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In Theaters Now
- 2024
- R
- Lionsgate
- 2 h
- 2024
- R
- Lionsgate
- 2 h
Summary Based upon recently declassified files of the British War Department and inspired by true events, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is an action-comedy that tells the story of the first-ever special forces organization formed during WWII by UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill and a small group of military officials including author I...
Directed By: Guy Ritchie
Written By: Paul Tamasy, Eric Johnson, Arash Amel, Guy Ritchie
In Theaters Now
- 2024
- R
- Lionsgate
- 2 h
- 2024
- R
- Lionsgate
- 2 h
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
55
6.6
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Summary Based upon recently declassified files of the British War Department and inspired by true events, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is an action-comedy that tells the story of the first-ever special forces organization formed during WWII by UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill and a small group of military officials including author I...
Directed By: Guy Ritchie
Written By: Paul Tamasy, Eric Johnson, Arash Amel, Guy Ritchie
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 38 Critic Reviews
55
45% Positive
17 Reviews
17 Reviews
53% Mixed
20 Reviews
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3% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 38 Critic Reviews
55
45% Positive
17 Reviews
17 Reviews
53% Mixed
20 Reviews
20 Reviews
3% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is everything you want in a movie: the fight scenes are bloody and exciting, the dialogue is tongue-in-cheek, every joke landed, and not one actor felt out of place.
There’s a glee in the Nazi killing and an exceptionally dry humor that is English through and through, but Ritchie strikes a tone that rides the line between self-serious and self-consciously humorous.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 117 User Ratings
6.6
56% Positive
66 Ratings
66 Ratings
33% Mixed
39 Ratings
39 Ratings
10% Negative
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 117 User Ratings
6.6
56% Positive
66 Ratings
66 Ratings
33% Mixed
39 Ratings
39 Ratings
10% Negative
12 Ratings
12 Ratings
Movie was a lot of fun with some great characters I would love to see it transition too a series similar to what happened to Guy Richie's other movie the gentleman
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As another one of the director’s mid-budget, mid-level crowd-pleasers, it mostly works – well-made enough to distract in the moment but not quite enough to last in the many after, unlikely to catapult him to the top or sink him to the bottom.
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare would seem to be an almost ideal project for Ritchie—which is why its lethargy comes as such a dispiriting surprise.
The disappointment in The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare lies in how much potential it had to be something more.
The film has zero finesse even by Ritchie’s standards, but if star ratings were calculated on body count alone, give it hundreds.
This wasn't bad. Acting was good. A bit violent, but so is war. Some characters seemed to be miscast. Interesting story that played out in reasonable time. We'd say; "go ahead and watch for a little slice of WWII."
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The movie is surprisingly bland. I was hoping for something like another Inglourious Basterds, but the movie falls flat in every way. What a shame because it has every potential to be great. It is not a bad movie, but I would rather spent my time doing something else if I can take that time back. 6 is because I love Henry Cavil and Guy Richie, otherwise, it would be a 5.
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This is now my THIRD attempt* at (daring to -- ) write a NEGATIVE review of the much-anticipated Guy Richie film -- THE MINISTRY OF UNGENTLEMANLY WARFARE.
I was really looking forward to this film. I'm a great student of World War II (my father having served stateside during the period), and many of the films on my all-time fav list are epics such as PATTON (1970) and A BRIDGE TOO FAR (1977).
On the positive side, the film has some breathtaking locations and fairly decent casting in the leads: Henry Cavill and Alan Ritchson both, in the true self-satisfied-spirit of the entire film, do a handy job of chewing up the scenery.
(Babs Olusanmokun, however, practically sleepwalks through the role -- a cardboard cutout could almost have been substituted with equal effect.)
The biggest problem with the film is the pacing -- the action sequences (which are all pretty much already in the trailer) take FOREVER to get to -- a fact made all the more excruciating by the tiresome, poorly written dialogue sequences.
(At times, it actually sounds like the actors are ad-libbing, only more in the spirit of "get it over with" than offering anything genuine.)
Film scores are many times one of my favorite elements of a successful film, however, the score by Christopher Benstead seems very repetitive, with maybe only three key themes being used (the "faux cocktail" theme being the one I remember as most grating on my patience -- being constantly used to try to artificially amp up the tension in the interim.)
Although I usually stay for the full credits on theatrical releases, I was so exhausted and disappointed that I walked out as the "faux Morricone" theme began to play . . .
HIGHLY UN-RECOMMENDED.
* NOTE: Both my Rotten Tomatoes and Google reviews were pulled down for mysterious reasons -- apparently they mortally offended the LionsGate Marketing Department. (SOLUTION: Make better movies!)
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