Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare Reviews Mostly Praise Alan Ritchson & Henry Cavill WWII Movie

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare reviews are now making their way online, with critics mostly praising the new Guy Ritchie film. Based on a book by Damien Lewis, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is based on real events and people, chronicling the first British black ops team during World War II. The film stars Henry Cavill, Alan Ritchson, Eiza Gonzáles, Cary Elwes, Henry Golding, and Alex Pettyfer, among others, following an elite team of soldiers who go behind enemy lines to disrupt the Nazi war effort.

Ahead of The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare release date, critics’ reviews for the film have been released online. The response thus far has been generally positive, though it doesn’t seem to be one of Ritchie’s best. In her review for Screen Rant, Molly Freeman writes that “sequences of brutal Nazi-killing are what make the movie entertaining,” but the film’s basis in real history did sometimes feel like a burden. William Bibbiani writes in his review for The Wrap that Ritchie “strikes a fine, fun balance between the threat that the Nazis posed and the thrill of watching hunky heroes slaughter them at great length.”

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The New Guy Ritchie Movie Sounds Like A Lot Of Fun

A common sentiment in the reviews is that The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare‘s cast is one of its greatest strengths. In his review for CinemaBlend, Mike Reyes praises Cavill and Ritchson’s dynamic, in particular, writing that they “seem to be the pair nobody knew they needed before.” Jeremy Mathai, in his review for SlashFilm, calls Ritchson the movie’s “runaway MVP,” singling out the joy of watching the Reacher actor “massacring bad guys with little more than his bulging muscles.” Mathai ultimately only awards the film a five out 10, however, calling it “fun, yet forgettable.”

In his review for THR, David Rooney is also somewhat lukewarm on the film, taking issue with the lack of any real tension. The proficiency of the main team and the bumbling Nazis means that “maneuvers that should be nail-biters look like a piece of cake,” he writes. Peter Debruge agrees with this sentiment about the lack of tension in his review for Variety, though he writes that “Instead of suspense, audiences feel a sense of delight in watching them succeed, no matter the setback.”

In his review for IndieWire, David Ehrlich also praises the movie’s willingness to depart from historical fact, writing that it “makes Inglourious Basterds feel like a Ken Burns documentary by comparison.” He also, however, criticizes the third act for being “so underlit that it becomes numbingly hard to tell…what our heroes are doing.” Lyvie Scott of Inverse writes that, for better or worse, the film “feels like a mishmash of Ritchie’s greatest hits.” While evidently not without flaw, those looking to watch The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare seem to be in for a fun experience.