Operation Mincemeat
In 1943, two British intelligence officers concoct Operation Mincemeat, wherein their plan to drop a corpse with false papers off the coast of Spain would fool Nazi spies into believing the Allied forces were planning to attack by way of Greece rather than Sicily.
- Released: 2021-11-06
- Runtime: 128 minutes
- Genre: Drama, History, War
- Stars: Colin Firth, Matthew Macfadyen, Johnny Flynn, Kelly Macdonald, Penelope Wilton, Jason Isaacs, Mark Gatiss, Hattie Morahan, Paul Ritter, Tom Wilkinson, Simon Russell Beale, Lorne MacFadyen, Markus von Lingen, Ruby Bentall, Alex Jennings, Ellie Haddington, Nicholas Rowe, Will Keen, Mark Bonnar, James Fleet, Alexander Beyer, Nico Birnbaum, Pep Tosar, Alba Brunet, Pedro Casablanc, Óscar Zafra, Javier Godino, Jonjo O'Neill, Amy Marston, Gabrielle Creevy, Simon Rouse, Paul Lancaster, Michael Bott, Charlotte Hamblin, Rufus Wright
- Director: John Madden
Comments
- tobydale - 7 January 2023
This is alright I suppose
A remake of the 1956 film The Man Who Never Was, Operation Mincemeat is alright I suppose.
Firth is always good - and he's ok here as a prime mover in a British wartime intelligence and deception department. I wanted to see more of wartime London - more images like that, I'm a sucker for that sort of thing. This film has a good underlaying (true) story and this is what basically holds it together. The attempts to give it tension don't really work. The love interest side plot verges on tedious too.
Operation Mincemeat could have been a lot better, my benchmark would be Enigma, which does everything really well.
