Guy Ritchie’s latest feature, with the most Guy Ritche-esque title ever, The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, had its premiere in New York, which was proudly supported via the Red Sea Film Foundation through its Red Sea International Film Financing initiative.
Standing amongst the star studded cast – Henry Cavill, Alan Ritchson, Eiza Gonzalez, and Henry Golding – was the founder of the Red Sea Film Festival, and recent Esquire Middle East cover star, Mohammed Al Turki.
The film, set during WWII, is about the British military recruiting a group of highly skilled soldiers to clandestinely attack the Germans. This plot seems like an even more tongue-in-cheek approach to Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, where a gang of American mercenaries led by Brad Pitt, brutally murder Nazis. But as Ritchie and Tarantino have often been compared over their similar usage of iconic soundtracks, quippy dialogue, and violence, one can only imagine this film will hit all the right spots for fans of this genre.
The recent Ritchie vehicle intertwines all of the elements for which he is best known: English (un)gentleman, guns, snappy remarks, and a terrific, rock’n’roll soundtrack, with many hailing it as Ritchie’s best film since The Man from U.N.C.L.E., which starred Henry Cavill, who now returns in front of Ritchie’s camera lens yet again.
Henry Golding appeared in Ritchie’s The Gentlemen, but did not reprise his role in the recent Netflix series of the same name.
The film is in cinemas in the Middle East on April 18 and internationally on April 19.
