The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: History vs. Hollywood

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Ай бұрын

The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare true story is compared to the Guy Ritchie WW2 movie about Operation Postmaster, a mission carried out by the British Army's No. 62 Commando, also known as the Small Scale Raiding Force (SSRF). The Small Scale Raiding Force operated as part of Winston Churchill's broader covert division, the Special Operations Executive (SOE). Led by Major Gus March-Phillips, who is portrayed by Henry Cavill in Guy Ritchie's Operation Postmaster movie, the British special ops team attempts to steal three axis-aligned ships from the harbor of Santa Isabel on the island of Fernando Po off of West Africa. Does The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare's real story resemble the version of history in this Operation Postmaster movie?
In this fact-check, we answer numerous questions regarding this Guy Ritchie WW2 movie's historical accuracy. For example, did Anders Lassen (portrayed by Alan Ritchson) use a bow and arrows in combat? Which of The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare's characters are based on real people? Was Marjorie Stewart (Eiza González) a part of Operation Postmaster? In the true story, did the mission result in that high of a body count? Finally, the Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare's ending is explained, including whether Prime Minister Winston Churchill thanked them by serving them lobster.
To read our full fact vs. fiction analysis of this Guy Ritchie war film, check out our History vs. Hollywood article here: www.historyvshollywood.com/re...

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@deefective1100 Ай бұрын

After the release of the movie Argo, it was criticized for it's accuracy. Ron Howard said " if you want the facts don't look to Hollywood"

@christophersanders3252 21 күн бұрын

What a terrible attitude for a director to have. The true story of this operation would have been a good movie.

@therebelfrogy9287 11 күн бұрын

Actual based, imagine criticizing Hollywood accuracy cus of their movie

@jacktattis 4 күн бұрын

@@therebelfrogy9287 Yes indeed how could they?

@ren1819 15 күн бұрын

Just finished watching this movie... and I do have to say I was genuinely entertained...

@namelastname1085 Ай бұрын

The film does mention at the end that Gus March-Phillipps most likely inspired Ian Fleming's James Bond.

@pescatorioso Ай бұрын

Brian lett KC in his excellent book,reckons that 007 was a mixture of March-Phillips 001 ,Appleyard 002, Hayes 003 and Lassen. At Kew the record gives their 00 codes and even states them as " licenced to Kill" There is no doubt about the James Bond Link.

@tooslow4065 Ай бұрын

@@pescatorioso also, ian fleming also did spy stuff too. some of oo7 was based on his own experiences.

@PhilipBurton-dn3ce Ай бұрын

And Gus got the woman

@ethanweeter2732 Ай бұрын

@@pescatoriosoThe story is mentioned in multiple documentaries as the inspiration for Bond, I believe.

@ethanweeter2732 Ай бұрын

@@tooslow4065He was a spy during WWII and was involved with Operation Postmaster.

@gafortheloveofgamenfilm1159 27 күн бұрын

Love it ,cause Henry gets to play the man who inspired James bond so Henry gets to be the real james bond so cool

@JohnDerbyshire-ns2up 25 күн бұрын

Mad jack churchill was a British soldier who actually used a longbow in battle and had several confirmed kills with it. He also carried a Scottish claymore sword and bagpipes into battle.

@jacktattis 4 күн бұрын

And he was an instructor here in Qld post war. I bet their Officers mess was rowdy place

@jonnyh9388 Ай бұрын

Regarding the use of a bow and arrow, I'd recommend reading up on another legendary British soldier - Lieutenant Colonel John Malcolm Thorpe Fleming Churchill.

@madade27 Ай бұрын

Mad Jack. My old man served in the same unit early in the war.

@ewjiml Ай бұрын

I don’t think this movie was going for historical accuracy…..I mean the Nazi commander literally dealing with a black African businessman is kind of absurd….

