This was a good movie. The unexpected turn of events after using a corpse to pass false information to the Germans was very interesting. A successful endeavor used again for D-Day.

I really didn't like this version, having seen "The Man Who Never Was" back in the 1950s. The real life story itself is fascinating, and was very well portrayed back in 1956. This remake I found more like a tedious soap opera, more about the character played by Colin Firth and his mates. It is a long film, dragged out with irrelevant material. After about an hour, when very little about the actual events had happened, I abandoned it. A pity, since I enjoyed "The Man Who Never Was" as an 11 year old.

How any war film can be so boring is beyond me.

I really enjoyed the story that I knew little about. Incredible what they went through to try to pull of the ruse and more incredible that it worked. I felt the love story between the two leads was forced and thought it another "Midway" type add-in, but did read that historians believe it to be true (not the triangle, just the two) and later in life Jean did not confirm or deny the relationship. I did not feel the triangle angle was needed nor the mysterious German spy that appears at her house at one point, which has no factual basis. (Really, the actual story is intriguing enough. The need the writers/directors feel to add subplots like this to "based on history" movies is maddening. Overlook those two points and it is a lovely flick for a WWII buff.

A very intriguing film and comparable to the original. I love fact based movies and find this one exceptional

A solid enough movie that doesn't really hit any great heights. At times the pacing can be a bit slow and the romantic subplots did seem a little unnecessary.

This film is at its best when focusing on the details of the real story. The tension and jeopardy in the second half is palpable. Sadly, they decided to pad it out with an unnecessary love story.

Has all the components of an excellent true war story - but it is so SLOW, the romantic elements so contrived and implausible and the details so slack and un-thought-out: would a top secret plan ilke Mincemeat be discussed in the Gargoyle Club? Amazing that a war plot as gripping as Operation Mincemeat should be made into a film this dull.

Could have been an hour shorter.

Watched this in the cinema when it came out and again at home last night. The positives were that they stuck quite closely to the facts and represented the real people in the story really well. When I looked up the true story, I found that all the things that were negative distractions, or didn’t work in the film just happened to be the made up bits. This story would have been much stronger without the speculative love triangle, the expansion of Jean’s role (she was less involved in reality), and the subsequent downplaying of the other female team members - the code breakers and Hester’s stories could have been developed more. The comic British spy who seduces his way around Spain was also unnecessary. Film-makers consistently fail to understand that a true story can be told well, without invented elements. Still a good film, though.

This is the second or third time I've seen this movie, and it still captivates me in a way I think could be missed if you're not paying attention. It is a significant story told through the depth and intellect of its characters, as developed by very detailed writing, and is most definitely a slow-burner. The intrigue and suspense come as the story presses on, becoming bigger and more important as it does so. The source material being what it is, the prologue adds a sheen to the gravitas the film manages to achieve by the end

'The man who never was' 1956 was the first version of this WW2 event. Much better than the 2021 version. Cast are all talent but the movie let them down. Started at a slow pace and never really got going.

The operation itself was real and history making. This film does a good job walking the audience through the mission and all the stress, planning, and tradecraft needed to pull off such a monumental military deception. Unfortunately the film's subplots were not as interesting. The main character seemingly having a crush on a secretary when he is married with kids? Who cares. The movie would have been better if it just focused on the mission. That being said history fans will mostly likely enjoy it overall.

A fantastic cast really underpins this historical drama. Telling the story of one of the great Allied ploys to fool the Nazis ahead of the D-Day landings, it really goes to show how much could have gone wrong...and there were so many other moving pieces I was not aware of. Highly recommended to those who enjoy a well executed war drama.

A good World War II espionage thriller based on the true story of British Intelligence's plan to deceive the Nazi's into thinking that the Allies were going to invade Greece instead of Sicily (Operation Husky) in 1943.

It is a good movie with a fantastic cast. The development of the story can be slow at times only showing behind the scenes events with lots of dialogue, overall interesting but lacked that "something" that make films great.

3.5 stars; I can understand the criticisms of this film. Like many Brit documentaries, it does move slowly and takes too long to build up excitement that we are so used to in today's action flicks. Because this film was based on a book written by an author who researched the Operation. I enjoyed this film almost for those reasons it was criticized. I don't mind a movie taking its time to get to the tension point if the time is spent in giving us details pertinent to the tension. Today's movies want you to just take their word for it that you need to be tense, based on music and other gimmicks. The acting and directing did a very good job in creating a Period Piece.

Disappointingly obvious, and rather thin

This movie is made that much more interesting, knowing it's a true story. It was a bit frustrating at times to see how careless the characters were with top secret information, like when they would discuss it in public settings. I guess that's what really happened, though. Worth a watch, especially for history or espionage buffs.

Amazing that this is a true story. Really enjoyed it.