Pretty cool and attractive cast, too bad half feel wasted. The energy of this was low, think had it been more chaotic and more time in getting to know the characters this could've been way better. Henry Cavill seemed like he was having fun so that's nice to see. Overall meh. Could've been much, much better.

Charming. And those who wanted or want Henry Cavill to be James Bond, well, in a clever way here it is.

I do agree though that I wish it kept up the pace of the opening third. Maybe they thought it'd be too exhausting or they thought audiences wouldn't find him to be easy to root for, but any craziness Cavill shows kind of disappears.

Minor complaint: I like the score, but it’s weird it’s trying to ape a western/Ennio Morricone and Quentin Tarantino’s use of his music in Inglourious Basterds when it maybe should’ve been a little closer to John Barry.

Also, I wonder why they went with an R-rating for this. It feels like it was shot with a PG-13 in mind but they added in the heart rip and a couple of throat slicings, all of which could've been edited out since it was CGI blood anyways.

Anyways it's still my favorite movie of the year so far which is not saying much.

B+

A

Had a fun time watching Nazis get killed in multiple ways

Eh, found this pretty boring. Watching nazis get killed is always fun, but there just wasn't much else going on here and you can get the nazi scalps in plenty of other places. Needed more stars besides Cavill.

3/10

As a Ritchie fan I wasn't not going to check this out and with Cavill headlining as a nazi-killing soldier this sounded very good. The result isn't quite that, it's decent, it's fun, but it's all a bit too casual. I feel Ritchie was trying to bank too much on the knowing that Nazi's and Hitler were bad and doesn't make the effort to build them up as much of a threat. Then the ragtag team of spies fighting them is a bunch of characters without much depth either, with best one probably being Ritchson's Larssen, he plays a good Swede. Eiza González shines as well as the lone feminine presence, it just doesn't amount to an epic war film. And the Churchill character is a bit of a misfire, maybe the great Gary Oldman set the bar high, and I like Kinnear, but there's no aplomb in his role. Still, this is fine, there's a decent story of a covert World War II operation underneath it and it's just light on its feet and not a bad watch at all either. Just, Ritchie has done better and this is more of a dime a dozen feature from him.

B-