Harrowing

Rating: Null/10 (1 August 2017)

Several times during the show I thought it was all over. I felt like I would drown or get shot out of the air and had to cover up as enemy planes strafed the rotting piers and the beach. That's the feeling director Christopher Nolan has created throughout "Dunkirk", one of the most exciting war movies ever made. He sustains the mood for the entire picture, together with the drone of planes and ack-ack fire of machine guns and at the end you feel almost shell-shocked - or at least have ringing in your ears.
Very odd, though, is the feeling that you have stumbled into the midst of an evacuation, which is pretty much the case. There is no beginning to the film to speak of, just thousands of troops assembled on the beach. Same at the end; you know the end to the war wasn't in sight for five more years. Christopher Nolan has made here the perfect war movie and is a must-see for WWII buffs as well as movie fans.