A Mish-mash of a film, disappointing This film was filmed amazingly, but that's where my praise end. SPOILER ALERT> From the first scene it showed no character depth whatsoever, we had no idea who they were, nothing, they all get killed,by running down an open street, one gets away, our so called main character,he forgets his comrades instantly and moves on, the whole film is like this. None of the soldiers smoked, not one, nobody swore, no banter nothing, they were like robots. The highlights, the spitfire pilots the small boat crew, they saved the film for me.
On that day 300,000 troops were on the beach, where were they, a few hundred didn't give the right atmosphere, they could have used CGI i wouldn't have minded,it didn't feel epic, and it is an epic story many of the other review on here, seem to either be written by people involved in the making of the film or just people writing about the actual Dunkirk story. but this website is for film reviews, not history reviews.
If you didn't know the story, and went to see this film, you would be non the wiser at the end. So now there will be thousands of teenagers with a very strange view of Dunkirk and the British military.
I'd like to know where were the sergeants barking orders, corporals where were they, no just sullen silent privates, It was filmed very well, especially the spitfire dog fights , and tom hardy was great as usual, as were the other pilots, If you want to see a good film about Dunkirk ,watch the 1950's film,