"THE MINISTRY OF UNGENTLEMANLY WARFARE" IS THE ACTION MOVIE OF 2024!!!

🎥🎞️Movie Review🎞️🎥 - THE MINISTRY OF UNGENTLEMANLY WARFARE [2024] - R - Amazon Prime - Directed by Guy Ritchie. Screenplay by Paul Tamasy, Eric Johnson, Arash Amel, Guy Ritche. Based on a book by Damien Lewis. Starring Henry Cavill, Alan Ritchson, Alex Pettyfer, Eiza Gonzalez, Til Schweiger, Henry Golding, Babs Olusanmok, and Gary Elwes. Budget $60 Million.

Based on true events and just before the official start of War War II [WWII], the German submarine fleet was being supplied for extended operations of sinking much needed supply ships headed to England. English Prime Minister Winston Churchill, is under pressure and authorizes the use of a secret, covert team [later labled "Special Forces"] who act independently from the English military law, to destroy the German's ability to resupply their submarines. With the aid of English Brigadier General Gubbins "M" [Elwes] and Admiral Iam Flemming [Freddie Fox] - the man who would eventually create the James Bond character, they enlist a group of well known mercenary misfits, led by Cavill, to plan an attack and keep the English government from being involved in their mission, which if the German's found out, could force an earlier entry into a new World War.

THE GOOD - This is a bloody, action packed film with lots of fantastic pre-WWII details in production like weapons, ships, and wardrobe. The storyline was well prepared and the dialog was perfect for the time. The cinematography is crisp and smart at times, the editing pristine, and the actors perfectly perform their parts with brilliant scripting and screenplay. I was really impressed with Guy Ritchie's directing style, which was perfect for the dark humor used in this films production with impressive pacing that keeps he movie moving along the plot at a good tempo. More extraordinarily, I was taken aback by Cavill's performance and British accent; the actor is multi-talented!

THE BAD - There's not much to complain about this movie, except that I feel that Eiza Gonzalez was miscast for this film. I think her character should have had more of a "robust figure" to fit in the time and Gonzalez was way too thin for the role.

POST MORTEM - This is the perfect "man film" and I really felt comfortable looking through the history being presented. This operation was only unclassified until recently and the writers really put a lot of heart into the production, selecting the perfect cast to make it a lovable action film. It was also great to see Ritchson playing such a solid role outside of the REACHER series. This is an outstanding action film to watch!!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫 [4.5 of 5 Stars]

AMAZON'S "REACHER" SEASON 2 DELIVERS SOLID ACTION AND DRAMA!

🎥🎞️Series Review🎞️🎥 - REACHER Season 2 [2024] - R - Amazon Prime - Series developed for TV by Nick Santora, based on the Jack Reacher book series written by Lee Child. Starring Alan Ritchson, Serinda Swan, Maria Sten, Marc Bendavid, Shaun Sipos, and Robert Patrick. Amazon has signed for at least four seasons of REACHER with the third season now in production.

A wanderer after ending his military career in the U.S. Army as a special investigator carrying only the clothes on his back, a credit card and a tooth brush, Jack Reacher [Ritchson] stumbles on a diabolical plot of a multi-million dollar illegal missile sale that questions the loyalty of some of his old Army unit members who once discovered corruption within the military ranks.

THE GOOD - Ritchson delivers another fabulous performance as Jack Reacher in this new series where there are some interesting story arcs and flashbacks on how Reacher put a band of misfits together to build a perfect investigative team of U.S. soldiers. The supporting cast were given plenty of time to develop their characters and make many of them likeable and easy to follow in each new episode. Kudos go out to actress, Serinda Swan, who not only delivers an action centered character, but solid chemistry between her character and Reacher in a sub-romantic part of the series. Location spotting was perfect for the series and the addition of Patrick as a villain was a nice twist to the show.

THE BAD - There are a few subtle slow parts in some episodes and a shoot out that just seemed to stretch too long in a realistic sequence, killing off a side character that IMO was spent too much time developing just to end up in the coroners office. Some female fans of the show may recognize that Ritchson's "total physique" may be more absent in some of the critical love scenes, which I am sure isn't getting the best of reviews.

POST MORTEM - This was an awesome series and one that I was so looking forward to previewing after reading several of the books. The climatic parts of the final episode were filled with so much electrified action scenes that a ton of green screen effects were required, but the directors handled the required CGI brilliantly. This series has distanced itself from the now infamous Tom Cruise movie series and I am sure that [in time] Ritchson's enthusiasm to play the character on the BIG SCREEN will soon catch fire.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ [5 of 5 Stars]

REACHER EMBARKS ON STEADY JOURNEY

🎥🎞Series Review🎞🎥 - REACHER - Amazon Prime - (R) - Fans of the Jim Grant (aka Lee Child) book series, JACK REACHER, are in for a real treat this year as REACHER was released in February to some stunning and action packed episodes in its season one debut. Led by a new and tremendously athletic actor, Alan Ritchson as Jack Reacher, this new series follows in detail the first book in the Grant series entitled, ”The Killing Fields” which introduces fans to the simple life of a hobo-type traveler with extensive military experience and deeply entrenched investigative skills, who has a history of being at the wrong place and at the right time.

The series is well developed and presented to viewers with precision story telling and character developments which make you feel comfortable with the direction of the show at each new turn in the story. Kudos go out to Willa Fitzgerald, who plays Deputy Roscoe, and does an impressive job assisting Reacher in his introduction into the show. She’s definitely presented herself as a formidable and sexy police officer that has more to offer than just a natural sense of duty to uphold the law; and to Malcolm Goodwin, who plays Police Detective Oscar Finlay, a hard nosed investigator who rubs Reacher the wrong way at first, but whose true colors surface after they both begin to work together to solve a case of murders.

Season one was well produced, well located to fit the narrative of Grant's intended character description; at this point I will agree with JACK REACHER fans that Tom Cruise may have had the right temperament for the character, but not the right size and massiveness described in Grant's books to sustain a realistic preview of what the actual character has to offer readers and future fans of the series.

I would recommend you to read the JACK REACHER books before you watch the series, but in this day and age of the mindset that reading is just way to painful to endure, be sure to avoid the JACK REACHER movie with Cruise before watching this series, you will be pleasantly surprised at the new reboot of the character!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ [4 of 5 Stars]