Much better than expected

Rating: 9/10 (3 March 2018)

I took me a while to actually watch this movie due to many bad reviews but in the end bought it on Blu-Ray and am happy to have done so.
For me it was a movie about an ordinary guy (not a super hero) who only wanted to escape and technically even tried to desert when he crawled under that wooden pier hoping to get on the ship even though he was ordered not to while many many others remained. The saved soldier who in his state of terror and shell shock kills a boy that only tried to save him. No hero either
That story was well depicted. And who cares that on the beach you cannot see actually 400,000 soldiers or that the English plane did an incredible thing while he could only glide. That never bothered me.
I was very glad to see a movie about ordinary people that did not need a zillion special effects and explosions to completely overcompensate the lack of any story.
So I gave it a well deserved 9...