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Henry Cavill's 2-Hour Action-Movie Masterpiece With a Secret 007 Connection Is Officially Free to Stream

Nearly 20 years after almost becoming James Bond, Cavill found another surprising way into 007's history Hollywood has spent more than a decade trying to figure out exactly what kind of movie star Henry Cavill should be. He's been Superman, a monster hunter, a superspy, and Sherlock Holmes, usually playing some variation of the impossibly handsome, physically imposing guy who carries the weight of the world on his shoulders. Cavill is quite good at that. But one of his most overlooked movies suggests he's even more entertaining when somebody lets him stop saving the world and start having some fun. That movie is The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, Guy Ritchie's 2024 World War II action-comedy available to stream for free on Tubi. Inspired by a real British covert operation, the film stars Cavill as Gus March-Phillipps, the leader of a secret team recruited to sabotage a German supply ship and cripple the Nazis' U-boat operations. The ensemble includes Alan Ritchson, Eiza González, and Henry Golding, but Cavill is the reason to seek this one out. With an enormous mustache, a machine gun, and a grin that suggests he's having more fun than anyone should while being shot at, Cavill

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