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THE MINISTRY OF UNGENTLEMANLY WARFARE – Chris Benstead
Original Review by Jonathan Broxton
Guy Ritchie and Matthew Vaughan do like making film and TV projects about ‘gentlemen,’ don’t they? After the 2019 film The Gentlemen, and the spinoff TV series of the same from earlier this year, we now have The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, a comic-book style action adventure set during World War II. Unexpectedly, the film is based on a mostly true story; it stars Henry Cavill as Major Gus March-Phillips, who in 1942 was recruited by Winston Churchill himself to carry out a dangerous secret mission codenamed Operation Postmaster, which required March-Phillips and his team to travel to the island of Fernando Po off the coast of west Africa and destroy the Italian ship Duquesa d’Aosta, thereby cutting off the supply chain to Nazi U-Boats in the north Atlantic. What follows is an unexpectedly violent but also tongue-in-cheek boys own adventure full of exotic locations, evil Nazis, spectacular action sequences, and lots of witty banter between March-Phillips and his men. Interestingly, one of the supporting characters in the movie is a young British officer named Ian Fleming; the real life Fleming supposedly based his character James Bond in part on March-Phillips and his exploits. Read more…
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