50
Solidly crafted, strongly cast pic doesn't hit a thoroughgoing comic tone.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
63
New York Daily News by Jack Mathews
The veteran Cranham and young Bill play their incompatible characters with dead-pan aplomb, and Derek Jacobi adds heft as Churchill's chief intelligence officer.
60
Village Voice by Jessica Winter
Two Men is slow and sweet as warm pudding, but Cranham and Derek Jacobi (as one of Churchill's intelligence officers) both add a generous, wholehearted gravitas the film might have thought to ask for in the first place.
50
TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh
Shot in the warm sepia tones of bittersweet memories, this whimsical, unpretentious shaggy war story is the sort of film that looks like a small gem when you accidentally stumble across it on TV or at the video store. But it feels a little unsatisfying when its small virtues are stretched to cover a big screen.
67
Austin Chronicle by Marc Savlov
Henderson's warm and toasty little gem of a film, slight though it may be, reminds you that the Greatest Generation, full of vim, vigor, and – most important – an indefatigable sense of purpose, grew up on both sides of the Big Pond.
50
The Hollywood Reporter by Michael Rechtshaffen
A wobbly comedy-drama.
60
Cleverly realizing a novel premise, it's a slight but charming look at the lighter side of WWII.
60
More often than not, Two Men Went to War resembles a feature-length episode of "Hogan's Heroes," with the brave but clumsy Brits continually managing to outfox the even more bungling Nazis.
60
The New York Times by Stephen Holden
It mocks the absurdity of war, but between the chuckles, and especially near the end, it plucks the heartstrings.
50
Best advice: Wait for Two Men Went to War to go to the small screen.