among our company of heroes would have been a tad more dramatic but, with this tone, I guess it was hard to conceive losing anyone. Then again, the characters were based on real people who did not die on this mission.
I had a lot of fun with this, and I wished more people would have given it a fair chance. It didn't come to Brunei, so the studio didn't give it an expansive release too.
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