@tedarcher9120 14 күн бұрын

Black guy in Eaton in 1920s is even more absurd. In reality the first one was in 1969, not 1920

@MrTheatrick 6 күн бұрын

The Nazis would mostly deal with whoever if it was for gain. Allso the world was alot more connected alot earlier then you give it credit for in the early 1900s there was basicly not a place where an african had not been mate. I mean sheesh there was probably an african in England during roman times just saying o.O

@AGoodJoe Ай бұрын

Cool video. Hope no one really thought this was gonna be Saving Private Ryan or Dunkirk. Just a super fun Ritchie film and I'm here for it.

@ethanweeter2732 Ай бұрын

It was a good movie. Never seen the other 2, but I liked it a lot.

@bepinkfloyd814 Ай бұрын

@@ethanweeter2732 you never saw saving private Ryan and dunkirk? Those 2 are the best imo war movies. I would add 1917 and everything quiet on the western front.

@jacktattis 4 күн бұрын

@@bepinkfloyd814 SPR full of crap.

@TheGoproGuy 21 күн бұрын

Yes this movie doesn’t accurately represent history, but then again, who said this was a documentary? This is a film for purely entertainment purposes. And I freakin loved it

@tedarcher9120 14 күн бұрын

For me it was like a bad parody of Inglorious Bastards. Ritchie tries to make Tarantino, but he just can't.

@CEngelbrecht Ай бұрын

Extra trivia: Anders Lassen joined the Allied war effort on April 9th, 1940, the day of Nazi Germany's invasion of both his native Denmark and Norway. April 9th is a mythical date in both those countries. Lassen was KIA exactly five years later in Northern Italy, on April 9th, 1945. Denmark was liberated by British forces on May 5th, less than a month after Lassen's death.

@madshansen8612 28 күн бұрын

I thought it was a Canadian force who went to free Denmark. But Canada is under the British Empire.

@CEngelbrecht 28 күн бұрын

@@madshansen8612 No, I don't know of specifically Canadian troops liberating Denmark. You might be thinking of the story of how a Canadian battalion managed to reach Lübeck on the Baltic coast before the Red Army did, which then blocked the Soviets from advancing onward to Denmark, which they probably would have. (The headline is "How A Small Group Of Canadian Paratroopers Saved Denmark From Soviet Occupation".) The summary of the end of hostilities in Denmark is that she was specifically relieved of German rule on the morning of May 5th, 1945, when mechanised British units under Bernard Law Montgomery crossed the border into Southern Jutland. Remaining German forces in the Netherlands, North-Western Germany and Denmark had formally surrendered to Montgomery the evening before at Lüneburg Heath South of Hamburg in Northern Germany. A small Danish contingent who had trained in exile in neutral Sweden also disembarked in Elsinore north of Copenhagen, and they along with the Danish resistance actually had a bunch of shooting skirmishes on May 5th around the Copenhagen area, not with German forces who had officially surrendered, but with armed Danish groups that had collaborated with the Germans during the occupation. Internal showdowns. More people actually got killed on the day of liberation than during Germany's six hour long invasion of the country five years earlier. The one exception was the Eastern Danish island Bornholm out in the Baltic Sea, which was sort-of-liberated by the Red Army on May 9th, who then decided to stick around for another year, seemingly because Stalin was trying to hawk that strategic island for himself at the conference table. Which failed, 'cause by then Denmark had been officially declared one of the victors of the war.

@geronimo5537 22 күн бұрын

then the war ended May 1945. he almost lived the entire thing. impressive on its own right given his close engagement.

@CEngelbrecht 22 күн бұрын

@@geronimo5537 Technicality, the war in _Europe_ ended in May '45. It carried on in the Pacific until the two atom bombs were dropped on Japan in August.

@brianjones1151 Ай бұрын

Making the movie closer to the truth would have been better. Having read about and studied the real men of this operation and many others like it, i can't help but feel slightly sick that their names and legacies have been basterdised ! I know it's only a movie 'as they say' , but kids and the uninformed always think its true to life.

