Henry Cavill’s new action movie gets mixed reviews, with critics saying it’s full of style but doesn’t live up to its potential
Apr. 17, 2024The reviews for The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare are in
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The reviews are in for Guy Ritchie and Henry Cavill’s new action-comedy The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare – but they’re decidedly mixed.
The new action caper, loosely based on the real events of Operation Postmaster during World War 2 and the Damien Lewis book Churchill’s Secret Warriors: The Explosive True Story of the Special Forces Desperadoes of WWII, stars Cavill as Gus March-Phillipps, a soldier leading a force tasked with a daring raid on Italian ships off the coast of the then-Spanish island of Fernado Po.
Unfortunately, critics aren’t all sold on The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, withScreen Dailycalling it a “smirking, shallow action-comedy” and a “total mission failure.” Ouch.
“Though not Guy Ritchie’s best film, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare has enough slick style and exhilarating action to be a helluva fun ride,“Screen Rant’s Molly Freeman wrote.
Others, such asVariety, suggest however that Guy Ritchie is in a “tamer, slightly more traditional mode” for what amounts to “straightforward set-pieces.”
The Hollywood Reporterremarks that the movie – which also stars Alan Ritchson, Eiza Gonzalez, and Henry Golding – is let down by its execution, which “doesn’t maximize the story’s potential.”
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The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is set for release in US cinemas on April 19, with it heading to Prime Video in select territories at a later date. For more, check out some of theupcoming moviescoming your way very soon.
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