A group of renegade operatives is sent by Churchill himself to Africa to sabotage the Nazi U-Boat supply line. This is supposedly based on a true story that changed the course of the Allied war in the Atlantic before the United States joined in.

Think Ocean’s Eleven in Britain during World War II, except that they are not breaking into a casino, they are putting their lives on the line for their country. Since it’s a black operation, there is almost no way to win. If they fail, they get killed by the Nazis. If they succeed, they get arrested by their own country for disobeying orders.

Ungentlemanly Warfare is definitely an action movie. There is a lot of shooting and slicing and stabbing going on, where five fighters take on an entire army, sort of like in the Rambo movies. The heroes somehow never get killed, but they put away Nazis like I’d be swatting mosquitoes.

While it’s unrealistic, it’s surprisingly entertaining. I found myself rooting for the underdog as they fought against impossible odds to pull off a crazy plan that no sensible person would ever sign up for.

Could this really have been based on a true story? It made me want to look it up in the history books.