I rewatched U.N.C.L.E. over Christmas, along with this one for the first time. That scene with Alicia Vikander and Armie Hammer in the hotel room, as she dances around the room, just does it for me. Also, the boat chase scene with that beautiful Italian song playing, I find so mournful and really reaffirms what the characters are all about. (Armie Hammer has a podcast of course, and he's explained what he really said that people misinterpreted, and I genuinely feel for the guy).
Yes, that is Ian Fleming. The author of the James Bond novels. He was in British military intelligence during World War II. After the war it branched off into two divisions... one called MI5 and the other MI6. This story is about 40% accurate. And Ian Fleming based James Bond on three of the characters in this movie.
People in Hollywood said this bombed but it was given a very limited run in America only !!! In a handful of cinemas only , it's a British film about real British soldiers about the real man James bond copied by Ian Fleming directed by guy Ritchie and we in UK couldn't go to see it on big screen , no wonder it didn't make money almost as if Hollywood can't risk people showing the films we really want to see
It has re-affirmed my hatred of the modern studio system and general movie going audiences. When drek like the fiftieth Wolverine movie with Ryan (barf) Reynolds makes a billion dollars, and films like this go unnoticed, it makes me legitimately sad for what we have lost. Storytelling is so integral to the human experience, and by extension movies are a wonderful outlet for that. I don't consider most superhero movies storytelling in the Jungian sense.
I also think that Cavill was negotiating his Warhammer series at the time this came out and having him as a bankable star would have made it harder to short change him and get their way!
There was a soldier during World War II who fight for the British that fought Nazis with a Bow and Arrow and a Bowie knife. His name was Mad Jack Churchill.
@timholder6825 You might want to look it up. There were several eccentric soldiers fighting for the British. Mad Jack Churchill used a bow and arrow and a Bowie knife on the battlefield.
@@theylied1776 Actually, according to Wiki: 'Nicknamed "Fighting Jack Churchill" and "Mad Jack", he fought in the Second World War with a basket-hilted Scottish broadsword, and a set of bagpipes. He has been mythologised as having also used a longbow, but according to an interview given by Churchill, the bow was destroyed when run over by a lorry before he could put it to use.'
Operation Mincemeat is perhaps another one to check out. A true story about another mental British operation, also featuring Ian Flemming. A lot more serious than this, but a great film.
People compared Guy Ritchie to Quentin Tarantino. Guy did, Lock Stock, Quentin did Reservoir Dogs. Guy did Snatch. Quentin did Pulp Fiction. Guy did this. Quentin did Inglorious Basterds. It's like they're mirroring each other in their own styles. I don't rate Kill Bill, or The Gentleman. Quentin then went westerns. Guy went Sherlock Holmes. Could there be more of an epitome of UK vs. USA.
Awesome! Thanks Chrissie! 😁 Ian Fleming was actually in the British Secret Service during the war and James Bond was based on people he knew. This is a highly fictionalized retelling of what he actually did however but still great fun.
@@chrissiereacts I heard it explained that this guy Major Gus and a Balkan spy was both the inspiration for bond; Duško Popov a Serbian intelligence agent who served as a double agent for MI6 during World War II. Feigning to be an asset of the German Abwehr, he passed off disinformation to Germany. famouse for dinking and womanizing with high ranked germans.
Brilliant Movie Guy Ritchies talents are epic in directing this type of ilm and playing actors in new types of roles, Also Guy Ritchie created a mini series of the Matthew McConaughey's Movie "The Gentlemen" which is just as good as the film and dives deeper into the goings on
I thoroughly enjoy Guy Ritchies style. I make an effort to watch any of his work. Hopefully you react to Rocknroller and Wrath of Man. Another 2 excellent additions.
Chrissie I love your reactions if you ever have space for a new series to react to please consider watching Fargo, there are 5 seasons but each season is it's own story and all of them are great. I believe you would really enjoy its dark humour it also has a host of well known actors Bob Odenkirk, Chris Rock, Billy Bob Thornton, Kirsten Dunst, Ewan McGregor & Ted Danson to name just a few.
