In 2003 Richardson began filming on his return to the big screen, directing Christian Slater and Neve Campbell in , which was released in December 2004. The film was a return to the universe of Comic Strip films "The Strike" and "GLC", where Hollywood remakes and distorts events from British historical events and portrayed Winston Churchill as a gun toting U.S. G.I. similar to Bruce Willis. Phillip French writing in the Observer called it "a hit and miss affair" Peter Bradshaw in the Guardian gave it three stars and said "It's wildly uneven and very broad, but there are some laughs in Peter Richardson's Comic Strip fantasy of Churchill's real life as a kickass action hero." However Nev Peirce on the BBC's website panned the film, saying "Sadly, Peter Richardson suffers the fate of many satirists; in trying to mock bad films, he's simply made a bad film" The film grossed £148,326 on its opening weekend across 170 screens in the UK