- War, History, Drama
- 128 min
- PG-13
Rotten Tomatoes83%Metacritic65IMDb6.6
Deception. The greatest weapon in war.
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.
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Classical in form, resolved, plot-driven and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
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- The GuardianXan BrooksApr 2022★★★★★Operation Mincemeat review – Blimpish take on Ben Macintyre’s spy thriller
Colin Firth, Matthew Macfadyen and Kelly Macdonald provide some ballast in John Madden’s overburdened adaptation
- The New York TimesLena WilsonMay 2022‘Operation Mincemeat’ Review: A Bland Hash
In this World War II drama from Netflix, a team of spies uses a vagrant’s corpse to outwit the Nazis.
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Cast
- Colin FirthEwen Montagu
- Matthew MacfadyenCharles Cholmondeley
- Kelly MacdonaldJean Leslie
- Penelope WiltonHester Leggett
- Johnny FlynnIan Fleming
- Jason IsaacsAdmiral John Godfrey
- Mark GatissIvor Montazac
- Hattie MorahanIris Montazac
- Paul RitterBentley Purchase
- Simon Russell BealeWinston Churchill
Crew
- John MaddenDirector
- Michelle AshfordWriter
- Sebastian BlenkovDirector of Photography
- Thomas NewmanOriginal Music Composer
- Victoria BoydellEditor
- Iain CanningProducer
- Emile ShermanProducer
- Kris ThykierProducer
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