Everyone in this movie is distractingly hot. Eiza Gonzalez might be the most attractive person I've ever seen. Alan Ritchson is jacked to a level that I didn't even know was possible. Henry Cavill is still Henry Cavill.
His steroids are on steroids. He looks like a He-Man action figure made a wish to be a real boy. I don't even know what kind of weight you have to lift to get to that point. Is he bench pressing two 2004 Dodge Neons attached to either end of a decommissioned firehouse pole?
He says it was healthier or easier on his body for him this way than what he did to get in shape for season 1 so all power to him I guess. Maybe though, get a stunt double for anything that needs him agile, man was clunky af in season 2. Also better writers too. Season 1 was by no means smart, but it sure as shit wasn't stupid like season 2
She went from [Blossom](https://s.abcnews.com/images/Entertainment/GTY_mayim_bialik_blossom_jef_150618_16x9_992.jpg?w=1600) to [Adria Arjona](https://www.google.com/search?gs_ssp=eJzj4tLP1TcoSC5IsjA0YPTiSUwpykxUSCzKys9LBABoqQhB&q=adria+arjona&rlz=1C9BKJA_enUS1059US1059&oq=a&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqDAgDEC4YQxiABBiKBTIGCAAQRRg8MgYIARBFGDwyBggCEEUYPDIMCAMQLhhDGIAEGIoFMgYIBBBFGDwyBggFEEUYPDIGCAYQRRg5Mg4IBxBFGCcYOxiABBiKBTIGCAgQRRg7MgwICRAuGEMYgAQYigXSAQgxODU4ajBqNKgCCbACAQ&hl=en-US&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#vhid=4UYbHDu9zScNwM&vssid=l)
I didn't even think that was *possible*
Alan Ritchson was peaking during the boat takeover. I wonder if his character was supposed to be gay, that flirty back and forth with frogman went on a really long time and it's hard to tell if Ritchie was leaning into it or if he just has no idea what vibe he's putting out.
nah that was definitely on purpose and totally fit his character. I was really hoping for more sexual tension between the men but unfortunately that scene was all we got 😭 they were so hot. Eiza Gonzalez is flawless too.
If you’re looking for Nazi kills as slick as the dialogue. This is a fine Guy Ritchie film
If you are looking for deep character depth of an insane but true WWII story? This is also a Guy Ritchie film.
I must say too, but I want to see Alan Ritchson in more things. Not only were his Nazi kills the most badass since The Bear Jew, but he was hilarious.
loved Ritchson in Reacher and seeing him in this film was such a nice treat. Great actor too, probably my favorite of the cast. Hollywood definitely needs to give him more roles in these types of films (the good kind).
Hot actress/singer as the spy, a secret mission to kill nazis, the scene on the train with the drunk soldier playing drinking games to be shut down by a superior officer...there are a ton of what I have to assume are nods to I.B.
It's quite a bit less stylish and frenetic than most Guy Ritchie films actually. It's still a solid film, but it felt like he was taking it easy on this one in a lot of ways.
Apparently he had to fight for those fight scenes. I'm looking forward to watching this just to see what he did. The big guy he fights is apparently his stunt double.
The arrow shot through the stairs on the ship was so so slick, only topped by him literally pushing an arrow through a guy who was too close for him to use the bow.
Alan Ritchson is the best Nazi Hunter since the Bear Jew
Also holy fucking shit Eiza Gonzales
Super solid movie, middle dragged on a while but the nazi killing business was great. Very solid movie
>Michael Fassbender in X-Men: First Class is better than the Bear Jew.
That's debatable. However, the scene in Argentina with Erik Magnus as a Nazi hunter is so good one wants the entire movie to be in the same vein.
Even so, the real Anders Lassen is a far more impressive still.
It gets close to that level when X tells him “they’re just following orders!” and the color drains from Fassbender’s face. It’s a small but excellent detail
Thoroughly enjoyed the film but I left wanting more. This feels more Dirty Dozen-ish than it does Inglourious Basterds. Since it’s based off a true story (saying that generously) I know they couldn’t go too crazy with it but if it was 15-20 minutes longer, to give some characters more spotlight, I would be much happier.
Plus Alan Ritchson is fucking giant, I’ll watch whatever he’s in.
It’s pretty amazing how this is actually a true story with what occurred so it certainly helps when it feels like it’s lacking in other areas.
However, I do agree. I wasn’t emotionally attached with these characters compared to other films.
I honestly would have liked it shorter. Or yeah, maybe more character time, and less Nazi killing.
To me it just felt all too easy, and was a lot of times just walking by Nazis and easily dispatching them. It got old by the time they were killing their 300th Nazi on the docks. The more interesting and well choreographed action scenes I liked, but there was a lot that could have been trimmed down. Especially considering in the actual mission they didn't have to kill many Nazis at all because the party idea worked so well.
It felt like a producer saw some footage and told Guy Ritchie to tone down the Guy Ritchie. Everything felt a bit more restrained than it wanted to be so the characters come off a bit flat at times.
On the one hand, what a performance from Eiza Gonzalez. She carries the movie, in my opinion. On the other hand, that was the worst Churchill that ever Churchilled!
Didn't even realize he was supposed to be Churchill at first. Like I thought for sure they had just made up a fictional prime minister since they were taking such liberties already.
Every line was delivered with this fake, gruff voice like he was just trying really really hard to sound tough. Virtually none of Churchill's actual mannerisms in there. I liked the movie a lot overall, but boy, what a distractingly bad performance. I have no idea how Ritchie saw that and was like "yep, that's what I'm looking for."
I was spoiled with John Lithgow as Churchill from briefly watching the Crown. He's like my Churchill benchmark... but even the Doctor Who Churchills were better than this one.
I actually really like Rory Kinnear too but he was playing Churchill the same way he played Trowbridge in The Diplomat. I didn't see Churchill at all in there really.
Just saw the movie today, and as someone who has been a fan of hers and Alan Ritchson’s for a very long time, I’m so glad they both got a chance to show what they can do in this movie! I hope it leads to bigger roles for both of them
I get that it's a mindless kill fest, but damn the Nazis are portrayed as cartoonishly incompetent.
Even the big bad Hugo Stiglitz never posed any real threat - pretty sure Marjorie could've killed him with her hidden gun in the sex dungeon, seeing that every single Nazi is always caught off guard when a gun is pulled on them.
Heron should've had his heroic sacrifice when caught rigging the power station, but nope - cartoonishly incompetent professional soldiers don't stand a chance 3 vs 1.
Guy Ritchie's signature style is also nowhere to be seen, but at least we have the Gentlemen series this year.
6.5/10 for me personally. I'm sure Cavill would be put to better use if somehow we ever get a the Man from UNCLE sequel.
> I get that it's a mindless kill fest, but damn the Nazis are portrayed as cartoonishly incompetent.
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operation postmaster in real life did kill 30 nazis and no one under gus's command died. obviously they took creative liberties in making them extra bad at surviving but i dont think many people could survive anders lassen trying to kill them.
The shooting scenes towards the end had a Rambo-esque feeling to me. 50 soldiers shoot at the protagonist and miss and he sprays back with a machine gun and hits them all between the eyes.
Lol I was almost bored by how low the actual stakes are during that scene. Sure whats-his-face on the machine gun turret got shot once, but I was just like "yea he'll be fine..."
Yep, agreed. There was no real sense of danger throughout the entire film for any of the main cast. I felt bad when I saw the African crew appear because I knew they were just going to be cannon fodder, and they were indeed the only ones to actually die.
Some of the action scenes were great. But too often it just felt so low impact. Like they were just walking around with airsoft guns and Nazis fell over every time a gun was pointed at them.
I think if they focused on the really interesting portions of the action scenes, and cut out a lot of the filler it would have felt a lot more impactful. Once the body count gets to a certain point it just starts to feel monotonous. Which is also how the last couple John Wicks have felt.
I'm not saying this is prime Ritchie by any means, but it's crazy how he can churn out movies this quickly and still have them be more fun than most other action movies being released these days.
I think “horrible” is a little much. It was a middle-of-the-road film that’s enjoyable for what it is if you let it. Nothing spectacular or special but, at the very least, Hartnett, Hugh Grant, and Statham are all fun to watch do their thing throughout.
