What does it take to persevere in faith and family when the bottom drops out? That's exactly the story that 'Unsung Hero' tells. Director Guy Ritchie's latest hyperviolent action comedy is loosely based on a true story, but one that's received blockbuster treatment.
The Smallbone family in “Unsung Hero.” Back row : Paul Luke Bonnenfant as Daniel, Daisy Betts as Helen, Kirrilee Berger as Rebecca, Joel Smallbone as David. Front row : Tenz McCall as Ben, JJ Pantano as …What does it take to persevere in faith and family when the bottom drops out? That’s exactly the story that “Unsung Hero” tells. Director Guy Ritchie’s latest hyperviolent action comedy is loosely based on a true story, but one that’s received blockbuster treatment. The original was a mess.
But “Unsung Hero” poignantly depicts Helen’s own moments of despair, too. We see her scream in desperation into a pillow, where no one but God can hear. We see the stark terror on her face when she’s interrogated by a cruel U.S. customs officer who acts like a Cold War Russian lackey at an Iron Curtain checkpoint. Over and over and over again, she chooses hope and courage for the sake of her seven children, often when her well-meaning but despair-deflated husband simply cannot do so.
Helen’s heroism, in big ways and small, is evident throughout the story. David’s own heroism emerges late in the story, as his wife’s love and persistence snap him out of his toxic, self-focused stew of shame, anger, despair and self-pity. “I’ve acted like a fool,” he tells his family. “Can you forgive me?”
And that’s precisely what director Guy Ritchie does with this war film as a whole. Yes, there’s actual history in the mix: a true story of secret WWII espionage, heroes and gritty bravery. But it’s cocooned in a thick, bubble-wrap layer of breezy action and winking, Hollywood-style bravado.“Ungentlemanly Warfare’s” visceral stabbing, riddling, slashing, exploding and chop-‘em-with-an-axe bloodletting will undoubtedly leave some quailing.
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