Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

Based on the best selling military history book of the same title by Damien Lewis, the movie is a stylish, fun, violent romp in typical Guy Ritchie fashion. Based on a true WW2 mission called Operation Postmaster, where one of the first British special forces operations took place. One that is to disrupt German U-boat attacks in the North Atlantic at a critical moment in the war. 

The individuals on the team are wild, eccentric, disobedient, borderline psychotic but skilled and well trained. Unconventional and absolutely “mad.” When the hero asked why he was chosen as “we both know I am not very popular with the administration.”

The officer responds: “the reason they find you unattractive is why I find you attractive.”

An even better description of this team is stated  by Churchill himself: 

“You were not chosen for your conspicuous honor, or your high ideals. You were chosen because you’re the last resort. The mission you have been given has never been undertaken before. 

It demands …..ruthless men who will not hesitate to stoop beneath the conventions of war. Men who do not keep clean hands. Men like you. And yet who still conspire in their dischordant harmony who do not care they may not return.

And who press onwards not for glory or for duty, or for me but because you are men who will not stop until it is done.”

Sometimes you need crazy nutters to do the impossible. Kind of reminds me of startup entrepreneurs. Unconventional people who never give up.