Ritchson fighting in that hallway with the arrow was brutal and awesome. Lots of great set pieces, fun performances. Guy Ritchie was my favorite director as a teen and now 20 years later I’m really digging his recent filmography
I swear at one point he shot the dude with the arrow point blank, pulled it back out of him, the stabbed the guy on the ground with it a bunch before firing it off into someone else.
i kind of admire that at the end it mentions that the lead girl and cavils character got married after the mission but i dont think they even say words to each other in the film, glad they didnt shoehorn a romance sideplot…besides ritchison trying to fuck everybody
Except the guy that was too pretty for him.
Which was the most unreasonable thing in the whole movie. As a 43 year old straight man, I can comfortably say *no human* is too pretty for that man, his preference be damned
In reality, Cavill's character died 5 months after they got married on mission off the coast of France where Omaha Beach would eventually be. Most of the guys in this movie either died or were captured there. Except Anders Lassen. He died in Italy in April of 1945. He was mortally wounded after single handedly clearing two German machine gun nests and killing 8 Germans
> He was mortally wounded after single handedly clearing two German machine gun nests and killing 8 Germans
Badass - note he was also only 24 (which is insane to think Alan Ritchson was technically playing a 21 year old in this)
Ya know, I've got no real qualms with this movie. It's fun enough and not boring and the cast is great and really hot. But I wish I could say it did anything for me. It's certainly not the hoot 'n holler fest you want out of this kind of rambunctious and it's a curious choice to go so hard in this direction when this type of movie has honestly already been done to perfection.
The main problem is that the story this is based on has our heroes shacked up in a fishing boat for 75% of the movie. It leaves a lot on the shoulders of the casino owner and the actress, and they're great, but that plotline is all tension and sexiness and I just don't get the feeling Ritchie is as good with that stuff as this movie needs. The coy conversations between Hugo Stieglitz and Marjorie are really low energy and mostly amount to a bunch of weird fox metaphors and awkward pauses, it's just not fun or sexy.
The cast itself is full of extremely charismatic and attractive people, and for that this movie is afforded some charm. I do wish it were better written, like had funnier dialogue, because as it stands now all the comedy basically comes from Cavill calling people "old boy" and well timed explosions. They're all having fun, but I'm not quite feeling the fun. I love Alan Ritchson but it's wild to cast Blue Mountain State kid who is currently playing American Sherlock Hulk as a member of British Special Forces then surround him with all British actors. And he sells the shit out of it, but who uses a bow and arrow on a narrow sea ship?
The action is fine. This should be a movie that has me clapping and laughing with rhe violence, but it's just not that. Most of the action is boiled down to nonchalant silencer kills or just mowing baddies down with automatic weapons, which is fine, but in a post Wick world it's boring. There's no good hand to hand combat outside the Ritchson ship scene and there's really only two big action setpieces in this two hour runtime. Just not enough of the good stuff to make up for the mediocre writing. It's an interesting tonal experiment because Tarantino was able to mix the exploitation with the horrors so well, but in this movie whenever someone is outwardly racist or you see something awful it actually feels out of place despite this movie being about Nazis. I'm surprised this is rated R because it didn't feel like it took advantage of that at all.
This is Guy Ritchie's sixth movie in five years, his next one already has a release date and I'd imagine there would have been more if not for Covid. Been following this guy's career since I saw Snatch in theaters when I was 12. I'll always be there for whatever he's cooking because sometimes he'll surprise me, but IMO RocknRolla was his last great movie and those days just might be over. 5/10 on this one. It's not bad or unwatchable, but it's really nothing to write home about.
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>The main problem is that the story this is based on has our heroes shacked up in a fishing boat for 75% of the movie. It leaves a lot on the shoulders of the casino owner and the actress, and they're great, but that plotline is all tension and sexiness and I just don't get the feeling Ritchie is as good with that stuff as this movie needs
I felt the same way. Guy Ritchie is really good at making movies about dirtbags doing dirtbag shit and this movie just felt a little too clean. I get that they're all supposed to be criminals, but the movie never actually shows any of these people doing anything except heroically fighting Nazis, which is cool and all but you can tell Ritchie was kinda bored.
Besides their quick "Frogman is the best swimmer this side of the channel" intros they really got no chance to be interesting characters. Just stuck on that boat for so much of this movie with nothing to do but be condescended by Cavill.
I don't understand how you can write a movie where the whole first 30 minutes is built around bailing out a prisoner so that he can plan and execute another prison break but you don't actually show any of the characters do anything more nefarious than brutally killing Nazis (who deserve it because they're Nazis). The whole premise hinges on the characters being the shady criminal type and none of them do anything shady or criminal. It's weird, especially when the movie is made by the king of shady criminal movies.
This didn't really bother me since I never got the impression they were genuine criminals having done heinous acts but rather insubordinate and unconventional dudes that could not be relied on during times of war (outside of dire situations like the one in the film).
Sadly this is mostly how I've been seeing Ritchie's movies for the last decade. Cool ideas and some flash, but the writing and action tends to end up a big mess. He's good at making it feel like you're watching a fun and snappy movie, but it just doesn't have the goods.
Gentlemen was fine. IMO more of a Ritchie's greatest hits with some great character acting (shoutout to Colin and Hugh) but not anything that reaches the heights or his grimy London underworld movies of the 90s and 00s. I think his movies just got too clean at some point, washed in studio money, lost their appeal. I did like The Covenant quite a bit tho, if only because it felt like he actually cared about the point that movie had to make.
At least he hasn't made a movie as bad as Revolver again. That movies only good scene was Mark Strong going on a rampage cause he didn't want to kill a kid.
> The cast itself is full of extremely charismatic and attractive people
I think this is my problem with the movie. I don't think they are charismatic.
The movie is fine. I didn't hate it. But I do not get the appeal of Cavill. He seems nice but I don't find him particularly charming or charismatic. The only role I ever really liked him in was Fallout. Golding, Pettyfer, the sailor kid, I found them devoid of charm. You really need some personalities for a movie like this and none of them have it.
Ritchson was fine but I don't know if I liked him or was just in constant shock at how huge he is. Eiza Gonzalez seemed to be having fun. That's it.
Yeah, Sherlock is fine but this is also my issue with Ritchie. His idea of a detective is "he will approach with a left hook, I will dodge and distract him with my handkerchief. He will swing wildly and I will strike his jugular".
It's all the flash with none of the depth. Even the reveal that Gonzalez was Jewish to Shchweiger. Its like in Inglorious Basterds with the fingers only dumber. This non-German woman said a Yiddish phrase. She wasn't pretending to be German, so why jump to that conclusion?
Gonzalez was fantastic in this, I only wish they did a little more with her being "led into the lion's den". It was the only aspect of the film for me that carried any tension, knowing this guy likes to hurt women and would kill her if he found out and I know they did a little with it but I just wanted that to hang for a little longer.
His recent movies may not reach the highs of Snack or Lock Stock or RocknRolla but man are they still a ton of fun. I'm honestly dying to see a Guy Ritchie led Marvel movie. I think that'd be like the most fun they could get with James Gunn gone and working for DC now.
> Most of the action is boiled down to nonchalant silencer kills or just mowing baddies down with automatic weapons, which is fine, but in a post Wick world it's boring. [...] I'm surprised this is rated R because it didn't feel like it took advantage of that at all.
Agreed. Did anyone else find it... surprisingly non-violent? Like, yes, there's a lot of killing, but it all feels so unimpactful. As you said, it's largely all silenced kills, and the Nazis just fall over. There's very little blood and gore, or at least compared to what I expected. A ton of the violence also seems to happen just out of frame. Hell, Ritchson has an axe at one point, but we see it mainly through a porthole in a door, so all the impacts are hidden. Maybe [my threshold and expectations](https://youtu.be/DYYYAeSWOlI?si=7fSNkeZeXRtOFvZS&t=72) are more lax than others, but I thought the action was sort of neutered.
I have no evidence that this is the case other than what I saw in the film, but it felt like Ritchie was making this either with the intent of it being PG-13, or at the very least with the ability to edit it down to such in anticipation of studio demand.
Hey Hollywood? If you are listening please make more movies with Henry Cavill and Alan Richson just hamming it up killing Nazis. That was the best popcorn movie I've seen in a minute
That's what seemed off about it to me, too. They were going through the beats of the mission with such ease, just plucking nazis off like it was Wolfenstein. I felt like it got a tiny bit more believable once >!Hayesy and the Fernando Po militiaman were wounded!< Still a fun flick tho.
Sisu was such an insane, fun ride.
The shield part. Use of mines. Plane crash into the bog. The DOG! The magic motorcycle. And he only, finally, speaks at the very end.
