How is it an 8 @ IMDB?

Rating: 2/10 (26 September 2018)

Honestly. I had high hopes & expectations for this movie (which, I agree, might bias my rating) but it turned out to be bleach and boring. The plane part? Whoever thought watching a spitfire chase a bomber for half a movie will be a captivating experience was wrong (IMO). The beach part? Empty sand and lines of soliders, no military equipment on the beach (Allies left around 85.000 vehicles and 450 tanks behind while evacutaing, 100+ planes were destroyed), no action. Everyone just waits in line and then disembarks within 30 seconds since the civil vessels arrive. The boat part? Why this boy was killed?! To show how mature the other young lad is (especially when he says to the pilot that the boy will be fine)? To show what shock can do to a man (pilot)? It's unrealistic and fake to me. And then, after they finally reach Dunkirk, they take some soliders on-board and dip out as soon as the oil on the water starts to burn. You can even see that the boat is half full, there are still people in water (not in the fire!) and they just dip!
And when soldiers finally come back home, expecting hate from the people for "disappoiting" them, it all ends well with a bottle of beer handed to a soldier on one of the train stations and one of them reads a famous Winton's speach. Of course he did.
It's cringy sometimes, it is soul-less and brings nothing - even fails to show the terror that those soldiers most likely felt. Constant bombings, buring oil bringing the black clouds of smoke over the beaches, scale of operation (200 out of 800 ship vessels taking part in Dynamo operation was destroyed), chaos on the beach which required to abandon everything in order to survive.