Another fantastic Guy Richie movie. Are you Going to do RocknRolla please? I know you've done a lot of Guy Richie movies but a real Rocknrolla wants the fn lot.
I haven't seen this movie, but I'm not sure you're supposed to almost die of laughter at the scene where Henry Cavill and Alan Ritchson slaughter everyone..! 😅
I saw a lot of people can this movie, but I liked it. As you said, it was a fun movie. If you liked this, then you should check out the series 'SAS Rogue Heroes'. Season 2 just released.
Although the result of the mission was the same, with the three ships stolen, during the real mission, no shots were fired, and no one died, but that would have made a pretty boring movie. Later in the war Anders Lasen transferred from the Special Operations Executive to the granddaddy of all military special forces, the SAS or Special Air Service. He died in Italy about 10 days before Germany surrendered. He was shot while accepting the surrender d of a German bunker
Unfortunately, most of the heroes shown in this movie did not survive the war. I wish the movie would have honored that in the ending but it would have made for a depressing end to a movie.
Yeah, it's not Mr. Maddona's best work, but an "enjoyable romp" covers it. Drink beer switch off brain, laugh along and watch pretty fireworks. It's ok, the sort of film you can watch with mates talking through it. Yes, this is loosely based on real people and events - Fleming included.
@@chrissiereacts it's fun + bombastic. Scraping in at the end of last year - A Different Man should be seen, I've watched it once so far and I'll leave it to digest, but wow. Then again, I really enjoyed Joker: Folie...
@@Psilocybin77 fun movies? this movie sucks not because its not dark and gritty, but because its edgelordy and pretentious, which is the worst kind of "DARK AND GRITTY", this is not even fun for guy ritchie standard, (are you one of those unrealistic fan who is still waiting for henry cavil to be in a successful movie? well, dont hold your breath while waiting, because its never going to happen) i would rather hollywood give chances to more unknowns than a known names making movies they halfheartedly want to make
@ you highlight a huge problem with the internet. You treat opinion as incontrovertible fact, and yours is the correct one. You also make all sorts of wildly inaccurate assumptions based on your own OPINION. None of what you say has any basis in my previous statement. I like Cavill fine, but I have no stake in him. Finally, if you think this is dark and pretentious, I’m assuming you’ve been raised almost entirely on Disney products and milk toast.
Guy Ritchie films are not only a blast to watch, they are a master class in tight efficient editing, the timing is impeccable.
True story: the last confirmed casualty to an English Long bow was a German sentry in ww2, fired by a soldier named “Mad Jack” Churchill.
Guy Ritchie and Henry Cavill work really well together. You would also love The Man From UNCLE, their first collab.
Man from uncle just as much cool
I rewatched U.N.C.L.E. over Christmas, along with this one for the first time. That scene with Alicia Vikander and Armie Hammer in the hotel room, as she dances around the room, just does it for me. Also, the boat chase scene with that beautiful Italian song playing, I find so mournful and really reaffirms what the characters are all about. (Armie Hammer has a podcast of course, and he's explained what he really said that people misinterpreted, and I genuinely feel for the guy).
@Psilocybin77 The boat chase is my favorite scene! 🥪
@@LordVolkov Also the song "Peppino Gagliardi - Che vuole questa musica stasera" so beautiful....
@@Psilocybin77 Even in a period piece, Ritchie nails the needle drops
Since you loved this, you might just like a short series called SAS rogue heroes too ;)
Yes, that is Ian Fleming. The author of the James Bond novels. He was in British military intelligence during World War II. After the war it branched off into two divisions... one called MI5 and the other MI6.
This story is about 40% accurate. And Ian Fleming based James Bond on three of the characters in this movie.
Also creator of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, the most badass car ever.