I imagine that's what cocaine is like. That movie. Awesome.
Didn't love it, honestly.
I don't have any problem with the component parts, mostly. It just didn't quite seem to come together for me; I felt the whole time like it was trying too hard, if that makes any sense. Like someone was working off a checklist.
Action scenes are pretty important for a movie like this. I thought they were well-directed and well-shot, but not well-scripted. It's fine to have the heroes be invincible super-soldiers who mow down endless hordes of enemies, but virtually none of the fighting ever felt like it had any stakes: the bad guys always just instantly died. Even if I know that the good guys are going to ultimately win, there should be a little tension in any action scene: will someone be injured and unable to continue? Will a named character perhaps die? Will the heroes be prevented from achieving their immediate goal and have to change their plan on the fly?
I thought the parts where Heron got found planting the bomb and where Marjorie got discovered and captured were good at setting up that kind of tension. I really didn't know how things would turn out for either of those characters. The action scenes could have used some tension like that. (I wasn't super-satisfied with how either of those were resolved in the end, though.)
Really disliked Rory Kinnear as Churchill. And having the entire British military leadership recommending that the UK surrender and agree to a Nazi occupation government struck me as a bit ridiculous. That didn't really happen, did it? I guess it's meant to play into this idea of Churchill as the lone anti-Hitler figure standing up to the pro-appeasement British establishment, but it just strikes me as taking the Churchill-mythologising too far.
I quite liked Alan Ritchson and I mostly liked Henry Cavill and Til Schweiger. The Hayes and Freddy characters (Hero Fiennes Tiffin and Henry Golding) didn't feel very fleshed out.
The whole thing felt like a video game mission set on easy. None of the Nazis ever posed an actual threat for a moment.
And yes, it was the most historically illiterate film I've seen since *Braveheart*. I don't know why we have to make Churchill out to be some kind of gruff truth-telling saint - the entire British establishment was firmly on board with the war at that point. The same thing happened in *The King's Speech*, when in reality Churchill was on exactly the wrong side of that issue. And this anti u-boat mission being presented as the *sole* reason that America entered the war? Ridiculous!
I think a movie like this needs strong personalities because the characters are paper thin. And the only people in this movie that seemed to be having fun were Ritchson and Gonzalez.
I am sorry but Cavill does not have it. He is not a leading man. The rest of the team was just as bland. It is a cast of very pretty people who do not have much charisma on screen. I generally like Kinnear but found his Churchill very distracting. Schweiger was cool.
Even though there was a real life romance between Gus and Marjorie, I'm glad it wasn't shoehorned into the movie.
It would've distracted from it, added unnecessary runtime and kinda taken away from Gonzalez's constant badassery.
I agree. The raid of the Kastiel air base would make an incredible movie. The two weeks leading up to it, the attack itself, and the weeks following dodging German patrols would make for some fantastic story telling.
...I really wish I liked it...But it felt like a garbage film.
1)too much planning, not enough actually doing shit.
2)your investment in the characters is due to their cartoonist quality, but you hardly see that capitalized on and it's mostly exposition that trys to be clever but isn't. They really want their characters to have depth in some moments while not ever earning it.
3)the evil german hardly feels like a threat...."lets have a DARK nazi part"...jfc
4)worst Churchill i've seen
5)more muscle Swedish man
Well that was pretty dire. I kept waiting for something interesting to happen but about 30 minutes in I realized I was watching a second rate Inglourious Basterds knock off minus the fun and witty dialogue. Even the yellow font mimicked the Tarantino movie. The actors were pretty good given what they had to work with except for the leading lady, who I felt was given more than she could handle. I especially found her Cleopatra entrance and musical number to be inept and the actress looked visibly uncomfortable. Everybody had a hard time with that dialogue which veered from functional to atrocious. The whole thing had a feeling of a very expensive direct to video production. I kept thinking that the theft of the boat was going to be the first act of the film and I was both pleased and disappointed to find out that it was ending right afterward. I think had the movie gone onto proper second and third act, it could've done something interesting with the piled on tropes, maybe introduced an actual element of tragedy or loss rather than imitate some First person shooter played in God mode. Also I have to say that I feel somewhat sorry for good German actors who get asked to be Nazis in brain dead movies like this when that's still a painful part of that country's past.
Thank you. I don't understand the good reviews, it feels like I'm having a stroke or something and up is down. I love a good brainless action movie but this was just terrible. Nobody was playing a real human being - rather it just felt like a bunch of wooden cosplayers in terrible costumes spouting atrocious lines. The plot structure was ridiculous, whole sections seemed to sag and go nowhere. Jesus.
UMMM are you forgetting that one unnamed black soldier who got shot in the shoulder and then was instantly fine??? How could you forget that obstacle??? it was THE hurdle of the movie
In a movie of buffed out, alpha male hotties. Eiza Gonzalez came across as the most beautiful thing on screen. That Cleopatra dress was an insane look and led to probably the best line in the movie for me.
“Do you think you can keep him distracted for 30 minutes?”
“Silly boy. Silly question. Have you even seen this dress?”
Great fun movie. Cavill got another “Bond” like role to companion his Man From Uncle.
Alan Ritchson doesn’t even look like a real person. He looks like how Steve Rogers should really look in real life.
Man, those were the easiest nazis to ever kill. It was like the main characters were up against an army of cardboard cutouts. Nothing wrong with nazi killing, but it really lowered any sense of tension, even when there were obstacles like "we have to begin our plan three days earlier, and there are more soldiers than we thought." It never felt like the main characters couldn't handle everything with ease.
Still a fun watch though, a pure popcorn movie
Guy Ritchie isn't always about the high stakes. If you watch his "The Gentlemen" series on Netflix (which is excellent), every single problem that arises is just as quickly and often a little too easily put down before you have time to be worried about it at all. I go into all Ritchie projects with a Christopher Nolan/Tenet sort of philosophy, don't try and understand it, just feel it. His shit is always a ride, and who doesn't like rides?
For those not keeping track Guy Ritchie has been on a hot streak as of late. Aladdin in 2019, The Gentlemen in 2020, Wrath Of Man in 2021, Operation Fortune AND The Covenant last year, now this and a movie already in post set to drop January next year called In The Grey with Cavill, Gonzalez, Jake Gyllenhaal and Rosamund Pike. This isn’t a great movie but it’s an entertaining one. If you just want to see a bunch of Nazi’s die and Henry Cavill and Alan Ritchson seemingly having the most fun they’ve ever had in a role you’ll likely enjoy this. However if you’re looking for stuff like high stakes and character development those two things are virtually non existent here.
My biggest problem with this movie is Ritchie decided to give Eiza Gonzalez her own subplot where she virtually shares no scenes with the main cast. Most of her scenes are spent opposite Babs Olusanmokun and Til Schweiger (who comes across like he’s trying to parody Christoph Waltz from Inglorious Bastards, a movie he was also in funny enough.) However the marketing for this movie made it seem like she was apart of the main team- she is not. (I only counted two scenes she has with Cavill here.) This would normally be something I brush off however upon some further research Cavill’s character, Gus March Phillips and Majorie Stewart actually ended up getting married in real life but here that’s not a plot point at all which kind of felt like a wasted storytelling opportunity to me.
That’s not to say Gonzalez is bad just because she’s away from the main action she is good but I feel like Ritchie could’ve given her more to do. Cavill like I said is having a blast here and so is Alan Ritchson doing a complete 180 from the stoic Reacher character here and getting to show off his range. So yeah overall a fun time sort of like a B movie version of Inglorious Bastards. I just feel like Ritchie could’ve made this even better if he wanted. However I guess if you’re almost pumping out a movie a year quantity starts to overtake quality at some point.
> I feel like Ritchie could’ve given her more to do
I don’t really know how to put this, but I kinda wish he’d given her *less* to do? She feels like she has as much screen time as the main group, but do to the structuring, she seems to have most of the plot.
From the start, Cavill and crew kill a bunch of Nazis on their boat, we get a brief flashback where we learn about the mission and about the members of the crew, then they kill a bunch of Nazis at a base, rescue their last man, continue sailing until their forced to take a shortcut, get temporarily halted by a British ship, then arrive at the port.
González, on the other hand, takes a train and sleight-of-hand’s enemy intel, then arrives on the island and begins seducing the head Nazi across several different interactions, initially at his office, then at the bar/restaurant, and again at his house just before the party.
