Shameful lack of scope in this age of CGI

Rating: 3/10 (28 January 2018)

It amazes me that this film has an average review score more than 8. I found it tedious and unnecessarily time-skewed. Christopher Nolan seemed to think it was a good idea to jump between events that were happening at different times. So, for instance, we had night time scenes at Dunkirk while it was daylight 20 miles away in the channel. It was unnecessary and confusing - a chronological telling would have worked far better. More irksome still was that, in supposedly trying to right the myth that the RAF provide no support, Nolan has three Spitfires, three, being the entirety of RAF involvement, and only a handful of German planes too . This is patent rubbish. The biggest gaff of all is that we get no sense whatsoever of the huge numbers of civilian boats that made the trip to rescue soldiers from the beach, some of them returning over and over again. In this age of CGI I was surprised that, when for once the vast scope of something was a vital part of the story, the images showed hardly anything. This was a very poor effort from someone regarded as being one of the top film makers. And that people can review it so highly perhaps illustrates that people don't care, provided there's shooting and explosions. For me it was dull and unedifying.