Intense, but quite boring

Rating: 5/10 (24 July 2017)

Let me first say, I'm a fan of Nolans other work, and it's not that I have anything against war movies. The movie was very intense, not only in direction but also due to the score. But I must say I found the film mostly confusing, at first anyway, and actually a bit boring. This is by no means a "run of the mill" war film. It kind of reminded me a bit about Black Hawk Down in the way that it depicts a situation more than having a storyline. After a while I got that the three situations did not happen at the same time, and I figured that the pieces would fall into place at some time, which of course they did. But I couldn't help but thinking the way the story was told, was because it would have been even more boring to tell the story chronologically. So I guess Nolan did a good job in that sense, but I still found the story to be uninteresting, even though it is based upon an important and significant event in WWII.