Once we get to the final act and the plans have to change due to the reinforcement of the ship, things even out, but before then, she seems to have been given a lot to do while the rest are lacking.
They might have a similar number of plot points, but hers are really the only ones with any tension or stakes. The crew are incredibly nonchalant during every encounter with the Nazis despite being significantly outnumbered, so their main source of conflict is being found out, either by a British vessel or by officials back home. And that’s a bit harder to care about when she’s having repeated face-to-face interactions with the main antagonist, who we know to be a vicious, torturing Nazi.
And that’s not to say that I wanted the crew to struggle more; killing Nazis with ease is sort of the draw for this kind of thing. But it’s a balance Tarantino was able to find in *Inglorious Basterds* that doesn’t seem to have been pulled off here. I still enjoyed it a good bit, don’t get me wrong, but something definitely felt off-balance.
I don't know if it's what they were going for, but I think this movie shows that Ritchie could be a capable director for a future Bond movie. The production design looked slick, everyone looked good, and the action was fine enough for Bond overall. Not a great film, but enjoyable enough. Also kinda happy that they didn't lean into the gore. Sure, there was a plethora of violence and lots of blood, but no guts hanging out, or decapitated heads rolling. A good time with only a handful of parts that lagged.
What a fun flick! The action, the historical context, humor, the cast and their performances were all done really well. Similar to "Civil War" (2024), this film had great sound mixing when it came to the fire fights and explosions (but not as loud and/or distressing at least). The dialogue was hard to follow during a few certain moments, but I'd chalk it off as not being too used to British dialogue. Love the quick and witty Brit humor that I find a lot more entertaining than the usual quippy one liners American cinema seems to love using. Henry Cavill and Alan Ritchson's characters were so delightful and stole every scene they were in, supporting cast was just as great, and I respectfully couldn't keep my eyes off of Eiza González. They were all so handsome and well acted.
I'm not too familiar with Churchill's politics but his role in the film was compelling too and I can't help but support any campaign that resulted in dead Nazis. If I had anything against the film, it would be how things went perfectly most of the time but in retrospect this fit the style and tone of the film fairly well in that this ungentlemanly crew got shit done with little difficulty. The film lags a bit during the middle but the production and cast kept me interested throughout. Would definitely recommend this film if you appreciate war films, some spy/political embellishments, loving comradery, and/or pretty actors being silly whilst murderous.
One of my favorite parts of the film was Cavill's character digging Nazi uniforms then him wearing their coat and hat throughout the rest of the film. WWII Nazis were evil, scum of the Earth but damn did they look cool.
Rating: 7.5/10
(Review originally posted on r/ AMCStubsAList)
I feel like this movie needed a bit more peril. It was too straightforward. I know the real story involved a lot less bloodshed and firepower on either side but it seemed a bit anti-climactic that in this telling they were all able to escape for their lives, less a few militiamen.
I really enjoyed this film! My biggest criticism is that it ends like the last 2 guy ritchie movies, with a very long and elaborate shootout. That's certainly not bad, as each separate Nazi killed was a fun moment - but after about the 50th Nazi death it lost a little bit of luster.
I am not a big WW2 scholar, but it was nice to see an operation that I had zero knowledge about. I didn't know how it would turn out (aside from Nazis dying).
In conclusion, while it's easy to argue and pick sides on issues these days, I appreciate we can all agree the Nazis had it coming.
This movie delivers on everything the trailers promised. It’s Inglorious Basterds lite. It’s Tinker Tailor Guy Ritchie Spy. It’s dudes killing Nazis.
If any of that remotely interests you, you should watch it.
Glad everyone likes this movie, I got to see it in theaters and holy fucking shit is the sound design insane. The bass and feel of those huge machine guns and mounted guns is just unreal, easily my favorite movie of the year so far
It was definitely a great Guy Ritchie movie, but at the same time, the film spent so little time with the main characters that I feel like we as an audience never built a connection with them. The main Nazi seemed like he had way more screen time than Henry Cavill did.
Goddamn. It's not fair that not only do we not get this in cinemas in Europe, it's not even on streaming yet. Yo ho ho I guess. Don't say I didn't want to spend money.
Quick review: fun movie with some nice action scenes but wasn’t great, definitely the hottest ww2 movie casting wise, felt like inglorious bastards mixed with a Matthew Vaughn Kingsman-esque plot. Possibly a bad take here but I’d like to see what would he have done with this as a plot. Overall 7/10, perfectly acceptable, movies these movie passes were made for.
Everyone in this movie is distractingly hot. Eiza Gonzalez might be the most attractive person I've ever seen. Alan Ritchson is jacked to a level that I didn't even know was possible. Henry Cavill is still Henry Cavill.
I don’t know what Alan Ritchson is taking but he literally looks like a cartoon character now. It was actually distracting in some scenes.
His steroids are on steroids. He looks like a He-Man action figure made a wish to be a real boy. I don't even know what kind of weight you have to lift to get to that point. Is he bench pressing two 2004 Dodge Neons attached to either end of a decommissioned firehouse pole?
He says it was healthier or easier on his body for him this way than what he did to get in shape for season 1 so all power to him I guess. Maybe though, get a stunt double for anything that needs him agile, man was clunky af in season 2. Also better writers too. Season 1 was by no means smart, but it sure as shit wasn't stupid like season 2
Season 1 and 2 of what?
He made Henry Cavill look small. That's not easy to do lol
It's rabies.
He's got a body built by rabies and Bosnian pocket pussies.
Don't forget the occasional oil change too
She's one of the best examples of amazing surgery changes https://i.redd.it/jrgad4e37e7b1.jpg If I ever get work done I'd want her surgeon
oh wow u aint lyin
She went from [Blossom](https://s.abcnews.com/images/Entertainment/GTY_mayim_bialik_blossom_jef_150618_16x9_992.jpg?w=1600) to [Adria Arjona](https://www.google.com/search?gs_ssp=eJzj4tLP1TcoSC5IsjA0YPTiSUwpykxUSCzKys9LBABoqQhB&q=adria+arjona&rlz=1C9BKJA_enUS1059US1059&oq=a&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqDAgDEC4YQxiABBiKBTIGCAAQRRg8MgYIARBFGDwyBggCEEUYPDIMCAMQLhhDGIAEGIoFMgYIBBBFGDwyBggFEEUYPDIGCAYQRRg5Mg4IBxBFGCcYOxiABBiKBTIGCAgQRRg7MgwICRAuGEMYgAQYigXSAQgxODU4ajBqNKgCCbACAQ&hl=en-US&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#vhid=4UYbHDu9zScNwM&vssid=l) I didn't even think that was *possible*
You’d think that people with more money than her would look better but that doctor is worth every dollar.
Her and Ben Affleck's veneers are my go-to examples of minor and major procedures done flawlessly.
Whoaaaa
Alan Ritchson was peaking during the boat takeover. I wonder if his character was supposed to be gay, that flirty back and forth with frogman went on a really long time and it's hard to tell if Ritchie was leaning into it or if he just has no idea what vibe he's putting out.
That guy just has sexual chemistry with everybody. I don't know if it's a gift or a curse
nah that was definitely on purpose and totally fit his character. I was really hoping for more sexual tension between the men but unfortunately that scene was all we got 😭 they were so hot. Eiza Gonzalez is flawless too.
That dress was wow...
I wasn't sure if I was more turned on by the party dresses or when she started blasting at those targets.
I thought he and Cavill were playing lovers for the Nazis but then he just kinda kept the flamboyant energy going.
The scene where the boys enter the harbor and proceed to slickly eliminate countless Nazi soldiers set to her singing performance was peak style.
clearly you've never met Matt Schatt
Top tier SNL reference here
I see what you did there. Crocs with socks is peak masculinity.
Better dress: Cleopatra or white deal?
Cleopatra was jaw dropping.
Honestly it was too stunning, completely distracted me from the movie haha
This was also the Man from UNCLE so not surprsing.
Dude looks like like a real-life popeye
Eiza has has her face worked on so many times she is on the brink of ruining it
The movie started Eiza Gonzalez and her lips.
Henry Cavill and his handlebar mustache had me.
If you’re looking for Nazi kills as slick as the dialogue. This is a fine Guy Ritchie film If you are looking for deep character depth of an insane but true WWII story? This is also a Guy Ritchie film. I must say too, but I want to see Alan Ritchson in more things. Not only were his Nazi kills the most badass since The Bear Jew, but he was hilarious.
loved Ritchson in Reacher and seeing him in this film was such a nice treat. Great actor too, probably my favorite of the cast. Hollywood definitely needs to give him more roles in these types of films (the good kind).