@Tharindu_LK Ай бұрын

If the real life events are this different it should not have said based on a true story. It should have said inspired by a true story and went on with different names

@pescatorioso Ай бұрын

I agree.

@abiesdewet6910 Ай бұрын

DEI Bullshit...

@alexanderhorvath8822 Ай бұрын

I do agree aswell, however I think that as he said in the video. If the film was being more truthful about the whole event I wonder if so many people would care to watch it. I see it as a way of spreading the word and getting people to want to learn more about WW2 and its heroes. Just like me I just watched it and immediately wanted to know if those things really happened. Also I think that making the characters nearly invincible is not that bad for the film itself. I see it as a way of thanking them for their service, although they should have included their sacrifices in the credits. As I said real life heroes. ❤And maybe juuuuuust maybe I liked the film that much because I just love seeing Nazis bite the dust 😂 greetings from 🇦🇹!

@owtnerdy1331 Ай бұрын

I think the original mission is more than exciting, in the hands of the right director it could've been done.

@magnopedro3756 25 күн бұрын

Interesting fact, I literally realized today that I was able to listen perfectly in English for the first time, thanks man, your content is really good

@acostajj427 15 күн бұрын

Should rename this “history vs film critic who didn’t actually pay attention to the movie”

@MrSEANDEERE 3 күн бұрын

As a historian, I watched this film not for a leasson but I good time. I saw the trailler and alreadynwas loving the action comedy aspect of it and the WW2 spy theme was the icing on the cake. I enjoyed it, it was funny had great action scene. A solid movie. Henry Cavill had me in stiches when he put on the SS uniform. Hell that was hilarious.

@munanchoinc 14 күн бұрын

As far the Bow and Arrow weapon of choice. It's likely inspired by Mad Jack Churchill who was officially the last person in a major war to ever score a kill using a Bow and Arrow

@anniez14 Ай бұрын

Read the book. Watched this docu-drama for it's entertainment value. Enjoyed the drama. It is my home when the younger generations see this & other films like it, they will go on to read & learn more about our history. LEST WE FORGET!

@MrEd8846 Ай бұрын

basically. from the start of the movie i kinda knew it was going to be an overexaggeration of Operation Postmaster. but even then. i had a lot of fun with this film. end of the day the movie is entertainment and not a documentary. i think people forget that when they watch movies about events. general audiences dont like Tora Tora Tora or Midway because.... well... its boring. war history nerds do because its pretty close to what happened. and you know what? entertainment is what got me into history and learning about the real stories anyway. you brought up saving private ryan and the d-day landings. a sequence that can be picked and picked and picked apart for its inaccuracies. but the authenticity and chaos is there. but then you get the whole movie and its ridiculous concept of 1 group of rangers trying to find 1 person. but we need a story instead of "oh its a inspired by a guy named Niland who heard his brothers died then got shipped home when he arrived at Division". so we got a good movie even with its flaws, ridiculous concept, and inaccuracies.

@ethanweeter2732 Ай бұрын

Hacksaw Ridge was a great movie.

@Pharoyar Ай бұрын

This is the KZfaq CHANNEL i needed ... thank you

@jschudel777 Ай бұрын

Loved this movie. Surprisingly fresh.

@hldvoyeur4709 Ай бұрын

Oh God, you're dumb.

@mikefordham6546 20 күн бұрын

It's a movie, it doesn't matter, it never states "here is a history lesson" why do people have to pick apart things if you want facts go to the history channel and stop criticising, I don't understand why someone would make a video like this .

@translunar1 29 күн бұрын

Great video and first of yours I have seen so will checkout more. In relation to the movie, it was a shame it came out such a box office failure as it deserved better support, but it was the Lock Stop and Two Smoking barrels version of Operation Postmaster and a bit too jokey for me. Also I note that a really similar version of the forming of the Special Air Service was made in the UK in 2022, written by Steven Knight and though that sticks more closely to the origins of 1st SAS Regiment in North Africa, a bit like this movie it had a quiet childish and cartoony feel to me and I was putoff by the music of ACDC being played by Stirlings jeeps were being driven through the desert. But one positive thing I will say as a British Amateur military historian and military veteran myself it is always good to see real stories re told, even if in a slightly unbelievable way as it does educate the young people about WW2 which has to be a good thing!

