Yes, ANOTHER review of this movie...

Rating: 8/10 (18 August 2019)

I am writing this review more for myself than for any readers, as I suspect it will get lost amidst the hundreds of existing critiques. It's a great film - I was mesmerized by the emotions this film created. The desire to live amidst the panic and claustrophobia and orderly queues. Nolan's emotional story was completely absorbing. I give the film a 10 for this.
However, the film has issues. Nolan likes to tell stories out of order, and while I enjoyed how the various parts of the finale came together, the back story about the solder who was found on top of a sinking ship was too confusing to figure out what happened. Another point of confusion was created around a plane that runs out of gas and yet manoeuvres around to shoot down a German bomber while gliding through the sky in opposite directions. Another problem is that the film is filled with uniformed pasty white English boys with brown hair -- they all look alike!
My final criticism is that the props department or the director seemed to forget that EVERYBODY smoked in 1940. World War II was at the apex of smoking. There was a noticeable lack of cigarettes being smoked by the soldiers on the beach, and back in England where hot drinks, jam and bread, and cold beers are being given out to 'the boys'. Cigarettes were also freely distributed - you don't want your soldiers having nic fits...
So I took was was essentially a 10 star film, and subtracted 2 points for unnecessary storyline confusion, and historical oversight.