Overall good summer actioner that also honors those who served.

Rating: 10/10 (21 July 2017)

I saw only two good summer movies this year worthy of note: Wonder Woman and this film! Very good movie.
Be warned that although not gory, it is kinda scary at several points, and the 'jump' factor is pretty high at several points.
I'm impressed by both Wonder Woman and this film by the way the directors were able to escape the usual remakes and what has been done before, and come up with new ways to awaken theaters. These two films truly give an uplifting message and leave a big impression on you.
This movie has a way of putting you in the action and letting you live it, as opposed to narrating what you should think (ie The heros of the film aren't given the usual honors in war films, but you root for them as you're watching) I feel that this is the real way combat would be, and Nolan does a good job of giving a realistic sort of feel to the combat that people would expect I think of real combat would be like.
Only criticism: it starts off kinda fast and intense, and then slowly you get more comfortable as the action becomes more and more predictable. This is actually a good thing because you can feel that tense nature of what I feel real war would be like. The adrenaline drains and you get tired just like a soldier in combat, and you can feel that. I haven't really seen that before on film.
It has kind of a Quentin Tarantino style of narration, like in Pulp Fiction, it has an out-of-order sequence of events and your mind has to put it into order.
If there were more films like this, people would get tired of them. I feel this standalone movie tells a powerful story and Nolan did a good job. Will this movie be forgotten? Most likely. But it does deserve kudos.