An academic movie for sure but a good movie?

Rating: 7/10 (30 January 2018)

Christopher Nolan is a fine director. I really like his directing skills and his smart ways to tell a story. "Interstellar" and "inception" are both two of my favorite movies and I'm also fun of his older films like "Memento". So I was really excited when his newest film "Dunkirk" came out in the cinemas. The movie had really good commercial releases and is also consisted of a really strong cast. So the results were expected at least for me to be phenomenal. Did that happen? In a way yes but I have to say that I ended up really dissapointed by the film in the end.
Don't get me wrong the film is amazing in some parts. In fact its technical aspect is excellent in every form. Nolan manages to create an amazing atmosphere. The viewer is feels like he is witnessing the events of operation Dunkirk at first hand. Hoytema's amazing cinematography is captivating and makes you fell claustrophobic even though most of this movies events are taking place in outer regions. And of course Nolan's genius directing does an excellent job telling us the events from three different aspects of the operation; land, seas and air. But then what is the problem with this movie? Mainly its the story. The movie lacks plot. Sure it tells about the events that took place at the operation but apart from that we don't see something amazing from the part of the characters. The directing feels detached from the story element and gives the feeling of a more docimanteristing aspect. But this movie is not a documentary. And when you are done admiring the technical aspects of the movie and you start emphasizing on the story element things are starting to collapse a little bit. The movie is filled with plot holes (like Tom Hardy's choice in the closure) or with some elements of Nolan's references to previews of his movies that doesn't give justice to this film (like Cillian Murphy's character who is introduced to us standing like Batman in the peak of a sinking ship). Overall, Nolan's movie is an academic movie. It should be teached in film schools as how to make a beautiful film. But it's not a masterpiece and surely not HIS masterpiece. And also is a movie made only for a cinema screen. Seeing this movie anywhere else will make the movie loose it's artistic touch.