Awful. A lost opportunity.

Rating: 5/10 (3 August 2017)

A disappointment and lost opportunity for a good filmmaker.
The disappointment began from the first couple of minutes. Leaflets falling from the sky "We surrounded you" with a perimeter around the city of Dunkirk and right after the group of soldiers being shot at which means the Germans were already in the city and close enough to the beach to literally throw the BEF in the sea, as we soon found out when the one survivor passed the french barricade.
After that you merely had beautiful scenes. No plot, barely any dialogues, just beautiful scenes. You might as well work as a photographer if it comes to nice images only.
The soldiers standing like ghosts on the beach doing nothing. Not even simple things like smoking or eating. Look at any wartime photographs and you'll see how fake this film is.
No scenes showing the British retreating and being saved. You only see boats at the end of the film rescuing them while in reality it was a whole operation that lasted for days with a lot of action happening, but no let's just give it a surrealistic, poetic approach like Terence Mallick did with the Thin Red Line since it is one of the favourite films of Nolan. Pathetic.
Also, timelines. Why the timelines??? Nolan is obviously obsessed with them. They worked in INterstellar and Inception and I loved that. But leave them out of Dunkirk! And what's with the bad sound mixing? First there was Interstellar and now Dunkirk where you could barely understand what is being said because the music is louder than the actors!