Deborah Ross

Mostly gripping – and boasts not one but two Mr Darcys: Operation Mincemeat reviewed

A classic tale of British second world war derring-do and the sort of film you’ll watch with your dad on a Sunday afternoon

Boasts not one but two Mr Darcys: Matthew Macfadyen as Charles Cholmondeley, Colin Firth as Ewan Montagu and Johnny Flynn as Ian Fleming in Operation Mincemeat 
issue 16 April 2022
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Operation Mincemeat is based on the book by Ben Macintyre, which in turn is based on what Sir Hugh Trevor-Roper called ‘the most spectacular single episode in the history of deception’. It is so spectacular that the film doesn’t have to do much aside from tell it, and that’s what it does, straightforwardly, plainly, no bells and whistles.

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