Alan Ritchson’s The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare Lands on Peacock

Alan Ritchson appears in Guy Ritchie’s World War II action-comedy The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, which is now streaming on Peacock. The film has been framed as a spiritual successor to Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds. The story follows Winston Churchill’s initiative to fight Nazis through underhanded means — a real unit that relied on subterfuge, spies and murder rather than conventional rules of engagement.

Those methods risked disavowal by the British government and imprisonment if discovered, and they fuel a high-octane narrative full of blood and explosions. Henry Cavill plays Gus March-Philips, a misanthropic commander who brings his own wildly unconventional squad, while Ritchson portrays Danish archer Anders Lassen, eager for as many Nazi hearts as he can get.

Cavill’s antics mix comic brutality with the rest of the squad’s outrageous behavior, and Ritchson gets to flex comedic chops alongside the violence and winked-at-audience tone.

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