Operation Mincemeat

* * * * M 2021 - War/Drama - 2h 8m

During WWII two intelligence officers use a corpse and false papers to outwit German troops.

It's 1943. The Allies are determined to break Hitler's grip on occupied Europe and plan an all-out assault on Sicily; but they face an impossible challenge -- how to protect a massive invasion force from potential massacre. It falls to two remarkable intelligence officers Ewen Montagu (Colin Firth) and Charles Cholmondeley (Matthew Macfadyen) to dream the most inspired and improbable disinformation strategy of the war -- centered on the most unlikely of secret agents: a dead man. Operation Mincemeat is the extraordinary and true story of an idea that hoped to alter the course of the war -- defying logic risking countless thousands of lives and testing the nerves of its creators to breaking point.

Operation Mincemeat is available only for streaming on Netflix starting from May 11 2022

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84% TOMATOMETER
65% AUDIENCE SCORE

Review

I'm afraid many of the reviews we found were by grumpy reviewers expecting the next Apocalypse Now. We found the movie to be engaging and enjoyable.

If its fact-based story proves more fascinatingly outlandish than it's presented here Operation Mincemeat remains an engaging and well-acted wartime drama.

I have a sweet tooth for this sort of historical re-enactment when it's done well... and "Operation Mincemeat" is well done without being overdone.