Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

[Silent Disapproval Robot]

I watched this last night.   Found it very frustrating because all the parts were there to make a good movie.  The sets were good.  Budget was good.  Everything looked great.  It's loosely based on a true story which was pretty nuts and should have made for a very good, high risk commando raid type story.  Sadly, the tone was way off for me.  Guy Ritchie decided to portray the commandos/SOE agents as a wacky band of hyper-competent unconventional misfits and the Axis and Spanish forces as bumbling morons so there was no sense of risk or tension at all.  To me, it came across as a bad combination of an episode of The A-Team, Hogan's Heroes, and Inglorious Bastards.

Really wanted to like it but it left me cold in the end because it could have and should have been so much better than it was.

[ArizonaTank]

Really wanted to like it but it left me cold in the end because it could have and should have been so much better than it was.

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