Turgid

Rating: 1/10 (11 December 2017)

I love movies, all genres, and I don't deliberately knock a movie just for the sake of it. But this was a bore-fest. How could any director take a pivotal moment in the Second World War, a truly dramatic, heroic, incredible rescue of 300,000 trapped men, and serve it up in this sleep-inducing monotonous style? From the first moments the soundtrack grates on your ears...imagine being in a huge thousand car traffic jam and all the other motorists are honking their horns at the same time and you put your fingers in your ears to try and block out the sound but it seeps through anyway...that's what this soundtrack is like. Now I recognize that some of the scenes are technically well filmed, but there was a lack of dramatic build up of tension, it was filmed like some kind of long dream sequence. Really,it was more like a cure for insomnia. I really expected this to be a great movie, especially after reading the first reviews, but it was a turkey and left me cold. Where was the fleet of little boats and ships that was at the centre of this event? Conspicuous by their absence. My honest advice is wait for it to appear on DVD...and then...don't rent it!!!