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The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare | Average Guy Movie Review

With the Battle of the Atlantic in full swing, Churchill is desperate to find a way to neutralise Hitler's U-Boats. Which leads British Intelligence to come up with an audacious and unorthodox plan. The idea being to sneak into the Spanish island port off the coast of Africa where the U-Boats are docked, and take out the boats that are resupplying them, seriously damaging their ability to target the convoys crossing from North America. Now they just need to find people crazy enough to take on such a mission. The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare , a decidedly British story, has finally landed on British shores. It's a heavily fictionalised telling of Operation Postmaster - the real operation took about 30 minutes and not a shot was fired. But that doesn't prevent Guy Ritchie from having a little fun, delivering a little action-packed romp whilst also capturing that spirit needed to take on such a task, and the one that got Britain through the war. While it's not his bes...

The Gentlemen | Average Guy Movie Review

Mickey Pearson (Matthew McConaughey) has built a multi-million pound cannabis empire, and used it to ingratiate his way into British high society. But with legalisation on the horizon, Mickey's looking to sell up and retire, spend some time with the wife. The problem is word of Mickey's plans have got out, and the vultures are circling. Can the gentleman drug dealer keep his empire intact long enough to find a buyer? Guy Ritchie returns to the genre that made him with a movie that puts a hilarious - and not entirely unbelievable - spin on the British upper class. Told mostly through flashback, and from the point of view of Fletcher, a sleazy private investigator played by Hugh Grant in a show stealing performance. Very different from the type of character we're used to seeing Grant play, Fletcher is by far the best thing about The Gentlemen. Something of an unreliable narrator - he is prone to flashes of "artistic license" - his attempts to liven up t...