People in Hollywood said this bombed but it was given a very limited run in America only !!! In a handful of cinemas only , it's a British film about real British soldiers about the real man James bond copied by Ian Fleming directed by guy Ritchie and we in UK couldn't go to see it on big screen , no wonder it didn't make money almost as if Hollywood can't risk people showing the films we really want to see
It has re-affirmed my hatred of the modern studio system and general movie going audiences. When drek like the fiftieth Wolverine movie with Ryan (barf) Reynolds makes a billion dollars, and films like this go unnoticed, it makes me legitimately sad for what we have lost. Storytelling is so integral to the human experience, and by extension movies are a wonderful outlet for that. I don't consider most superhero movies storytelling in the Jungian sense.
Did it even play in movie theatres? I thought it was solely available on the Amazon Prime Video platform?
I stumbled across the full hd movie, a print not a cinema filmed rip off - here on youtube literally a day after release and it stayed up for weeks.
I also think that Cavill was negotiating his Warhammer series at the time this came out and having him as a bankable star would have made it harder to short change him and get their way!
There was a soldier during World War II who fight for the British that fought Nazis with a Bow and Arrow and a Bowie knife. His name was Mad Jack Churchill.
Nope, broadsword.
@timholder6825 You might want to look it up. There were several eccentric soldiers fighting for the British. Mad Jack Churchill used a bow and arrow and a Bowie knife on the battlefield.
@@theylied1776 Actually, according to Wiki: 'Nicknamed "Fighting Jack Churchill" and "Mad Jack", he fought in the Second World War with a basket-hilted Scottish broadsword, and a set of bagpipes. He has been mythologised as having also used a longbow, but according to an interview given by Churchill, the bow was destroyed when run over by a lorry before he could put it to use.'
I love that you react to the things no one else does but should!
😊
Jack Churchill aka "Mad Jack", was an English ww2 soldier who also used a bow and arrow, and a sword.
It was sailors. Lieutenant is pronounced “lootenant” in the Navy and “leftenant” in the Army and RAAF (Air Force).
Operation Mincemeat is perhaps another one to check out. A true story about another mental British operation, also featuring Ian Flemming. A lot more serious than this, but a great film.
People compared Guy Ritchie to Quentin Tarantino. Guy did, Lock Stock, Quentin did Reservoir Dogs. Guy did Snatch. Quentin did Pulp Fiction. Guy did this. Quentin did Inglorious Basterds. It's like they're mirroring each other in their own styles. I don't rate Kill Bill, or The Gentleman. Quentin then went westerns. Guy went Sherlock Holmes. Could there be more of an epitome of UK vs. USA.
Yay you're back
Loved your reaction to the movie
Awesome! Thanks Chrissie! 😁 Ian Fleming was actually in the British Secret Service during the war and James Bond was based on people he knew. This is a highly fictionalized retelling of what he actually did however but still great fun.
Very cool!
hey I’m Ryan I have a movie request Austin powers international man of mystery and if you can please wear gloves to
@@chrissiereacts I heard it explained that this guy Major Gus and a Balkan spy was both the inspiration for bond; Duško Popov a Serbian intelligence agent who served as a double agent for MI6 during World War II. Feigning to be an asset of the German Abwehr, he passed off disinformation to Germany. famouse for dinking and womanizing with high ranked germans.
Brilliant Movie Guy Ritchies talents are epic in directing this type of ilm and playing actors in new types of roles, Also Guy Ritchie created a mini series of the Matthew McConaughey's Movie "The Gentlemen" which is just as good as the film and dives deeper into the goings on
I thoroughly enjoy Guy Ritchies style. I make an effort to watch any of his work.
Hopefully you react to Rocknroller and Wrath of Man. Another 2 excellent additions.
Chrissie I love your reactions if you ever have space for a new series to react to please consider watching Fargo, there are 5 seasons but each season is it's own story and all of them are great. I believe you would really enjoy its dark humour it also has a host of well known actors Bob Odenkirk, Chris Rock, Billy Bob Thornton, Kirsten Dunst, Ewan McGregor & Ted Danson to name just a few.
If you loved this, check out the series Rogue Heroes (or SAS: Rogue Heroes in the UK).
