A huge disappointment

Rating: 2/10 (22 July 2010)

It's been a while since I saw this film but time hasn't dimmed the shear irritation I felt after seeing it.Not having read the book on which it is based I can't say if it was as bad as the film. It seems like stating the obvious but only an author could come up with the idea that you could atone for ruining two people's lives by writing a happy ending for them. If that was the only affront to the viewer it wouldn't have been so bad but the film is full of episodes that were just simply unbelievable. To give one example dozens of casualties from the evacuation of Dunquerque suddenly turn up at a hospital in London without any warning: no telephones or radio in 1940? A film I will never watch again.