One of the worst war movies in recent years.

Rating: 1/10 (7 January 2018)

It's amazing how people can watch the same film and see something completely different. I honestly thought it was the worst film I've seen in recent years. Almost criminal. I was left cold because of the lack of emotion, basic character development, backstory, sense of urgency, sense of threat or any story, original or historical. Also outraged because of it's misrepresentation of the events. It was almost like they decided to take away all of the actual amazing historical story and make an abstract minimalist art film about an inconvenient single journey boat trip.
I can just see them in the board room when the plot was pitched. Exec: "but isn't it meant to be a film based on actual extraordinary events in a real war? Nolan: "Yes sort of." Exec: "but there are just three planes and 3 boats? And people standing in queues for 2 hours? No action at all? No enemy?" Nolan "there are a couple of enemy planes sir, and we'll repeat the same dogfight 3 times. Oh and a boy falls down some steps and bangs his head."
I agree with veteran signaller Alfred Baldwin, who was at Dunkirk in 1940, - "You had the impression of people standing waiting for a bus." It's actually upsetting me just thinking about it again. I thought it was a disgrace. I have over 300 war films in my collection. I won't let Dunkirk anywhere near it.