@waithereivegonetogethelp3240 3 күн бұрын

I thought it was common knowledge that, when it comes to movies, 'based on a true story' pretty much always means 'loosely inspired by'.

@No-One-of-Consequence 28 күн бұрын

The pre-closing credits sequence does actually mention March Phillios as the model for 007.

@1SciFiGeek508 29 күн бұрын

As a history buff, this movie is the equivalent of watching Speed Racer to learn about nascar.

@Colin-Fenix 25 күн бұрын

I didn’t watch it as a history lesson!

@1SciFiGeek508 25 күн бұрын

@@Colin-Fenix it's too bad it wasn't more accurate. The reality was much more intense than that slap stick pie fight they dropped on the public

@geronimo5537 22 күн бұрын

For a modern post 2000 hollywood movie. They did a fairly accurate job. The intro of cleared out a boarding party in front of german ship watching would have never left them alive. But the rest was quite possible. Overall the people involved were respected and the risks known. One could say they had done this easy mode. However sometimes the impossible is far easier than it seems. Which is why the British got away with so many little operations like this against the odds. Because no one expected someone could.

@MP14562 Ай бұрын

Still a good movie tbh shit was entertaining as a "movie" should be

@andybrown4284 17 сағат бұрын

Movie was Guy Ritchie trying to be Tarantino and turn real events into an inglorious style flick but because it was trying to have a foot in both camps it fell short. Passable popcorn flick but could have been so much more. If they wanted spec ops and explosions then the St Nazaire raid would have been a better choice but given how this movie ended up its a good thing they didn't go there.

@geronimo5537 22 күн бұрын

@jeebuschristos8423 5 сағат бұрын

Fun fact: Cary Elwes is actually related to TWO of these SOE bad asses... Lieutenant-Colonel Billy McLean and Major Oswald A. J. Cary-Elwes...

@raulmorales2483 17 күн бұрын

Ok friends, history is one thing, a movie is another. If from the beginning they tell us that it is based on a true story, then you don't want the real story, for that you read the books. It is pure entertainment but admit it, well done. Now everyone comes out and criticizes or says that it would have been better to have made the movie sticking to the real history, none of you would have gone to see it, since as "historians" have clarified, there was no such bloodshed, two actions were mixed as if one had been followed by the other (I am referring to the captain's rescue). So, finally, thankful for the historical theme, impressed by what these men were, incredible that they did everything without killing a Nazi, but let me enjoy an entertaining movie.

@HellYeahAmerca Ай бұрын

The dirty dozen, which is based on the fithy 13, was a great older movie.

@michaeltalbot8242 Ай бұрын

Ca I suggest you read and comment on the book which is a brilliant bit of work and has so many other stories that need to be pictured

@johnhamilton2213 6 күн бұрын

If you want to know the full details of this escapade, read the book: Churchill’s Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare by Giles Milton.

@user-vj7el2wg9b Ай бұрын

I enjoyed your video, but one niggly little criticism: " . . . the HMS Violet . . ." Please do not use an article when a ship name is preceded by the abbreviation HMS, which stands for His/Her Majesty's Ship.

@gertandersen3609 Ай бұрын

@HistoryvsHollywoodOfficial I have read everything in Danish about and in English on Anders Lassen. He was once in SOE training tasked with providing extra food, for his team and hunted a deer with only a knife and that was why he was selected for Op Postmaster. His cousin was a German, von dem Busche and he was originally tasked with planting a bomb next to Hitler in 1943, but his führer moment was cancelled due to an allied bombardment. Von dem Bussche was scheduled to show some new officers uniforms to AH

@Rendell001 Ай бұрын

Yep, Axel Von Dem Busche volunteered to be a suicide bomber with a pair of hand grenades under his coat. Hitler decided to cancel the appointment shortly beforehand (Allegedly having had a bad feeling about it) and Von Dem Busche had to excuse himself and disarm the grenades with a minute to spare...

