A Brutal ‘Unhinged’ Moment In Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare Was Improvised By Henry Cavill – SlashFilm

The film’s first trailer features two moments in which Cavill’s character mows down some Nazis while doing his best Gene Simmons impersonation, and one even pops up again in the first seconds of the Youtube version as one of those teaser-for-a-trailer intros that’s so popular these days. It’s a small detail, but one that makes the movie seem noticeably more outlandish — which, in a Ritchie film, isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

According to Cavill, the improvised gesture helped inform his and Ritchie’s idea of the former’s character going forward. “That was the first moment where we decided Gus was going to be slightly unhinged in these moments, and that makes it more fun,” he told Variety. It’s true: there are plenty of movies with characters killing Nazis, but not that many that include a signature (the ragtag, justice-seeking killers of “Inglorious Basterds” are the cool exception that proves the rule). While /Film’s Jeremy Mathai didn’t much care for “Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare” overall, he also notes in his review that the ungentlemanly crew of the title is made up of “unstoppable (and impossibly charismatic) killing machines.”