GUY RITCHIE LOVES a good shoot-’em-up, and The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is no exception. The British director’s (Snatch, The Man from U.N.C.L.E.) latest movie stars Henry Cavill, Eiza González, Alan Ritchson, Henry Golding, and Alex Pettyfer in a stylish spy story about the United Kingdom’s secret mission to beat back Nazi Germany’s creeping takeover of Europe. The action comedy, out now only in theaters, doesn’t shy away from grisly violence—or laughs. It has the snappy, vicious-then-charming quality of a Quentin Tarantino film, along with plenty of Nazis who meet their rightful end. And the critics mostly like it.But what does separate Ungentlemanly Warfare from, say, Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes? Well, this one is true. Or rather, it’s (very loosely) based on the 2014 book Churchill’s Secret Warriors: The Explosive True Story of the Special Forces Desperadoes of WWII by Damien Lewis (the author, not the actor), a more faithful telling of the real-life Operation Postmaster during the Second World War.In Ritchie’s highly fictionalized take on Operation Postmaster, Cavill’s Gus March-Phillipps is called upon by the British government in Winston Churchill (Rory Kinnear) and Brigadier Gubbins (Cary Elwes) to bring together a team who then sail to the Spanish island of Fernando Po. The goal: to sink a Nazi ship with a crucial load of supplies and ammunition.Enter badasses mowing down Naz… Click below to read the full story from Men’s Health
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