Film Review: Operation Mincemeat is a mature, intelligent spy thriller

"Colin Firth and Matthew Macfadyen are strong leads, and marvellous at exuding the old stiff-upper-lip Blitz spirit"

Matthew Macfadyen as Charles Cholmondeley, Colin Firth as Ewen Montagu and Johnny Flynn as Ian Fleming in Operation Mincemeat

★★★★☆

Based on a true story, and one that is arguably the single most important instance of deception in the annals of espionage, Operation Mincemeat (12A) opens in 1943 with the Allies planning to invade Nazi-held Sicily and needing a cunning scheme to persuade the German High Command that they intend to invade Greece.