Even Henry Cavill and a cast of charming Ritchie regulars can't rescue this film from its own banality
Storming into theaters this weekend to play alongside murky, politically fraught films like Civil War , there’s something comfortingly simple and familiar about a historical action flick dedicated entirely to coming up with ways to kill Nazis. From Inglorious Basterds to last year’s Sisu, it’s a subgenre that’s existed for decades—and Guy Ritchie is finally throwing his hat in the Nazi-stomping ring with The Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare .
The milquetoast writing of the ensemble cast is made all the more apparent whenever Danny Sapani’s charismatic arms dealer Kalu is around—the paradoxically aristocratic criminal oozes charm and sells every line with panache. In the precious few seconds the film does devote to exploring the camaraderie between its heroes, Ritchson and Golding give a tantalizing taste of what a more character-focused version of the film might look like.
Guy Ritchie Phillipps Fernando Po Eiza Eric Johnson Eiza González Gus March-Phillipps Marjorie Gonzalez Hero Fiennes Tiffin Special Operations Executive Til Schweiger Entertainment Culture Kalu Paul Tamasy Henry Cavill Henry Golding Tiffin Danny Sapani Schweiger Gus March-Phillipps (Cavill) Cary Elwes Cultural Depictions Of Adolf Hitler Heinrich Luhr Arash Amel Civil War Hero Gus March Alan Ritchson The A.V. Club
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