Operation Mincemeat (2022)
Directed by John Madden
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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What critics compared Operation Mincemeat to
The attachment of a personal story made Operation Mincemeat seem like it was trying to copy The Imitation Game .
Based on a novel by Ben Macintyre and adapted by Michelle Ashford, the film recalls other wartime British thrillers, such as Their Finest, The Imitation Game, and most recently, Darkest Hour.
Couple that with the calibre of war films that us Brits deliver – The Imitation Game , 1917 and The Reader to name but a few – and I knew that John Madden’s Operation Mincemeat was going to be right up my street.
Joining a laundry list of titles about behind-the-scenes ingenuity that helped win WWII, think “The Imitation Game” or “The Darkest Hour,” “Operation Mincemeat” manages to hold down the fort even when its own clunky storytelling (and lengthy runtime) can sometimes stand in the way.
Ranging from big action thrillers ( Dunkirk ) to the tense cerebral mind games of espionage and tactics like The Imitation Game , all while tugging at the heartstrings.
After the roaring success of Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk comes another attempt from Warner Brothers with Operation Mincemeat , directed by John Madden.