One of the best war movies of all time

Rating: 9/10 (24 July 2017)

Perhaps more emotional for a British audience, admittedly, but this film was gripping in a way that is quite unique. Please see this movie: if only to understand the realities of war, presented in a manner that still (incredibly) allows the film to achieve a 12 Rating. There is no blood, you see. But there is horror. Not manufactured horror, the realisation of what it would have been like to find yourself there, with your badly fitting military clothing, the chilling wind and sea, the time ticking away before the enemy arrive.
The audience doesn't see the enemy. But you hear them. Another remarkable aspect of the film is (quite correctly) conjure the full throated sound of a German machine gun fired in a sleepy town.
I congratulate those who made this movie.