Sunday, 7 July 2024

BITE-SIZED: Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (Guy Ritchie, 2024)




Bless Guy Ritchie. 


I am not a fan of his movies, but it is nice to see a popular filmmaker be so productive.


Buoyed by a western-style score that sounds like a remix of every Ennio Morricone score.


In a similar vein as Ritchie’s Man from UNCLEMinistry is a pastiche of men-on-a-mission movies from the fifties and sixties.


The actors seem to know it is a lark, and that is part of the problem.


It is not that tense, and there is no real sense of danger.


At 2 hrs, it is also too long. This thing needed to be 90 mins or less.


Henry Cavill might be the lead but the standout of the cast is Nu-Jack Reacher Alan Ritchson. He is legitimately great as Danish man-mountain armed with a bow and arrow.


With a more formidable antagonist and a sense of stakes, this movie might have been great. 


As is, it is an amiable time waster.


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