The film is let down by the lack of truly but punch powerful scenes, there's a moment or two that I think with a slight script rewrite, or more powerful acting/direction, would have really made this an exceptional movie. Colin Firth and Kelly MacDonald do a good job, Penelope Wilson does a great job, everyone else gets a passing grade, no one is awful, which is really important for such a significant story as one bad performance in a war movie can totally take you out.
It was also sad to see what I presume is the last film for Paul Ritter, he really was starting to get a lot of roles before his untimely death, really sad situation.
Operation Mincemeat is an incredible tale that unfortunately could've been told better. Let's do spoiler talk, 7/10.
SPOILERS AHEAD GET READY TO LIE TO HITLER
Imagine being one of the soldiers in Italy, ready for a big scrap only to be met by like 10 Italians, you'd be so confused.
Oh and I can't believe to win WW2 one of our spies had to wank off a German. You don't see that in Bond do you? Can't imagine Daniel Craig or Roger Moore doing that to save the day. Also nice touch of this movie to have Ian Fleming typing his little Bond novels away in the corner, good stuff.
Also, I'm not sure if it was a spoiler at all so save it til here but maaan how good a job did Simon Russel Beale do as Winston Churchill? I really liked his portrayal. It reminded me of Darkest Hour, a honestly brilliant WW2 film that really shows the truest representation of Churchill (I think anyway I dunno I wasn't there).
But that representation is basically just a drunk man that smoked a big cigar, made decisions and refused to be swayed by his advisors. This makes a terrible prime minister in all occasions but wartime, in which it's absolutely incredible and it's really impossible not to love the scenes of this drunk man that just seems so cross and impossible to reason with.
This films truest strength to me is actually in how it shows living during the war. I really felt for Colin Firth and Kelly MacDonald, like everyone is going through all this grief and people are separated from their loved ones and during all this stress it must have been hard not to seek that comfort in the arms of someone else, even if you knew it was wrong. Don't cheat on ya wife though.
Like, to sell these lies even the newspapers will have been lying to our own people. So you'd be reading one day like oh sick we are gonna go to Greece for a fight hope we win, then eventually you'd hear we took Sicily and you'd be like eh what happened to Greece did we win that fight?
Oh and just how tragic is it that the guy who died's sister rocks up when it's far too late to go back, so they lie, they bribe, they do anything they can to just get her to fuck off. It's so sad. But the fact this man did so much for his country in death, it's kinda beautiful. I hope his sister somehow found out one day that what he did led to us killing Hitler.
Yeah, it's definitely the main strength of this movie how it depicts the struggles of the characters. Even Matthew Macfayden's character who is on a very small level jealous of Colin Firth getting the girl, but also has a grieving mother that wants her sons body back, and he also has this complex about how his brother is viewed as a hero and the favourite and he's doing this covert work that he can't share but is going to be so amazing but his mother probably just thinks he sucks and man it's tough.
And then you get why he's spy on Colin Firth because he gets this chance to be the hero to his mum and... Yeah it's tough. I like how Firths character just gets it though at the end, he's like yeah my brother sucks a bit, you have your own stuff, let me come to your brother's funeral and have a pint at 8am- I'm sure spoons is open.
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