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The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare Reviews

... At times, an entertainingly slick throwback to movies like Kelly’s Heroes and The Guns of Navarone. 

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 9, 2024

An action thriller supposedly based on true events, which makes up for most of its shortcomings with plenty of style, clever dialogue, and extremely talented actors who are clearly having fun. Full review in Spanish.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 8, 2024

My advice is to read the book instead. It's terrific.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 8, 2024

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare gets by on firepower and charisma, and that will be just fine for those looking for an old-fashioned war adventure.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 8, 2024

This film never takes itself too seriously, which is likely its main appeal. It's filled with colourful characters, each with unique quirks and traits that leave a lasting impression.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 7, 2024

Warfare leaves the feeling of a collection of scraps, typical of a first draft, that were taken directly to the set. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 6, 2024

Defeating the Nazis never gets old, and Ritchie and his team have a great time doing that in creative ways.

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Aug 5, 2024

Verisimilitude, of course, is not a Ritchie thing. But slick direction is, or used to be, and there’s none of that on show here.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Aug 5, 2024

I wasn’t bored by The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, but I can’t say I was thrilled by it, either. It came and went, and did its job with professionalism. That’s about all I can ask for from a film like this.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 2, 2024

The film does not try at any time to be a realistic production, but rather to create a heroic image of the British forces in World War II. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Original Score: 6/10 | Jul 30, 2024

The film's groovy vibe is infectious, as Ritchie mixes the alarmingly enormous body count with crisp banter, lavish production design and witty plot twists.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 30, 2024

Guy Ritchie returns to the world of guns, geezers, and grossly overcomplicated plots in a new action-comedy that plays like Quentin Tarantino's version of The Guns of Navarone.

Full Review | Jul 29, 2024

With great music, violent action sequences, and mostly superb performances from the actors, this could [and should] have been a sure victory. Instead, it fell a little flat thanks to a script that refused to offer any real stakes within the storytelling.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 28, 2024

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare has a good premise, and while it isn’t Ritchie’s worst, it’s definitely one of his most forgettable.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/10 | Jul 26, 2024

Curiously, for a movie that sounds as though it would benefit from Ritchie’s unconventional style, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is disappointingly as straightforward as it comes, particularly in both its writing and its direction.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 26, 2024

Guy Ritchie’s the action scenes are nonstop and over the top, and the weaponry and explosions endless. It’s unsatisfying as a film because there is too little character development, overshadowed by the action. But its fun.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 26, 2024

If you're looking for a mindlessly fun watch in which good triumphs over bad, this is it, even if it does swap the gritty realism of real-life events for a Boy's Own adventure.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 25, 2024

This is a perfectly undemanding watch. Just don’t watch it with a historian.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 25, 2024

he action scenes are subordinate to the banter, as putting the team together gets as much focus as the team’s mission. Ritchie can do better than this.

Full Review | Jul 25, 2024

“The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is a World War II movie via breezy comic book storytelling, so don’t expect a history lesson, expect the kind of charismatic antiheroes director Guy Ritchie has made a career of documenting,

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 25, 2024

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