Film Review - The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (2024)

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is the new film by Guy Ritchie and stars Henry Cavill, Henry Golding, Alan Richson, Alex Pettifyer and Hero Fiennes Tiffin as a group of maverick officers during World War II when they are tasked to try and disrupt the Nazi strangehold on the European boats helping their troops so they can try to help and hopefully allow the Americans to enter the War on their side but such a mission will not be easy.

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is I thought a lot of fun and Guy Ritchie’s best movie in what feels like a long time, firstly the film has a breezy pace to it where it doesn’t get too long (though it drags a little bit) but it never feels like the film is cut down and certain beats feel missing, secondly the film has some good action to it especially Ritchson’s character who uses some old fashioned methods but still made me smile when he would kill people.

And this movie definitely made me think “Why isn’t Henry Cavill a bigger movie star” as he does so much to make this movie work as well as it does and his natural charm and charisma shine in every scene he’s in, where the film does drag down a little bit is when the characters played by Eiza Gonzalez and Babs Olusanmokun take a more central part in the mission and those scenes for me just kept me thinking “Bring Henry back” as they just couldn’t compete with him in terms of holding your interest.

And so that was the Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, a fun breezy romp with good action and a good cast, 3 out of 5.