Not bad but...

Rating: 7/10 (14 December 2017)

Another movie about the Second World War and another one with the same subject, after more than 20 others were done on exactly the same subject, the best being probably "Dunkirk" (1958), directed by Leslie Norman, with John Mills, Richard Attenborough and many others. I also enjoy the war films, don't get me wrong, but too much has been done, only I have seen a few thousands, from 1961 until 2017, made by Americans, Russians, Germans, French, Japanese, Italian, English, Yugoslavs, Hungarians, Romanians, Bulgarians, Poles, etc. This new Dunkirk is well done, realistic and spectacular, but useless in a world in preparation for a third world war... We got many other more actual and interesting subjects which nobody has the guts to approach... Back to this film: all the actors are OK, the direction and the cinematography OK, the special effects also. A personal point, everything we see on the screen seems too clean, it looks too much as a movie, if you know what I mean, the reality of those days was certainly quite different, much more misery, chaos, slaughter, etc. I would have wanted to see at least one soldier in a shattered uniform, broken into many pieces, the ships and the boats look like new ones, fresh painted, the streets and the buildings in the first 5 minutes the same... The best thing in the whole movie, the music of Hans Zimmer. Do you really want to see some absolutely special war movies, the best ever? Watch: "Morituri"(1965), "The Night of the Generals"(1967), "Rome, Open City"(1945)Roma città aperta (original title), "Enemy at the Gates"(2001), "Tora! Tora! Tora!"(1970), "Battle of the Bulge"(1965), "The Guns of Navarone"(1961), "The Longest Day"(1962), "The Cranes Are Flying"(1957)Letyat zhuravli (original title), "Ballad of a Soldier"(1959)Ballada o soldate (original title), "The Forty-First"(1956)Sorok pervyy (original title), "Ashes and Diamonds"(1958)Popiól i diament (original title), "Kanal"(1957).