@GeZ-DM 3 күн бұрын

The movie does tell you about Gus being a base for Bond. Plus its a fun take on the whole thing.. its not meant to be a Saving Private Ryan type film.

@dubdub2527 Ай бұрын

Inglorious Bastards is loosely based on British Troop X, an all Jewish commando group in WW2.

@MarkARhodie Ай бұрын

I've heard of an all Jewish Commando unit, according to Google it's 10 Commando.

@davidm3118 Ай бұрын

Rambo and Chuck Norris films have much to answer for - there were very few WW2 Special Forces types that resembled these characters - consider the actor David Niven, who actually was a real life WW2 Commando, and apparently capable of some fairly cold blooded actions - he doesn't really fit the Rambo mold, does he?

@geoffhoutman1557 Ай бұрын

Christopher Lee too. According to Christopher Lee at least

@mfactor88 Ай бұрын

very entertaining movie!

@Scurvybilgerat10 Ай бұрын

you could say this about every single war film to come out of Hollywood ffs

@geeianna7708 Ай бұрын

Good point but when Hollywood gets even wrong the title ( Krakatoa East of... ) it's needed

@MarkARhodie Ай бұрын

The worst being U-571, claiming the Americans capturing the Enigma machine, not the British. I think the British PM complained at the time. lol

@LukeBunyip 6 күн бұрын

Lewis's book is a great read.

@bureaucraticconsequences4828 Ай бұрын

Very entertaining movie. Although, as someone who read the book. They couldve made a tv series about the reat of the amazing feats they accomplished.

@steveolive9991 3 күн бұрын

Read the true account of this opeartion "Ian Fleming's and SOE's Operation Postmaster" by Brian Lett. You will also learn how the 00 (of 007) meant a license to kill. The officers involved in Operation Postmaster were assigned codenames such a W.01, the 0 meaning that they were TRAINED (assassinate a better word?) to kill, not licensed; licensed to kill would be redundant as everyone in the military is licensed to kill. He was initially under the command of Admiral Godfery and several years later under the command of General Gubbins whose code name was M.

@Boatdrink 10 күн бұрын

No mention of why they changed the nationality of the heroic Captain Hayes, who was English, but portrayed in the film as an Irishman?

@jdrancho1864 Ай бұрын

Elsa Gonzalez' character being Jewish not German?? WTH? Jewish is not a nationality. She can be German, or French, or Polish, or Russian, or any other nationality and ALSO be Jewish. Jewish is also not a language.

@ajandrew4197 Ай бұрын

It's called a movie. Enjoy. 😉😉😉😉

@danielkubin3878 Ай бұрын

Operation Anthropoid is not ideal example of operation SOE as you mention. It was Czechoslovak army operation, more likely Czechoslovak goverment in-exile operation as active proof for british government in order that czechoslovak people actively fighting against nazies. Gabcik and Kubis, others members from their group were just prepared and trained by SOE. "Brain" of the operation was Frantisek Moravec, head of the Czechoslovak intelligence services and it was approved by Edvard Beneš, head of Czechoslovak goverment in-exile.

@nguyenhuynhminhuc7177 27 күн бұрын

For a chanel whining about movie is not historical accuracy, i don't see any video about Netflix's Black Cleopatra.

@jasminerigdon2916 Ай бұрын

I think of it like the movie: the death of Stalin. Love it

@nunogonzalez4037 Ай бұрын

what movie crap! And those actors who just got out of the gym and are supposed to recreate real characters that existed in the 40s! It's no surprise that younger generations have no idea what the Second World War was like.

