Mucking with Movies: ‘The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare’

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Mucking with Movies: ‘The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare’

If Robert Rodriguez is Quentin Tarantino’s less cool but crazier younger brother version who’s willing to jump off the roof just for the gag, then Guy Ritchie is the preening, red-headed step-cousin who gets kicked in the shins twice a week. So blatant is his lack of originality throughout his direction of “The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare” that we have to count the rip-offs from “Inglourious Basterds” on two hands: costume, score, bloody …