The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (2024) review

German U-boats are causing a serious problem for the English during World War II, so Prime Minister Winston Churchill (Rory Kinnear) recruits Gus March-Phillipps (Henry Cavill) to put a super-secret group together, which includes Anders Lassen (Alan Ritchson) and Geoffrey Appleyard (Alex Pettyfer), to sail to the island of Fernando Po (which is off the coast of Cameroon) and destroy the supply ship Duchessa d'Aosta, with ever-present German officer Heinrich Luhr (Til Schweiger) there to stop them.  Since the beginning of his career, director Ritchie has more or less "borrowed" from Quentin Tarantino, and here he's unimaginatively recycling Inglourious Basterds - Schweiger is "playing" the Christoph Waltz character while Cavill and Ritchson are stepping in for Brad Pitt and Eli Roth - except setting a significant portion of it at sea ... but he's never had a particularly good ear for dialogue and the movie's mostly a slog - Eiza González is in there to vainly try to add a "feminine touch" to the aching machismo, but it's devoid of energy unless there's bloodshed involved (via stabbings or machine gun fire).  It's supposedly "based on true events" - the actual raid was known as Operation Postmaster - but it might have been better off without the snarky, cartoonish presentation.