It is Quite A Tragedy

Rating: 4/10 (21 July 2017)

Technically the film is a wonder. Nolan put me in the middle of the experience. The punishment on my ears will need a couple of hours to subside. I've noticed some reviewers writing about the story. In still trying to figure out if there was any. There were plenty of disjointed scenes edited in such a way that it bother me more than the massacres on screen. In the end. I can't remember any other time I felt so lost at the end of a movie.
There were some spectacular moments that makes me appreciate the quality of the special effects and the director's technical prowess. Unfortunately, what we get throughout is an exercise in fragmentation. With barely a thread of a story we can only say we feel as lost as the stranded soldiers hoping something would put us out of our misery as the constant barrage of explosions and foreign continued endlessly.
Sadly, the film could have starred no one special as all the major talent keeps looking a way from the camera or is in the dark, facing down, or covered with oil. There is very little emotion here and we get the idea by default. The Nazis are very bad and guns kill.
I do have to acknowledge the imaginative score by Zimmer, probably one of his beat giving us the promise of much better stuff to come but after the first 10 minutes, I felt as hopeless as the soldiers in Dunkirk.
It is hard to care for anyone when there's so little given as background. Would it have killed Nolan to have ar least one complete character? Posing nobly waiting for the ultimate demise doesn't count. Maybe we will get him back to the heights of his Batman trilogy. Not everyone hits a home run every time.
If you like fireworks you're in for a treat, otherwise prepare yourself for the longest day of your life.