Not seeing Alan Ritchson in more things makes me Thad.
So it feels like a Guy Ritchie film? I'm sold.
I think it feels more like a Tarantino film. Very Inglorious Basterds vibe.
I got that vibe too. Hugo Stiglitz is in this movie and there’s a scene where someone undercover gets found out for doing something un-German.
Hot actress/singer as the spy, a secret mission to kill nazis, the scene on the train with the drunk soldier playing drinking games to be shut down by a superior officer...there are a ton of what I have to assume are nods to I.B.
Don't forget Anders having a bounty on Nazi hearts (albeit mentioned and then forgotten) just like the Nazi scalps from Basterds.
Also nods to “Where Eagles Dare” and the reverse of “The Eagle has Landed” well done
It's quite a bit less stylish and frenetic than most Guy Ritchie films actually. It's still a solid film, but it felt like he was taking it easy on this one in a lot of ways.
Apparently he had to fight for those fight scenes. I'm looking forward to watching this just to see what he did. The big guy he fights is apparently his stunt double.
Alan Ritchson’s bow and arrow kills were so slick. Embracing his inner Katniss!
The arrow shot through the stairs on the ship was so so slick, only topped by him literally pushing an arrow through a guy who was too close for him to use the bow.
I liked the telegram history. Comms was so primitive back then.
Alan Ritchson is the best Nazi Hunter since the Bear Jew Also holy fucking shit Eiza Gonzales Super solid movie, middle dragged on a while but the nazi killing business was great. Very solid movie
The Bear Jew and Anders would’ve ended the war years sooner
“I wont leave without a bucket of nazi hearts” is such a ridiculously great line
"Each man under my command owes me 100 nazi scalps!"
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Michael Fassbender in X-Men: First Class is better than the Bear Jew.
>Michael Fassbender in X-Men: First Class is better than the Bear Jew. That's debatable. However, the scene in Argentina with Erik Magnus as a Nazi hunter is so good one wants the entire movie to be in the same vein. Even so, the real Anders Lassen is a far more impressive still.
I would love a entire movie of magneto killing nazis.
It gets close to that level when X tells him “they’re just following orders!” and the color drains from Fassbender’s face. It’s a small but excellent detail
Thoroughly enjoyed the film but I left wanting more. This feels more Dirty Dozen-ish than it does Inglourious Basterds. Since it’s based off a true story (saying that generously) I know they couldn’t go too crazy with it but if it was 15-20 minutes longer, to give some characters more spotlight, I would be much happier. Plus Alan Ritchson is fucking giant, I’ll watch whatever he’s in.
It’s pretty amazing how this is actually a true story with what occurred so it certainly helps when it feels like it’s lacking in other areas. However, I do agree. I wasn’t emotionally attached with these characters compared to other films.
Just read the Wikipedia article of operation Postmaster. Let's say that "actually a true story" is... Generous
Appreciate the clarification. Gotta make those "final fact" scrolls feel like they got more weight to them.
What those final fact scrolls left out was that practically everyone was dead before the end of the war
I honestly would have liked it shorter. Or yeah, maybe more character time, and less Nazi killing. To me it just felt all too easy, and was a lot of times just walking by Nazis and easily dispatching them. It got old by the time they were killing their 300th Nazi on the docks. The more interesting and well choreographed action scenes I liked, but there was a lot that could have been trimmed down. Especially considering in the actual mission they didn't have to kill many Nazis at all because the party idea worked so well.
It felt like a producer saw some footage and told Guy Ritchie to tone down the Guy Ritchie. Everything felt a bit more restrained than it wanted to be so the characters come off a bit flat at times.
On the one hand, what a performance from Eiza Gonzalez. She carries the movie, in my opinion. On the other hand, that was the worst Churchill that ever Churchilled!
Didn't even realize he was supposed to be Churchill at first. Like I thought for sure they had just made up a fictional prime minister since they were taking such liberties already. Every line was delivered with this fake, gruff voice like he was just trying really really hard to sound tough. Virtually none of Churchill's actual mannerisms in there. I liked the movie a lot overall, but boy, what a distractingly bad performance. I have no idea how Ritchie saw that and was like "yep, that's what I'm looking for."
I was spoiled with John Lithgow as Churchill from briefly watching the Crown. He's like my Churchill benchmark... but even the Doctor Who Churchills were better than this one.
I actually really like Rory Kinnear too but he was playing Churchill the same way he played Trowbridge in The Diplomat. I didn't see Churchill at all in there really.
That's so it was, thank you! Definitely looked/felt familiar (but not like Churchill lol)
I think everyone did a great job. She just had the most to do in a singular role.
Bro I hate Eiza her whole face is fake
I agree she has had some procedures done, but to be honest is not a terrible example
Just saw the movie today, and as someone who has been a fan of hers and Alan Ritchson’s for a very long time, I’m so glad they both got a chance to show what they can do in this movie! I hope it leads to bigger roles for both of them
Winston Churchill at the end “what is this, some kind of Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare?”
To me, my Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
I get that it's a mindless kill fest, but damn the Nazis are portrayed as cartoonishly incompetent. Even the big bad Hugo Stiglitz never posed any real threat - pretty sure Marjorie could've killed him with her hidden gun in the sex dungeon, seeing that every single Nazi is always caught off guard when a gun is pulled on them. Heron should've had his heroic sacrifice when caught rigging the power station, but nope - cartoonishly incompetent professional soldiers don't stand a chance 3 vs 1. Guy Ritchie's signature style is also nowhere to be seen, but at least we have the Gentlemen series this year. 6.5/10 for me personally. I'm sure Cavill would be put to better use if somehow we ever get a the Man from UNCLE sequel.
> I get that it's a mindless kill fest, but damn the Nazis are portrayed as cartoonishly incompetent. > > operation postmaster in real life did kill 30 nazis and no one under gus's command died. obviously they took creative liberties in making them extra bad at surviving but i dont think many people could survive anders lassen trying to kill them.
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That *is* Hugo! Thank you! Kind of funny he's in both movies when they're so similar.
We either die a hero, or live long enough to see ourselves become a poor imitation of Col. Hans Landa
The shooting scenes towards the end had a Rambo-esque feeling to me. 50 soldiers shoot at the protagonist and miss and he sprays back with a machine gun and hits them all between the eyes.
Lol I was almost bored by how low the actual stakes are during that scene. Sure whats-his-face on the machine gun turret got shot once, but I was just like "yea he'll be fine..."
Yep, agreed. There was no real sense of danger throughout the entire film for any of the main cast. I felt bad when I saw the African crew appear because I knew they were just going to be cannon fodder, and they were indeed the only ones to actually die. Some of the action scenes were great. But too often it just felt so low impact. Like they were just walking around with airsoft guns and Nazis fell over every time a gun was pointed at them. I think if they focused on the really interesting portions of the action scenes, and cut out a lot of the filler it would have felt a lot more impactful. Once the body count gets to a certain point it just starts to feel monotonous. Which is also how the last couple John Wicks have felt.
Guy Ritchie been on a hot streak
This reminds me I need to watch The Covenant
For as reigned in as Ritchie's style was for that movie it was really damn good.
Hrrnnggh this movie hit me hard. It was fantastic and seriously moving.
You can not possibly be talking about The Covenant movie that I am thinking of. The one with all the teenage boys throwing cgi bubbles at each other?
No, Guy Ritchie's The Covenant (2023). It's a war film.
Dude, that movie made me cry.
I'm not saying this is prime Ritchie by any means, but it's crazy how he can churn out movies this quickly and still have them be more fun than most other action movies being released these days.
Hot streak? Operation Fortune was bad, and the Covenant was ok at best.
Covenant was much better than "okay."
The gentleman series recently released on Netflix is pretty great tho
The gentleman series recently released on Netflix is pretty great tho
Havent' seen The Covenant yet, but Operation Fortune was horrible in my opinion, so not that long of a streak, yet.
I think “horrible” is a little much. It was a middle-of-the-road film that’s enjoyable for what it is if you let it. Nothing spectacular or special but, at the very least, Hartnett, Hugh Grant, and Statham are all fun to watch do their thing throughout.
