Operation Mincemeat
Operation Mincemeat
In 1943, two British intelligence officers concoct Operation Mincemeat, wherein their plan to drop a corpse with false papers off the coast of Spain would fool Nazi spies into believing the Allied forces were planning to attack by way of Greece rather than Sicily.
Kevin Ward reviewedJuly 12, 2025
Colin Firth and Matthew Macfadyen are terriffic, particularly when they’re on screen together, which thankfully is for most of this films runtime. A spy thriller that details an elaborate ruse to fool Nazi forces into believing an allied attack was imminent in Greece when in fact the planned attack would be in Italy. It’s the type story where the success hinges on a thousand different pieces going exactly right and as such the outcome is always balancing on the edge of a knife. At least it should. The tension never quite feels ratcheted up to the maximum. It’s a fascinating true story at any rate. If the unnecessary romantic side-plot had been removed altogether, I may have liked this even more.