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The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare Lives Up to Title, and Did Good

Guy Ritchie 's latest direction escapade, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare , was a good feat with jazzy scoring, scene stealing by Eiza González , and good-hearted rebellious heroism courtesy of Henry Cavill and Alan Ritchson, whom you may/may not have forgotten was Raphael in the 2014-16 live-action Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies. Set in the early 1940s, the film tells a fictionalized tale of Operation Postmaster. Similar to Magnificent Seven, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill sets up the operation as a black ops group where several unconventional warriors were to thwart Nazi warships receiving supplies and help the United Kingdom effort in World War II .  While it was funny in the beginning with Cavill and Ritchson as Gus March-Phillipps and Anders Lassen outsmarting the Nazis with commando initiative and humor, the real appeal in the film came to me with Eiza González as Special Ops Executive agent Marjorie Stewart . I haven't heard a lot about females...