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 has a good premise, and while it isn’t Ritchie’s worst, it’s definitely one of his most forgettable.

Curiously, for a movie that sounds as though it would benefit from Ritchie’s unconventional style, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is disappointingly as straightforward as it comes, particularly in both its writing and its direction.

Guy Ritchie’s the action scenes are nonstop and over the top, and the weaponry and explosions endless. It’s unsatisfying as a film because there is too little character development, overshadowed by the action. But its fun.

“The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is a World War II movie via breezy comic book storytelling, so don’t expect a history lesson, expect the kind of charismatic antiheroes director Guy Ritchie has made a career of documenting,