@HistoryvsHollywoodOfficial Ай бұрын

That’s a good point I didn’t mention in the video. While the real guys weren’t out of shape, they certainly didn’t have time to spend several hours a day in the gym and they certainly didn’t look like Reacher or Henry Cavill. There were more important things, like a war going on.

@royalblue2324 7 күн бұрын

Brilliant guy Ritchie film

@mosab643 29 күн бұрын

I wouldn't have minded watching a movie based on the actual events.

@iwanttocomplain Ай бұрын

You might not know this. but 'gubbins' means 'bits and pieces'. There are infinite unusual words that are not used when addressing foreign people.

@HistoryvsHollywoodOfficial Ай бұрын

Interesting. Guess that’s why he was called M instead.

@iwanttocomplain Ай бұрын

@@HistoryvsHollywoodOfficial I'm not sure why he's called M but Gubbins is obviously a pseudonym

@zen4men Ай бұрын

@@iwanttocomplain Incorrect - Gubbins was his name.

@zen4men Ай бұрын

I knew Brigadier Beyts, who was Gubbin's second in command at SOE, and I have met Gubbins' great-nephew, so I can tell you that Major-General Sir Colin McVean Gubbins, KCMG, DSO, MC definitely existed. The Gubbins came from France, and were then first recorded in Ireland. / My mother was part of French Section of SOE, but never spoke of her war, which I discovered through deduction after her death. She was an Ensign in FANY, and knew the Beaulieu area very well. / Another point. The German officer on the train was not wearing an SS cap - looked rather Wehrmacht to me. /

@iwanttocomplain Ай бұрын

@@zen4men well it's true there are about 500 words only british people know what the meaning is.

@crusignatioutremer791 Ай бұрын

Nice video. I didn't hear you discuss another aspect of this film, after pointing out that there waa no females, as well as digging as far as the possible female being hispanic to explain the casting, and that is the casting of "roids' in two of the key male roles. Your historic photos show men that were no where near as big as several of the modern actors. It is too bad Christopher Lee isn't around to give us his thoughts on this new release.😜

@peterhughes7099 Ай бұрын

As usual and American has to knock a story based on true events (all be it with extra gunfire and explosions). Yet Americans are taught that the events of U-571 genuinely happened! It was only after significant backlash that a little note was added that it was fictional and that the Royal Navy captured the Enigma long before the US were in WW2. The MoUW is a film, sit back and enjoy it.

@jdrancho1864 Ай бұрын

"....that is exactly what Churchill would have done" - which makes it a factual truth in some people's eyes today. that it never happened is irrelevant.

@jacktattis 4 күн бұрын

It was not the first, that honour goes to the Royal Marine Commandos Norway 1940

@tedarcher9120 14 күн бұрын

Man, he definitely used bows in combat i guarantee. Why would he train with them otherwise. Especially as suppressors weren't deployed yet

@michaeldiogenesbest6127 8 күн бұрын

Whaddaya expect?! After all, Guy Ritchie made "Sherlock Holmes".......

@tobywiddop4817 Ай бұрын

Just nice to have a ww2 film that suggest maybe it wasn't just the usa doing all the fighting. Makes a nice change that.

@owtnerdy1331 Ай бұрын

Guy Ritchie shits all over the UK. At every turn he's made us sound pathetic and weak.

@jasonstarks3796 29 күн бұрын

Oh yeah, this was so much better. The British winning the war one masterful commando operation at a time. Total German dead & missing 3.6 million. 2.7 of them fighting the Russians. 900,000 on all other fronts. It's rather obvious who did most of the fighting. Yet not many western movies about the Eastern Front.

@MarkARhodie Ай бұрын

The film, They Who Dare is probably more historically correct.

@shagrat47 Ай бұрын

Well, a film about historical events does definitely not need to add combat... It can simply add tension and suspense, portraying the actual events. I think the action scenes are great to watch, but they aren't needed per se. Look at great movies based in a world war II timeframe like "The Imitation Game" using character building and emotion instead of violence and gore. It's still a great movie, but it wouldn't be a bad movie, if Ritchie had dialed down the violence in favor for more realism and suspense between the characters. 😎

@johnkraus457 29 күн бұрын

It is a great story about brave and resourceful warriors risking their lives for their country. The movie was a cartoonish affront to the memory of those men.