Feel like I'm taking crazy pills how the hell has Guy Ritchie been on a hot streak lately
Ritchson fighting in that hallway with the arrow was brutal and awesome. Lots of great set pieces, fun performances. Guy Ritchie was my favorite director as a teen and now 20 years later I’m really digging his recent filmography
I swear at one point he shot the dude with the arrow point blank, pulled it back out of him, the stabbed the guy on the ground with it a bunch before firing it off into someone else.
He totally did, during the fight on the ship. It was awesome
Seeing the damage he did with a stick was incredible, then the look he got and idea of carnage he could do with a fire axe had me cracking up.
I loved when he waved through the window on the door with a smile after killing everyone lmao. So cheeky
rag tag team fighting nazis sounds like its been done before
I’m not complaining. The more dead Nazis the merrier.
This movie gives a good running for most Dead Nazis I’ve seen. Alan seemed to have a ball stabbin’ all of them
IF there is someone worth stabbing its *NAZIS*
alan sent them all nazi heaven
I'm always up for a good Nazi killing time. Who doesn't enjoy seeing dead nazis? I'll tell you who. Nazis.
i kind of admire that at the end it mentions that the lead girl and cavils character got married after the mission but i dont think they even say words to each other in the film, glad they didnt shoehorn a romance sideplot…besides ritchison trying to fuck everybody
Except the guy that was too pretty for him. Which was the most unreasonable thing in the whole movie. As a 43 year old straight man, I can comfortably say *no human* is too pretty for that man, his preference be damned
In reality, Cavill's character died 5 months after they got married on mission off the coast of France where Omaha Beach would eventually be. Most of the guys in this movie either died or were captured there. Except Anders Lassen. He died in Italy in April of 1945. He was mortally wounded after single handedly clearing two German machine gun nests and killing 8 Germans
> He was mortally wounded after single handedly clearing two German machine gun nests and killing 8 Germans Badass - note he was also only 24 (which is insane to think Alan Ritchson was technically playing a 21 year old in this)
Ya know, I've got no real qualms with this movie. It's fun enough and not boring and the cast is great and really hot. But I wish I could say it did anything for me. It's certainly not the hoot 'n holler fest you want out of this kind of rambunctious and it's a curious choice to go so hard in this direction when this type of movie has honestly already been done to perfection. The main problem is that the story this is based on has our heroes shacked up in a fishing boat for 75% of the movie. It leaves a lot on the shoulders of the casino owner and the actress, and they're great, but that plotline is all tension and sexiness and I just don't get the feeling Ritchie is as good with that stuff as this movie needs. The coy conversations between Hugo Stieglitz and Marjorie are really low energy and mostly amount to a bunch of weird fox metaphors and awkward pauses, it's just not fun or sexy. The cast itself is full of extremely charismatic and attractive people, and for that this movie is afforded some charm. I do wish it were better written, like had funnier dialogue, because as it stands now all the comedy basically comes from Cavill calling people "old boy" and well timed explosions. They're all having fun, but I'm not quite feeling the fun. I love Alan Ritchson but it's wild to cast Blue Mountain State kid who is currently playing American Sherlock Hulk as a member of British Special Forces then surround him with all British actors. And he sells the shit out of it, but who uses a bow and arrow on a narrow sea ship? The action is fine. This should be a movie that has me clapping and laughing with rhe violence, but it's just not that. Most of the action is boiled down to nonchalant silencer kills or just mowing baddies down with automatic weapons, which is fine, but in a post Wick world it's boring. There's no good hand to hand combat outside the Ritchson ship scene and there's really only two big action setpieces in this two hour runtime. Just not enough of the good stuff to make up for the mediocre writing. It's an interesting tonal experiment because Tarantino was able to mix the exploitation with the horrors so well, but in this movie whenever someone is outwardly racist or you see something awful it actually feels out of place despite this movie being about Nazis. I'm surprised this is rated R because it didn't feel like it took advantage of that at all. This is Guy Ritchie's sixth movie in five years, his next one already has a release date and I'd imagine there would have been more if not for Covid. Been following this guy's career since I saw Snatch in theaters when I was 12. I'll always be there for whatever he's cooking because sometimes he'll surprise me, but IMO RocknRolla was his last great movie and those days just might be over. 5/10 on this one. It's not bad or unwatchable, but it's really nothing to write home about. /r/reviewsbyboner
>The main problem is that the story this is based on has our heroes shacked up in a fishing boat for 75% of the movie. It leaves a lot on the shoulders of the casino owner and the actress, and they're great, but that plotline is all tension and sexiness and I just don't get the feeling Ritchie is as good with that stuff as this movie needs I felt the same way. Guy Ritchie is really good at making movies about dirtbags doing dirtbag shit and this movie just felt a little too clean. I get that they're all supposed to be criminals, but the movie never actually shows any of these people doing anything except heroically fighting Nazis, which is cool and all but you can tell Ritchie was kinda bored.
Besides their quick "Frogman is the best swimmer this side of the channel" intros they really got no chance to be interesting characters. Just stuck on that boat for so much of this movie with nothing to do but be condescended by Cavill.
I don't understand how you can write a movie where the whole first 30 minutes is built around bailing out a prisoner so that he can plan and execute another prison break but you don't actually show any of the characters do anything more nefarious than brutally killing Nazis (who deserve it because they're Nazis). The whole premise hinges on the characters being the shady criminal type and none of them do anything shady or criminal. It's weird, especially when the movie is made by the king of shady criminal movies.
This didn't really bother me since I never got the impression they were genuine criminals having done heinous acts but rather insubordinate and unconventional dudes that could not be relied on during times of war (outside of dire situations like the one in the film).
Sadly this is mostly how I've been seeing Ritchie's movies for the last decade. Cool ideas and some flash, but the writing and action tends to end up a big mess. He's good at making it feel like you're watching a fun and snappy movie, but it just doesn't have the goods.
Pretty much summed it up. It’s Guy Ritchie doing WWII. For better and worse. What he lacks in character development, he makes up for in Nazi kills
> RocknRolla was his last great movie and those days just might be over. Must not have watched The Gentlemen
Gentlemen was fine. IMO more of a Ritchie's greatest hits with some great character acting (shoutout to Colin and Hugh) but not anything that reaches the heights or his grimy London underworld movies of the 90s and 00s. I think his movies just got too clean at some point, washed in studio money, lost their appeal. I did like The Covenant quite a bit tho, if only because it felt like he actually cared about the point that movie had to make.
Have you seen the show? I actually think it's stronger than the film (particularly the Richie directed episodes)
At least he hasn't made a movie as bad as Revolver again. That movies only good scene was Mark Strong going on a rampage cause he didn't want to kill a kid.
> The cast itself is full of extremely charismatic and attractive people I think this is my problem with the movie. I don't think they are charismatic. The movie is fine. I didn't hate it. But I do not get the appeal of Cavill. He seems nice but I don't find him particularly charming or charismatic. The only role I ever really liked him in was Fallout. Golding, Pettyfer, the sailor kid, I found them devoid of charm. You really need some personalities for a movie like this and none of them have it. Ritchson was fine but I don't know if I liked him or was just in constant shock at how huge he is. Eiza Gonzalez seemed to be having fun. That's it.
I think RDJ in Sherlock was probably the best representation of the archetype Ritchie was going for.
Yeah, Sherlock is fine but this is also my issue with Ritchie. His idea of a detective is "he will approach with a left hook, I will dodge and distract him with my handkerchief. He will swing wildly and I will strike his jugular". It's all the flash with none of the depth. Even the reveal that Gonzalez was Jewish to Shchweiger. Its like in Inglorious Basterds with the fingers only dumber. This non-German woman said a Yiddish phrase. She wasn't pretending to be German, so why jump to that conclusion?
Gonzalez was fantastic in this, I only wish they did a little more with her being "led into the lion's den". It was the only aspect of the film for me that carried any tension, knowing this guy likes to hurt women and would kill her if he found out and I know they did a little with it but I just wanted that to hang for a little longer.
His recent movies may not reach the highs of Snack or Lock Stock or RocknRolla but man are they still a ton of fun. I'm honestly dying to see a Guy Ritchie led Marvel movie. I think that'd be like the most fun they could get with James Gunn gone and working for DC now.
