The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

"A dumbed down but likable World War II story."

"Couldn’t be more violent, more derivative — or more of a blast to watch."

"Even Ritchie on autopilot has him flying higher than many of his peers."

"The platonic ideal of an airplane movie, which is not exactly a good thing."

"Broadly entertaining if not fully seaworthy from a dramatic point of view."

"Stylish, cartoonishly violent, slick and relatively mindless."

"Despite its four credited screenwriters, there’s not much verbal crackle at play."

"All the swagger you'd want from a Guy Ritchie movie is completely absent here."

"Offers all kinds of collateral nonsense to pad the main nonsense."

"Never sharp enough to approach satire but also too over the top to be taken at face value."

"(It) might be forgivable if it weren’t so lazily written."

"Bro-historic fluff."

"You know what’s a boring note to play for two hours? Nonchalance."

"The biggest issue... is it doesn’t know what kind of movie it wants to be."

"In proficiently staged set pieces, Ritchie makes his own case for a bit of class."

"A total mission failure."

"(Ritchie's) best movie since The Man from U.N.C.L.E."

"Alan Ritchson steals a fun, forgettable movie."

"The movie relies on a terrific ensemble in nearly all its lead roles, apart from Churchill."

"Never dull, but it’s never terribly exciting, either, full of wisecracks that rarely crackle."

"Practices uncharacteristic restraint."