The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is a Guy Ritchie movie based on a true story of folks killing Nazis. Of course, Guy Ritchie has made the story his own and has taken many liberties and exaggerated it a lot.
What his movies excel at are great dialogues that are incredibly funny, and great scenes that are coherent to the story. Overall, the writing in his movies used to be immaculate. I think recently his movies have lost these special touches, that made his older movies special.
His best movie is still Snatch in my opinion. The characters are still memorable to this day, and it is one of the funniest, if not the funniest movie I have ever seen. This movie, the ministry of ungentlemanly warfare, is not as good as the responses and the reviews led me to believe. It is fun sometimes, especially when Alan Ritchson and Henry cavil are on screen. Henry isn’t given much to do except for being good looking and taking other people’s stuff. Alan, however, is really great in this movie. I didn’t except to like his performance mainly because I was not a big fan of him in the Richter series. Dude surprised me a lot in this movie. I enjoyed this movie as much as I did because of primarily him. He plays guy who turns into a psychopathic and unhinged killing machine when it comes to killing Nazis. All the Nazi killing scenes are brutal and spectacular. And that concludes the positive section of the movie.
As I have said before, the dialogues, and the scene structure is not as good. The dialogues are not as sharp as the writers envisioned. They really overestimated the coolness of the dialogues.
There are some scenes that lead nowhere. I can best describe them as nondirectional and random. Like the whole island part of the subplot containing the main villain isn’t nearly as engaging as the scenes of the boys killing Nazis. The extended politics part with Churchill and other Generals isn’t as interesting. The banter between the characters doesn’t work. It feels forced and unnatural. The subplots feel pointless and boring.
None of these problems are because of the actors. They tried their best, but the writing didn’t have their back. Having said that, I think it is an average, okay-ish fun movie; definitely not as fun as Guy Ritchie’s older movies.
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