The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

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.

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

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.

Slaughtering these clueless cut-outs in their multitudes, who seem to have no idea what they’re doing, isn’t exciting, or even much thuggish fun. It’s as if Ritchie got halfway to making Carry On Churchill, but replaced all the jokes with kill-shots.

... The old Ritchie blueprint endures in The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: charismatic lads having a laugh, blowing stuff up and nonchalantly dismissing calamities as ‘a spot of bother’.

All the swagger you'd want from a Guy Ritchie movie is completely absent here.

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare had the potential of being a great action blockbuster...For the most part, however, it’s a movie that has far too much plot and far too little character development.

A coalition of colourful characters go rocknrolla, Guy Ritchie-style, in a breezy escapist combat caper.

There are times, with its international cast, over-the-top set-pieces and quirky humour, when it feels more like a war-time version of The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou than The Dirty Dozen, but the ensemble ensures it’s never less than entertaining.

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