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Metascore
35 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90Arizona RepublicMeredith G. WhiteArizona RepublicMeredith G. WhiteThe Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare is everything you want in a movie: the fight scenes are bloody and exciting, the dialogue is tongue-in-cheek, every joke landed, and not one actor felt out of place.
- 75TheWrapWilliam BibbianiTheWrapWilliam BibbianiIt’s a larger than life World War II thriller in the Guy Ritchie house style, and he strikes a fine, fun balance between the threat that the Nazis posed and the thrill of watching hunky heroes slaughter them at great length, then chuckle and smoke cigarettes and call each other 'old boy' about 50 million times.
- 70Paste MagazineJesse HassengerPaste MagazineJesse HassengerFor Ritchie, though, the stolidness is an experiment and, in The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare at least, a reasonably effective one.
- 60Screen RantMolly FreemanScreen RantMolly FreemanThough not Guy Ritchie's best film, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare has enough slick style and exhilarating action to be a helluva fun ride.
- 60VarietyPeter DebrugeVarietyPeter DebrugeThese guys are so good at what they do, Ritchie fails to muster the expected tension. Instead of suspense, audiences feel a sense of delight in watching them succeed, no matter the setback.
- 58IndieWireDavid EhrlichIndieWireDavid EhrlichAs much as I’d love to see these characters in another film, I’d also love to have seen more of them in this one. Oh, and a quick general note to action directors everywhere: Silencers are great for stealth kills, but they really suck the fun out of a full-blown siege.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyThe Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyChronicling a covert World War II mission manned by a band of renegades, the movie is diverting but remains awkwardly stuck between a larkish caper and a more gripping combat action thriller.
- 50SlashfilmJeremy MathaiSlashfilmJeremy MathaiBut when the smoke of its bombastic climax clears, what we're left with is an oddly sanitized, toned-down, and somewhat misshapen addition to Ritchie's oeuvre.
- 50Slant MagazineDerek SmithSlant MagazineDerek SmithTo Ritchie’s credit, he keeps his film moving along at a consistently brisk clip, but that breeziness is also the cause of its weightlessness, rendering its vision of historical events as outright cartoonish, down to the often clownish portrayals of Nazis and the flawless execution of nearly every element of March-Phillips’s plans.
- 40Screen DailyTim GriersonScreen DailyTim GriersonThe result is a smirking, shallow action-comedy — a total mission failure.