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All The Queen's Men (2001)

All The Queen's Men (2001)
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A few good men are sent on a secret mission as a few good women in this comic tale of wartime espionage, loosely based upon a true story. Steven O'Rourke (Matt LeBlanc) is an American intelligence agent who, during World War II, has been assigned to obtain an Enigma machine, a special encoding-and-decoding device that Axis forces have developed to transmit their most sensitive secret information. A working Enigma machine would be invaluable to the Allied cause; O'Rourke is able to obtain a machine, but Col. Aiken (Edward Fox), a British officer whose stiff upper lip sometimes overwhelms his common sense, mistakes O'Rourke for a plunderer and destroys the previous gadget, which is hidden in a typewriter. An altercation with Aiken lands O'Rourke in military prison, but he's released in time to carry out a new plan to obtain an Enigma for Allied use. A small factory has been set up in rural Germany to build the machines, which is entirely staffed by women, so O'Rourke, communications expert Johnno (David Birkin), and veteran intelligence man Archie (James Cosmo) are to infiltrate the plant disguised as women, with Tony (Eddie Izzard), an agent who moonlights as a drag performer, giving the men a crash course in looking and acting like women. All the Queen's Men also features Nicolette Krebitz as Romy, a double agent working at the Enigma plant, and Udo Kier as Lansdorf, a Nazi general. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

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Starring:
Matt LeBlanc, Eddie Izzard, (more)
Director(s):
Stefan Ruzowitzky
Theatrical MPAA Rating:
PG13
Format(s):
DVD
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A few good men are sent on a secret mission as a few good women in this comic tale of wartime espionage, loosely based upon a true story. Steven O'Rourke (Matt LeBlanc) is an American intelligence agent who, during World War II, has been assigned to obtain an Enigma machine, a special encoding-and-decoding device that Axis forces have developed to transmit their most sensitive secret information. A working Enigma machine would be invaluable to the Allied cause; O'Rourke is able to obtain a machine, but Col. Aiken (Edward Fox), a British officer whose stiff upper lip sometimes overwhelms his common sense, mistakes O'Rourke for a plunderer and destroys the previous gadget, which is hidden in a typewriter. An altercation with Aiken lands O'Rourke in military prison, but he's released in time to carry out a new plan to obtain an Enigma for Allied use. A small factory has been set up in rural Germany to build the machines, which is entirely staffed by women, so O'Rourke, communications expert Johnno (David Birkin), and veteran intelligence man Archie (James Cosmo) are to infiltrate the plant disguised as women, with Tony (Eddie Izzard), an agent who moonlights as a drag performer, giving the men a crash course in looking and acting like women. All the Queen's Men also features Nicolette Krebitz as Romy, a double agent working at the Enigma plant, and Udo Kier as Lansdorf, a Nazi general. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi

Theatrical Feature Running Time:
101 mins

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Director(s):
Stefan Ruzowitzky
Writer(s):
David Schneider, Jeff Stockwell
Producer(s):
Marco Weber, Gabrielle Kelly, Daniel Krausz
Theatrical MPAA Rating:
PG13
Categories:
War
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    Robert and Nazrat K.

    Awful, can't say much more than that as we only watched the first 10 minutes. A brilliant and confident yank single handedly wins WW2, despite being surrounded by unimaginably stupid, bureaucratic, Brits. It was somewhere between banal and grossly insulting. I think if we'd stuck it out there was some mealy mouthed gender stuff to come. Give it a miss.

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    James V.

    In the first seconds of ALL THE QUEEN'S MEN, you'll see and hear an introductory narration that seems far too pushy and unfunny. Things don’t get much better for the next 100 minutes of this WWII, Yanks-and-Brits behind-enemy-lines movie. Britian has a long, stellar and humorous history of drag performing, so why the producers and director came up with this particular cast--led by a way-out-of-his-element Matt Le Blanc--is the big question. Eddie Izzard manages the best of the lot, but even he is constrained by a script that is obvious and fails in humor, excitement and basic plot elements. The last half (if you get that far) does begin to improve but quickly sinks back again, as though all involved decided to play it safe, obvious and--let's just say it: stupid. The budget appears to have been big, and the look of the film is pretty snazzy. But looks aren’t everything, so it's little wonder this one sank without a trace.

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    Robert C.

    4 Stars? 3 1/2 Stars? What was Rick and Ann drinking when they watched this movie? What ever it was, I need it to watch this dvd.. Come on even if this story may have not been true. Couldn't they have gotten actors that at least looked good in drag? I really tried to watch it. Honestly I did. And maybe the story would have been a little more beleivable if there were better actors in drag. I like Matt Leblanc as an actor. But this was not a movie he should have done. Actually the first 5 mins were good. And it may have been a good movie if they did Matt Leblanc straight and set him up with someone in drag. To steal the Enigma machine. Now that may have made a good comedy movie. But this don't waste your time. I'm giving it 1 1/2 stars and that may be to much. The 1 1/2 stars was for the first 5 mins of this dvd. Sorry Rick and Ann no offence huh?

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