He's Coming Back Round...

Rating: 7/10 (19 July 2017)

Will Nolan ever let up? There was a time when the man was shooting on weekends with friends to produce something on a shoe-string budget to an unknown audience. His audience is now known as one of the widest, well-entertained yet not empty-headed and far from emotionally absent folk. And Dunkirk will meet all their expectations I'm sure.
From the get-go we are presented with a three-sided structure to Nolan's war story - land, sea, air. Men on the beaches dive into the sand for cover whenever an enemy spitfire is heard overheard. We hear it just as clearly. The sound in this film is overwhelmingly phenomenal. Surely the best of the year. It doesn't let up when we cut to the air battle, swirling and tumbling planes guiding us through the open skies - all perfectly shot. Zimmer's score simply adds to the flavour, soaring as spectacularly as the spitfires themselves.
In short, go see the film, you won't be disappointed. I saw it on a pretty big screen and you should do the same. It's a spectacle that must be experienced. I saw Baby Driver last week and this far surpasses that. Brilliantly edited, shot, and over it all, directed. If Chris Nolan doesn't at last get the nomination he's deserved for years at the Oscars it will be yet another criminal injustice committed by those fools.