Ultimately a bit 'clean'

Rating: 5/10 (22 July 2017)

...and ultimately just a bit dull.
Having seen many of the reviews on here I am a bit surprised. To say I was looking forward to this (as was my 14 year old son) is an understatement but just spent 2 hours watching troops waiting on a clean beach to be picked up by boats while a Spitfire saved the world - a bit of a 'meh' let down.
When bombed there were no casualties screaming and bleeding, they were just gone. There was no real feeling of the pain - just a cut and dried living or dead feel you can only achieve in a 12A.
I liked the tying in together of the seemingly disparate threads of story but the realism was massively missing and made it feel a bit 'Disney does war'. Altogheter it made for an unreal experience where everything was alright in the end and it neglected the people that sacrificed and suffered so much.
It get the feeling it really wasn't that easy an endeavor and that the suffering was so much more than was depicted.
Ultimately just too clean and sterile and the Germans apparently were hardly involved.