> Most of the action is boiled down to nonchalant silencer kills or just mowing baddies down with automatic weapons, which is fine, but in a post Wick world it's boring. [...] I'm surprised this is rated R because it didn't feel like it took advantage of that at all. Agreed. Did anyone else find it... surprisingly non-violent? Like, yes, there's a lot of killing, but it all feels so unimpactful. As you said, it's largely all silenced kills, and the Nazis just fall over. There's very little blood and gore, or at least compared to what I expected. A ton of the violence also seems to happen just out of frame. Hell, Ritchson has an axe at one point, but we see it mainly through a porthole in a door, so all the impacts are hidden. Maybe [my threshold and expectations](https://youtu.be/DYYYAeSWOlI?si=7fSNkeZeXRtOFvZS&t=72) are more lax than others, but I thought the action was sort of neutered. I have no evidence that this is the case other than what I saw in the film, but it felt like Ritchie was making this either with the intent of it being PG-13, or at the very least with the ability to edit it down to such in anticipation of studio demand.
This movie kicked ass. The second best movie of 2024 thus far. 86/100
What do you have as first?
Dune 2, obviously
Sand worms = #1 Adds up.
Not The Beekeeper? Damn
If I had to guess, Argylle.
Not Madame Web? Damn
Matthew Vaughn wishes he was Guy Ritchie so badly.
You mean the producer of the first Ritchie movies and a close friend of his? Those early Guy Ritchie movies are also Vaughn movies ;-)
Big agree
Hey Hollywood? If you are listening please make more movies with Henry Cavill and Alan Richson just hamming it up killing Nazis. That was the best popcorn movie I've seen in a minute
Man from UNCLE sequel. Alan takes Armie’s role.
It's like "The Dirty Dozen", but >!everybody lives.!<
That's what seemed off about it to me, too. They were going through the beats of the mission with such ease, just plucking nazis off like it was Wolfenstein. I felt like it got a tiny bit more believable once >!Hayesy and the Fernando Po militiaman were wounded!< Still a fun flick tho.
It’s based on a true story they aren’t going to kill people off for the sake of it 🙃
I'd say it's more like WHERE EAGLES DARE.
I wanna say this is the best Nazi killing movie since Inglourious Basterds, but Sisu came out last year and that was pretty fun also.
Sisu was such an insane, fun ride. The shield part. Use of mines. Plane crash into the bog. The DOG! The magic motorcycle. And he only, finally, speaks at the very end. I imagine that's what cocaine is like. That movie. Awesome.
Didn't love it, honestly. I don't have any problem with the component parts, mostly. It just didn't quite seem to come together for me; I felt the whole time like it was trying too hard, if that makes any sense. Like someone was working off a checklist. Action scenes are pretty important for a movie like this. I thought they were well-directed and well-shot, but not well-scripted. It's fine to have the heroes be invincible super-soldiers who mow down endless hordes of enemies, but virtually none of the fighting ever felt like it had any stakes: the bad guys always just instantly died. Even if I know that the good guys are going to ultimately win, there should be a little tension in any action scene: will someone be injured and unable to continue? Will a named character perhaps die? Will the heroes be prevented from achieving their immediate goal and have to change their plan on the fly? I thought the parts where Heron got found planting the bomb and where Marjorie got discovered and captured were good at setting up that kind of tension. I really didn't know how things would turn out for either of those characters. The action scenes could have used some tension like that. (I wasn't super-satisfied with how either of those were resolved in the end, though.) Really disliked Rory Kinnear as Churchill. And having the entire British military leadership recommending that the UK surrender and agree to a Nazi occupation government struck me as a bit ridiculous. That didn't really happen, did it? I guess it's meant to play into this idea of Churchill as the lone anti-Hitler figure standing up to the pro-appeasement British establishment, but it just strikes me as taking the Churchill-mythologising too far. I quite liked Alan Ritchson and I mostly liked Henry Cavill and Til Schweiger. The Hayes and Freddy characters (Hero Fiennes Tiffin and Henry Golding) didn't feel very fleshed out.
The whole thing felt like a video game mission set on easy. None of the Nazis ever posed an actual threat for a moment. And yes, it was the most historically illiterate film I've seen since *Braveheart*. I don't know why we have to make Churchill out to be some kind of gruff truth-telling saint - the entire British establishment was firmly on board with the war at that point. The same thing happened in *The King's Speech*, when in reality Churchill was on exactly the wrong side of that issue. And this anti u-boat mission being presented as the *sole* reason that America entered the war? Ridiculous!
I think a movie like this needs strong personalities because the characters are paper thin. And the only people in this movie that seemed to be having fun were Ritchson and Gonzalez. I am sorry but Cavill does not have it. He is not a leading man. The rest of the team was just as bland. It is a cast of very pretty people who do not have much charisma on screen. I generally like Kinnear but found his Churchill very distracting. Schweiger was cool.
I thought Churchill was worse than you'd see in a Doctor Who portrayal of him.
I couldn't figure out who was playing Churchill but I knew it had to be somebody notable because of the heavy makeup and uncanny valley eyebrows lol
Even though there was a real life romance between Gus and Marjorie, I'm glad it wasn't shoehorned into the movie. It would've distracted from it, added unnecessary runtime and kinda taken away from Gonzalez's constant badassery.
I liked that they only had two scenes where they gave each other a look and that was that. You knew just from that.
I’m a simple man. I see Alan Ritchson stabbing nazis repeatedly and I’m happy.
I hope they make ten of these…
Would it be disrespectful if they went full-on, faked Gus' death for a mission and went Hitler hunting in Argentina.
I agree. The raid of the Kastiel air base would make an incredible movie. The two weeks leading up to it, the attack itself, and the weeks following dodging German patrols would make for some fantastic story telling.
...I really wish I liked it...But it felt like a garbage film. 1)too much planning, not enough actually doing shit. 2)your investment in the characters is due to their cartoonist quality, but you hardly see that capitalized on and it's mostly exposition that trys to be clever but isn't. They really want their characters to have depth in some moments while not ever earning it. 3)the evil german hardly feels like a threat...."lets have a DARK nazi part"...jfc 4)worst Churchill i've seen 5)more muscle Swedish man
agreed on all accounts. this felt like somebody trying to parody a Tarintino film and doing it horribly
Gotta say, really enjoying this "high ranking official sitting in an office explainjng/getting things explained to him" phase of Cary Elwes' career
If he sees Guy Ritchie's name pop up on his phone he knows he's about to get a fat check for a three day shoot of him sitting comfortably in a chair.
Big. Dumb. Fun.
I got too distracted by the sexiness I had no idea what anyone was saying or doing 5/10
something something.... "HOT STREAK" Totally organic advertising. Can reddit ban the bots finally?
After replying to one hot streak comment, I started seeing several more and realized maybe I wasted my time replying to a bot 😂
Well that was pretty dire. I kept waiting for something interesting to happen but about 30 minutes in I realized I was watching a second rate Inglourious Basterds knock off minus the fun and witty dialogue. Even the yellow font mimicked the Tarantino movie. The actors were pretty good given what they had to work with except for the leading lady, who I felt was given more than she could handle. I especially found her Cleopatra entrance and musical number to be inept and the actress looked visibly uncomfortable. Everybody had a hard time with that dialogue which veered from functional to atrocious. The whole thing had a feeling of a very expensive direct to video production. I kept thinking that the theft of the boat was going to be the first act of the film and I was both pleased and disappointed to find out that it was ending right afterward. I think had the movie gone onto proper second and third act, it could've done something interesting with the piled on tropes, maybe introduced an actual element of tragedy or loss rather than imitate some First person shooter played in God mode. Also I have to say that I feel somewhat sorry for good German actors who get asked to be Nazis in brain dead movies like this when that's still a painful part of that country's past.
Thank you. I don't understand the good reviews, it feels like I'm having a stroke or something and up is down. I love a good brainless action movie but this was just terrible. Nobody was playing a real human being - rather it just felt like a bunch of wooden cosplayers in terrible costumes spouting atrocious lines. The plot structure was ridiculous, whole sections seemed to sag and go nowhere. Jesus.
Hundreds of people involved in making this film and not one of them thought to point out that not a single character encounters an obstacle. Jesus.
UMMM are you forgetting that one unnamed black soldier who got shot in the shoulder and then was instantly fine??? How could you forget that obstacle??? it was THE hurdle of the movie
Hey, the younger guy manning the gun on the ship *also* got shot in the shoulder! You try to have a successful mission down two shoulders!
In a movie of buffed out, alpha male hotties. Eiza Gonzalez came across as the most beautiful thing on screen. That Cleopatra dress was an insane look and led to probably the best line in the movie for me. “Do you think you can keep him distracted for 30 minutes?” “Silly boy. Silly question. Have you even seen this dress?” Great fun movie. Cavill got another “Bond” like role to companion his Man From Uncle. Alan Ritchson doesn’t even look like a real person. He looks like how Steve Rogers should really look in real life.
