Not the film you might be expecting - and all the better for it

Rating: 9/10 (30 March 2018)

If you're expecting to watch this movie and grow to care and attach yourself to the major cast leaders, you're going to be in for somewhat of a disappointment. This is not a film about and individual, or indeed a number of individuals (as many people have pointed out, but for the wrong reasons). To achieve this would have been to focus on persons rather than the events. This is a movie that takes in the entirety of what happened without sub plots or the romanticies of just a few soles for you to attach yourselves. If you need this in a film - as by reading some peoples reviews a lot of you do (and I'm not saying that if that's what you like then you're wrong), then your watching the wrong movie.
The people here who define a good movie only by whether they liked it would appear to be the very same people who would perhaps tell you a band is rubbish because they don't like the music. I was like that myself when I was twelve, but most people grow up and realise that what defines something as well made is not based on your own individual taste. You should be able to watch or listen to something, not like it, but realise that it is well made, thought provoking and something that others may find impressive. It's really quite amusing to read some of the comments on here from one or two star reviewers. A quick read will find you comments like - Music rubbish - Boring - It's disjointed (referring to the way the story is retold from several timelines) - required better CGI - Acting poor - Not factual - Why were there no Americans - Unromantic - Poor plot! Seriously people, if you don't find it to your taste, there's no issue, but come on, get a grip on some of the comments.
If you want a new Private Ryan, don't watch it, if you want a love story, don't watch it, if you think the real events at Dunkirk lacked PLOT, don't watch it. If you want to see a pretty reasonable facsimile of a major event in history (according to survivors of the real event who went to the opening of the movie), be captivated, impressed and on edge, then this is the movie for you.
If you don't like it, that's fine, but please, don't give one star to something that clearly elevates an entire genre of movies.