The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (2024, United Kingdom)
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The Ministry of Ungentlemanly WarfareDirector: Guy Ritchie
Czas: 120 minut
Laguages: English, German, Italian
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The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare war movie
Czas: 120 minut
2024-08-17 / 2024-08-17
A small unit of British agents set out on a black-ops mission in Western Africa to eliminate a U-Boot supply ship anchored there.
In 1941, while the U-Boats were ripping apart the convoys with supplies for the United Kingdom, Brigadier Colin Gubbins came up with a plan to make their operations a bit more complicated. On an island Fernando Po, close to the western coast of Africa, Germans have created a U-Boot resupply base centred around the Italian ship Duchessa d’Aosta. The only problem is that Fernando Po is under Spanish control and Spain is officially neutral in the war. This means that the operation planned by Gubbins, while it could cut down the operational potential of U-Boots on the Atlantic, could also bring the United Kingdom to an open conflict with Spain. At this point, Britain has enough enemies to deal with, so officially the government cannot sanction such an operation, but behind the scenes, the Prime Minister Winston Churchill green-lit Operation Postmaster to be executed. The plan is simple - the discipline among crews in the base on Fernando Po is not very strict, they spend their time on the neutral ground like in a holiday camp, so Gubbins plans to use that against them. One agent, Marjorie Stewart, will travel on the train with the owner of a nightclub on Fernando Po, Heron. At the same time, the assault unit, consisting of just a few people, will travel aboard a small ship under a Swedish flag. Their goal is to sink Duchessa d’Aosta while the crew and the soldiers from the garrison will attend a party.
War movie based on a true story of Operation Postmaster, unfortunately directed and co-written by Guy Ritchie, whose best productions were films about gangsters full of cartoonish characters, like Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch or The Gentlemen. So, how he approach a true story taking place during World War 2? Of course, by introduction of cartoonish characters and turning a mildly interesting special operation into a cheap action-flick. The result? A painfully bad, childish movie that is on a verge of being called a parody or an insult towards the real people who took part in the Operation Postmaster.
Our rating
3.2
Film value
2 / 10
Realism factor
1 / 5
Adventure factor
3 / 5
Historical accuracy
2 / 5
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World War II (1936-1945) Operation Postmaster (14 Jan 1942)
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