@PaulTheSkeptic 8 күн бұрын

I knew when I was watching there was no way it happened like this. But who cares? It was a kick ass movie. All movies take artistic license. If there was a movie ever 100% faithful to known events, that's a bad movie. There's no such thing as a movie that's a true story. Even those noted for their historical accuracy aren't 100% true. They have to drive a story. So always keep that in mind. If you want history, you have to read or watch a documentary. I kinda liked that no one was killed on their side. Because it works with everyone telling them they couldn't do it. The commander taking them back in the brig, expecting their military tribunal. Had a lot of people gotten hurt, it wouldn't bode well for the future of their commando team. They had the pull off the impossible was the whole point. Besides, no one got hurt in the real event.

@robertwilkinson3990 28 күн бұрын

The only historically accurate event portrayed in this movie, and in the real life of the characters, was that it took place on planet earth.

@billhobbs7077 Ай бұрын

Alan Richson cutting a bad guys heart out smells like a great plot point for Reacher season 4

@dulls8475 Ай бұрын

Is there a season 3? Mildly disappointed by season 2 compared to 1.

@billhobbs7077 Ай бұрын

@@dulls8475 season 3 is in the box already to go there's roughly 20 books in print any how, this movie was flagged

@dulls8475 Ай бұрын

@@billhobbs7077 I have read most of the books. Season 2 was not as good as 1 but that is just mu thought.

@owtnerdy1331 Ай бұрын

He was reacher playing reacher on steroids, the real Anders in the book isn't this bloodthirsty, at least at first he does go very dark in later missions when the Germans start reprisals.

@RiccardoDeRubeis Ай бұрын

My Goooood loose a little bit this is not a docu movie or a docuseries, is a fictional/Action/Adventure/Comedy movie i think that they did what they were task to do To Entertain, that´s it, if you want to know more about history read it and educate yourself

@petedudson6671 Ай бұрын

Then market it as such.

@tedarcher9120 14 күн бұрын

Why the hell they change a badass nickname - The Viking? What can be cooler than that, a danish doorknob?

@charlescooper4081 Ай бұрын

Alan Ritchson vs box office.

@kristallmenschkristallwolf1969 24 күн бұрын

another Time more is in that Movie more Fiction then Truth and thats sad

@treymoore19823 Ай бұрын

Great film

@TellySavalas-or5hf Ай бұрын

I hope they make a second part. I loved this WW2 movie. Best 2024 movie untill now.

@etsidan7003 Ай бұрын

It has always struck me as odd that the British are criticised for operations conducted in neutral countries such as Fernando Po & the Altmark incident in Norwegian waters, while ignoring the fact the Germans were using the same neutral countries for their benefit & advantage.

@RockPDX 10 күн бұрын

A good movie is a good movie! But what the (...), it would be nice to occasionally see a movie that claims to be "based on a true story" that is actually based on a true story, but without screwing with definitions of words.. (grrr)

@shanehaines4948 Ай бұрын

No different that the Americans pretending they captured the u boat with an enigma machine “U571”

@ce3586 Ай бұрын

Okay.... I really hate when people try to do a frame-to-frame comparison of the real-life actions of these people. Of course it's sensationalized and abbreviated. It's a movie meant for entertainment. It's not a documentary. "Inglorious Basterds" is based on a real-life US squad. No one thinks it's 100% true-to-life. It's a sensationalized version of actual events. I.e.: BASED on true events. Why do people feel the need to nitpick things like this? Nitpick a documentary. Don't pick apart a fictional movie based on nonfiction events? That comes across as wet blankets wanting to seem superior by pissing on someone else's fire. Stop. Being. A. Killjoy. P.S. NO ONE has EVER confised a Guy Ritchie movie as a documentary. 😂

@dusty2774 26 күн бұрын

0:11 I bet they were not this sexy back in the day!