The TV show is far superior imo. I found the film too cartoonish.
Next up-Operation Fortune. Also, from Guy Ritchie.
the Royal Navy does have lieutenants.
Please watch the bloopers 😊
Another fantastic Guy Richie movie. Are you Going to do RocknRolla please? I know you've done a lot of Guy Richie movies but a real Rocknrolla wants the fn lot.
11:12 Hugo Stiglitz
yes ian fleming, creator of james bond, was a real intelligence operative in ww2 :) thats why bond is so realistic lol
I haven't seen this movie, but I'm not sure you're supposed to almost die of laughter at the scene where Henry Cavill and Alan Ritchson slaughter everyone..! 😅
They were naz*s! 😂
@chrissiereacts fair point 😂
If you liked Alan Ritchson (the guy with the bow and arrows) in this, you would love the Reacher Show. two seasons out and a third coming.
this film should have done better at the box office....such a great flick
I loved this movie, moreover that its based on a real story, loosely, but indeed it is :D
16:47 Good catch!
In the Navy it is is Lootenant. In the Army it is Leftenant....
Oh! I never realised, thanks!
It's also different pronunciation between American and British English speakers.
Not in Britain.
Great film 😂
I saw a lot of people can this movie, but I liked it. As you said, it was a fun movie. If you liked this, then you should check out the series 'SAS Rogue Heroes'. Season 2 just released.
Although the result of the mission was the same, with the three ships stolen, during the real mission, no shots were fired, and no one died, but that would have made a pretty boring movie. Later in the war Anders Lasen transferred from the Special Operations Executive to the granddaddy of all military special forces, the SAS or Special Air Service. He died in Italy about 10 days before Germany surrendered. He was shot while accepting the surrender d of a German bunker
Shooting someone during a surrender is a massive dick move.
@@Shoomer88 Totally agree, Anders's men took exception to it too, I'll leave the details to your imagination!
Unfortunately, most of the heroes shown in this movie did not survive the war. I wish the movie would have honored that in the ending but it would have made for a depressing end to a movie.
Yeah, it's not Mr. Maddona's best work, but an "enjoyable romp" covers it. Drink beer switch off brain, laugh along and watch pretty fireworks.
It's ok, the sort of film you can watch with mates talking through it.
Yes, this is loosely based on real people and events - Fleming included.
Pretty much what I'm looking for out of a movie lol
@@chrissiereacts it's fun + bombastic.
Scraping in at the end of last year - A Different Man should be seen, I've watched it once so far and I'll leave it to digest, but wow.
Then again, I really enjoyed Joker: Folie...
Well worth a read, while you're at the bookshop "Operation Mincemeat" by Ben Macintyre, another slice of ingenuity, deceit and cunning.
Man we are a long way from the character of Hugo Stiglitz. 😪
you know this film is about 80% fantasy right :)
Happy New Year. Ahem, watch Strange Days 😂
this is such a bad movie...there's no stakes, every "good guy" in this is too OP to make it an interesting story, watch SAS Rogue Heroes instead
not every fkin movie needs to be dark and gritty, or a deconstruction of the genre. Remember "FUN" movies?
@@Psilocybin77 fun movies? this movie sucks not because its not dark and gritty, but because its edgelordy and pretentious, which is the worst kind of "DARK AND GRITTY", this is not even fun for guy ritchie standard, (are you one of those unrealistic fan who is still waiting for henry cavil to be in a successful movie? well, dont hold your breath while waiting, because its never going to happen) i would rather hollywood give chances to more unknowns than a known names making movies they halfheartedly want to make
@ you highlight a huge problem with the internet. You treat opinion as incontrovertible fact, and yours is the correct one. You also make all sorts of wildly inaccurate assumptions based on your own OPINION. None of what you say has any basis in my previous statement. I like Cavill fine, but I have no stake in him. Finally, if you think this is dark and pretentious, I’m assuming you’ve been raised almost entirely on Disney products and milk toast.
Please do not respond I have you muted.
Chrissie you should do Argylle movie.