Dunkirk is more of a Video Game than an appealing movie

Rating: 5/10 (21 July 2017)

I was disappointed on seeing the movie Dunkirk, which was given a 4/5 rating. 1- Too much of the movie is made of very realistic computer generated motion pictures. It appeared to me that all of the airplane dogfight scenes were completely computer generated. There simply is too much computer generated graphics. 2- You need to know the history of this event to be able to make sense of the movie. Very little background info is given. If you do not notice the different types of helmets worn by the soldiers, you will not understand the movie. There is no background history given. 3- The soundtrack is a bit repetitive and when it becomes noticeable, it means that it hast lost its effectiveness. 4- During normal speaking volume, the background music is far too loud and makes it impossible to understand what is being spoken. 5- Last but not least, the audience cannot identify with any person in the story, and thus the movie has very little emotional impact on the audience. It leaves one cold and un-involved and hardly interested in the outcome.
Do not expect a story that pulls you in and grips you with sympathy for any one or more characters. There are just too many scenes of dying soldiers whom the audience has not come to know in any meaningful way. The actors all look very similar, and it is hard to distinguish which one has just died and which one is still living. This movie is a wannabe documentary with little historical context and no emotional appeal.