@jameharris098 20 күн бұрын

Do you want to sleep over the hole film

@contentedbuddha Ай бұрын

Of course, the woman and the black man are fictional

@abiesdewet6910 Ай бұрын

DEI Shit !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@contentedbuddha Ай бұрын

Doesn’t matter much, most of the plot is fictional

@MarkARhodie Ай бұрын

At least she is Jewish, that will piss off the Left. lol

@petedudson6671 Ай бұрын

Good for a bit of lighthearted entertainment. Not to be taken seriously.

@nicholacousins8563 Ай бұрын

Errm it's a film 😅

@theylied1776 Ай бұрын

You are making a classic historical mistake. Not all Nazis were true believers in the Nazi cause. After Jesse Owens dominated at the Olympics in 1936, several German Officers called Jesse Ownes the Übermensch.

@CanIHasThisName 5 күн бұрын

Loosely inspired by a true story is literally the same thing as based on a true story. Neither says “exactly like the true story”, so it’s really weird to be trying to make a distinction between two interchangeable things. Based on a true story means that reality served as an inspiration for a fictional stury. Soon after that you say the movie doesn’t tell you one of the characters was an inspiration for James Bond, except the movie does tell you that. I get what the purpose of the video is, but not paying attention to the movie itself is a bad way to go about it. If you can’t get things about the movie right, how do you expect people to believe you abou the historical bits?

@davidmoore1102 Ай бұрын

It was a great film

@kitsune2858 4 күн бұрын

its fun n i like it ;0

@jdrancho1864 Ай бұрын

So the black and female characters are DEI hires to qualify the movie for Academy Award consideration. got it.

@brock_edc Ай бұрын

Fair play... this film is insulting to the real men who took served. Read the book if you want a close insight into the individuals who served. This film is pure fiction

@rolysantos Ай бұрын

Just curious, in brief, how was the movie insulting to them?

@Shinbusan Ай бұрын

Insulting. How? It's obvious it is comic book poetic, like movie 300 did not insult Leonidas and his Spartans. It makes them heroes from comic books.

@jacijune Ай бұрын

Dude it was a good action movie. That was the point. Nobody watches Hollywood action for the truth. Get over it.

@jamoco1 Ай бұрын

you need to do your own research

@zaynevanday142 Ай бұрын

Gotta have that diversity included women & Black dude 😂

@MyTimeisyourTime Ай бұрын

So it is a true event END OFF.

@csjrogerson2377 Ай бұрын

Duh! The film states "Based on a true story". "Based" can mean anything you want, it's a get out of jail free card for making up shit. "Truth" means factually correct in reality. A story has a beginning, a middle and an end with details filing in the gaps. The only truth in this story is that there was a WWII, an operation Postmaster, an island called Fernando Po, the merchant ships, the rest is made up shit. So this is "Based on a true story but is 95% made up shit". END OF, (not END OFF, duh).

@johncrook7705 21 күн бұрын

I accept we need to be entertained but really? How can you make a true story with a cast that shall we say destroys the real men who ran this operation. USA and British war missions are not a good match for the true stories or even the British brave soldiers who are not gloss actors as shown!

@csjrogerson2377 Ай бұрын

A great deal of unrealistic impossible nonsense. I was expecting a Korean nuclear sub to turn up or a B-52 fly over or someone to have a photon torpedo in his back pocket. A maritime version of the garbage, Sisu.

@wargamingchina9174 Ай бұрын

This movie is a piss take!!!

@jubbafrubby4561 29 күн бұрын

i find this movie annoying. you cant take it seriously

@dontrump9769 Ай бұрын

Film was great. This video sucks.

@minuteman3859 26 күн бұрын

The photo damian lewis used on the book cover is of the long range desert patrol group somaliland camel corp.on deployment.i do wonder who gave kind permission for the use of said photo?