I’m not quite sure why Guy Ritchie kinda fell off the radar for me for a bit there. Maybe it was the Madonna thing. But I guess I did see the Sherlock Holmes movies he did, and they were fun. But live-action Aladdin? Really? Will Smiff has never been bluer. But after reviewing The Gentlemen, it was a nudge to revisit some of his other less-gay movies. This one? Solid delvings into the Nazi Action flick genre.
Based on a true story, allegedly. 1942. Brings into the retelling one Ian Fleming, who was in fact a British Naval Intelligence guy, and spoiler alert, may have based one of his, uhm, notable novel characters on the Operation Postmaster lead here. Turns out Churchill needed a little help to get supplies and support from the U.S. during the war. This may have been a covert operation to help that along. Allegedly.
While not the deepest of movies, it does provide some good looks into some of the British military wartime leaderships and history, but mainly this is a straight-up action flick, with a few different wheels turning while time ticks down. It always does in a war movie, or else, you know, suspense is kinda shot. Besides lead Henry Cavill, not a lot of well-known actors (sorry Cary Elwes, almost didn’t recognize ya), this makes it a good blank slate, no tainted projections of the actors upon the characters. All are significantly adequate here. And a damn fun romp full of a lot of Nazi killings. I would say suspense too, but, well, hindsight is 20/20, at least most of us know how that one played out. The others that don’t are kinda tarded and just doomed to repeat themselves. Sad.