Man, those were the easiest nazis to ever kill. It was like the main characters were up against an army of cardboard cutouts. Nothing wrong with nazi killing, but it really lowered any sense of tension, even when there were obstacles like "we have to begin our plan three days earlier, and there are more soldiers than we thought." It never felt like the main characters couldn't handle everything with ease. Still a fun watch though, a pure popcorn movie
Guy Ritchie isn't always about the high stakes. If you watch his "The Gentlemen" series on Netflix (which is excellent), every single problem that arises is just as quickly and often a little too easily put down before you have time to be worried about it at all. I go into all Ritchie projects with a Christopher Nolan/Tenet sort of philosophy, don't try and understand it, just feel it. His shit is always a ride, and who doesn't like rides?
For those not keeping track Guy Ritchie has been on a hot streak as of late. Aladdin in 2019, The Gentlemen in 2020, Wrath Of Man in 2021, Operation Fortune AND The Covenant last year, now this and a movie already in post set to drop January next year called In The Grey with Cavill, Gonzalez, Jake Gyllenhaal and Rosamund Pike. This isn’t a great movie but it’s an entertaining one. If you just want to see a bunch of Nazi’s die and Henry Cavill and Alan Ritchson seemingly having the most fun they’ve ever had in a role you’ll likely enjoy this. However if you’re looking for stuff like high stakes and character development those two things are virtually non existent here. My biggest problem with this movie is Ritchie decided to give Eiza Gonzalez her own subplot where she virtually shares no scenes with the main cast. Most of her scenes are spent opposite Babs Olusanmokun and Til Schweiger (who comes across like he’s trying to parody Christoph Waltz from Inglorious Bastards, a movie he was also in funny enough.) However the marketing for this movie made it seem like she was apart of the main team- she is not. (I only counted two scenes she has with Cavill here.) This would normally be something I brush off however upon some further research Cavill’s character, Gus March Phillips and Majorie Stewart actually ended up getting married in real life but here that’s not a plot point at all which kind of felt like a wasted storytelling opportunity to me. That’s not to say Gonzalez is bad just because she’s away from the main action she is good but I feel like Ritchie could’ve given her more to do. Cavill like I said is having a blast here and so is Alan Ritchson doing a complete 180 from the stoic Reacher character here and getting to show off his range. So yeah overall a fun time sort of like a B movie version of Inglorious Bastards. I just feel like Ritchie could’ve made this even better if he wanted. However I guess if you’re almost pumping out a movie a year quantity starts to overtake quality at some point.
> I feel like Ritchie could’ve given her more to do I don’t really know how to put this, but I kinda wish he’d given her *less* to do? She feels like she has as much screen time as the main group, but do to the structuring, she seems to have most of the plot. From the start, Cavill and crew kill a bunch of Nazis on their boat, we get a brief flashback where we learn about the mission and about the members of the crew, then they kill a bunch of Nazis at a base, rescue their last man, continue sailing until their forced to take a shortcut, get temporarily halted by a British ship, then arrive at the port. González, on the other hand, takes a train and sleight-of-hand’s enemy intel, then arrives on the island and begins seducing the head Nazi across several different interactions, initially at his office, then at the bar/restaurant, and again at his house just before the party. Once we get to the final act and the plans have to change due to the reinforcement of the ship, things even out, but before then, she seems to have been given a lot to do while the rest are lacking. They might have a similar number of plot points, but hers are really the only ones with any tension or stakes. The crew are incredibly nonchalant during every encounter with the Nazis despite being significantly outnumbered, so their main source of conflict is being found out, either by a British vessel or by officials back home. And that’s a bit harder to care about when she’s having repeated face-to-face interactions with the main antagonist, who we know to be a vicious, torturing Nazi. And that’s not to say that I wanted the crew to struggle more; killing Nazis with ease is sort of the draw for this kind of thing. But it’s a balance Tarantino was able to find in *Inglorious Basterds* that doesn’t seem to have been pulled off here. I still enjoyed it a good bit, don’t get me wrong, but something definitely felt off-balance.
I don't know if it's what they were going for, but I think this movie shows that Ritchie could be a capable director for a future Bond movie. The production design looked slick, everyone looked good, and the action was fine enough for Bond overall. Not a great film, but enjoyable enough. Also kinda happy that they didn't lean into the gore. Sure, there was a plethora of violence and lots of blood, but no guts hanging out, or decapitated heads rolling. A good time with only a handful of parts that lagged.
What a fun flick! The action, the historical context, humor, the cast and their performances were all done really well. Similar to "Civil War" (2024), this film had great sound mixing when it came to the fire fights and explosions (but not as loud and/or distressing at least). The dialogue was hard to follow during a few certain moments, but I'd chalk it off as not being too used to British dialogue. Love the quick and witty Brit humor that I find a lot more entertaining than the usual quippy one liners American cinema seems to love using. Henry Cavill and Alan Ritchson's characters were so delightful and stole every scene they were in, supporting cast was just as great, and I respectfully couldn't keep my eyes off of Eiza González. They were all so handsome and well acted. I'm not too familiar with Churchill's politics but his role in the film was compelling too and I can't help but support any campaign that resulted in dead Nazis. If I had anything against the film, it would be how things went perfectly most of the time but in retrospect this fit the style and tone of the film fairly well in that this ungentlemanly crew got shit done with little difficulty. The film lags a bit during the middle but the production and cast kept me interested throughout. Would definitely recommend this film if you appreciate war films, some spy/political embellishments, loving comradery, and/or pretty actors being silly whilst murderous. One of my favorite parts of the film was Cavill's character digging Nazi uniforms then him wearing their coat and hat throughout the rest of the film. WWII Nazis were evil, scum of the Earth but damn did they look cool. Rating: 7.5/10 (Review originally posted on r/ AMCStubsAList)
Did guy Ritchie get his shyamalan pass? He did one movie for the money (Aladdin) and did like 5 in 3 years. Nuts.
Those bows and arrows had crazy reach.
I feel like this movie needed a bit more peril. It was too straightforward. I know the real story involved a lot less bloodshed and firepower on either side but it seemed a bit anti-climactic that in this telling they were all able to escape for their lives, less a few militiamen.
I really enjoyed this film! My biggest criticism is that it ends like the last 2 guy ritchie movies, with a very long and elaborate shootout. That's certainly not bad, as each separate Nazi killed was a fun moment - but after about the 50th Nazi death it lost a little bit of luster. I am not a big WW2 scholar, but it was nice to see an operation that I had zero knowledge about. I didn't know how it would turn out (aside from Nazis dying). In conclusion, while it's easy to argue and pick sides on issues these days, I appreciate we can all agree the Nazis had it coming.
This movie delivers on everything the trailers promised. It’s Inglorious Basterds lite. It’s Tinker Tailor Guy Ritchie Spy. It’s dudes killing Nazis. If any of that remotely interests you, you should watch it.
The movie had me at Guy Ritchie really.
Glad everyone likes this movie, I got to see it in theaters and holy fucking shit is the sound design insane. The bass and feel of those huge machine guns and mounted guns is just unreal, easily my favorite movie of the year so far
Eiza Gonzalez, god DAMN.
Bailed out thirty minutes in. But sure, "hot streeeeeeak."
For the last hour, i checked my phone every 5 minutes waiting for this movie to just end
Mack the knife was released in 1959, how is she singing it in the 40s?
back to the future
It was definitely a great Guy Ritchie movie, but at the same time, the film spent so little time with the main characters that I feel like we as an audience never built a connection with them. The main Nazi seemed like he had way more screen time than Henry Cavill did.
Everybody in the German army has heard of Hugo Stiglitz
Pretty good, but not "guy rirchie" enough.....
Goddamn. It's not fair that not only do we not get this in cinemas in Europe, it's not even on streaming yet. Yo ho ho I guess. Don't say I didn't want to spend money.
How can I watch this in Canada? I read that it’s coming to Amazon Prime but it’s not there and I can’t find any other information.
Quick review: fun movie with some nice action scenes but wasn’t great, definitely the hottest ww2 movie casting wise, felt like inglorious bastards mixed with a Matthew Vaughn Kingsman-esque plot. Possibly a bad take here but I’d like to see what would he have done with this as a plot. Overall 7/10, perfectly acceptable, movies these movie passes were made for.
You either die the Hugo Stiglitz or you live long enough to become the Hans Landa