I skipped this one at the theater, because I assumed someone had found the Giles Milton book of the same name (which title we have appropriated for similar lessons on this blog).
Which is fascinating non-fiction reading, based on Churchill's private wartime files, only declassified a few years ago. I skipped the movie named after it because I was afraid someone had Ingloriously Bastardized some cracking good WW2 exploits of the SOE and SAS, and gone all Hollywoketarded on it.
Nope.
In fact, author Damien Lewis wrote his own book with the same title as Milton's.
And Lewis was on board as one of the co-executive producers of the flick.
The Milton book (which you absolutely ought to read) is a literal almanac of Who Was Who among the British throat-slitters in WW2. Which would take 27 movies to cover. We haven't read Lewis' version, but after seeing the movie, we want a copy as soon as we can get one.
This flick, OTOH, is only about one such operation: Operation Postmaster, which was an illegal, unauthorized, and unsanctioned mission nonetheless ordered by Churchill to destroy the Italian freighter and tugboats resupplying the Nazi U-boat menace that was strangling Britain at the beginning of the war.
Yes, it's been fiddled with a tad for cinematic purposes. But it is, indeed, "based on a true story". If you've seen Euan Lloyd's The Sea Wolves, you'll have a taste for this kind of movie. (If you haven't seen that one, that makes two flicks you need to put in your to-watch queue.)
Forget that part. It's a rollicking fun-as-hell action flick even if it was sheer fantasy. To prove the point, (Spoiler Alert) the real-life versions of the cast members are shown at the end of the flick, to illustrate the sort of insane derring-do they pulled off from 1940-1945.
Apparently, for the pic, they found an empty harbor in Turkey which they could build as the double for the real location, and then blow to hell to make the film. They nailed both parts.
This was in theaters only in April, and again, because it doesn't suck up much to Hollyweird's DEI and woketarded shibboleths, it slipped in and out of theaters without so much as a ripple. Underpromoting it for those reasons, it cost $60M (probably double that), while bringing in only $26M in release(which the studio only gets half of), so financially, it was a theatrical flop, losing about $100M.
Their loss is your gain. I found it at Big Box store, which means it's streaming and Netflixing and all that other jazz, for a song.
Our rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ This movie kicks ass.
We only hope this things gains new life in home release, allowing director Guy Ritchie and Producer Jerry Bruckheimer to team up to make the next five or ten installments of this story.
6 comments:
Have the Milton book in the stack to read. This is one of those collections that would make a good series on Netflix to flesh out various operations. DEI needs to die.
One of those British throat-slitters was Sir Christopher Lee, who was the actual Most Interesting Man In The World.
Speaking of "Ministry of Un-gentlemanly warfare", I never knew about this. Now THIS is the way it's done.
"In a tense meeting with Taliban leaders, Trump declared, 'I want to leave Afghanistan, but it’s going to be a conditions-based withdrawal,' before issuing a stark warning.
'If you harm a hair on a single American, I’m going to kill you,' Trump said. The translator conveyed this exact message.
Trump then reached in his pocket, pulled out a satellite photo of the leader of the Taliban’s home, handed it to him, got up and walked out the room."
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/07/03/congressman-wesley-hunt-tells-his-favorite-story-about-witnessing-trump-as-president/
The only problem is Alan Ditch son and his big liberal mouth. He kinda spoiled it for me. The Milton book is incredible. O, the book is great, the MEN were incredible. Storyteller
Actors politically are twats. All of them.
Google Anthony Hopkins' commentary on the phenomenon.
I refuse to skip good movies just because good actors can't keep their cockholsters shut on whatever political thought plops into their generally empty heads.
I can respect Paul Newman, who STFU and put his money where his mouth never was.
I can respect Reagan, Clint Eastwood, Sony Bono, and even Gopher and Miss Jane, who all ran for office.
The rest of them should shove their own underpants down their own throats until no one can hear them, and their legs stop kicking.
Give Rogue Heroes as look.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10405370/
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