All The Queen's Men (2001)
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7% of critics liked it
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48% of users liked it
(3,712 ratings)
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… More 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
- Directed By
- Stefan Ruzowitzky
- Written By
- Jeff Stockwell, David Schneider
- Genres
- Art House & International, Comedy
PG-13,
- In Theaters
- Oct 14, 2001 Wide
- Studio
- Strand Releasing
Critic Reviews
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Dennis Harvey, Variety
Not bad enough to qualify as a memorable dud, multinational production nonetheless misses mark on every level.
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Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
The comedy is nonexistent.
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Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
It all feels like a Monty Python sketch gone horribly wrong.
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Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle
What we have here isn't a disaster, exactly, but a very handsomely produced let-down.
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Lou Lumenick, New York Post
Not only does LeBlanc make one spectacularly ugly-looking broad, but he appears miserable throughout as he swaggers through his scenes.
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Cast
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Matt LeBlanc
as Steven O'Rourke
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Eddie Izzard
as Tony Parker
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James Cosmo
as Archie
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Nicolette Krebitz
as Romy
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Udo Kier
as Gen. Landsdorf
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David Birkin
as Johnno
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Oliver Korittke
as Franz
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Karl Markovics
as Liebl
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Edward Fox
as Col. Aiken
