Little Bit of Dissent

Rating: 2/10 (12 January 2018)

First off, unlike some others, I knew the true story. That took most of the suspense out. Kinda like watching "Day of the Jackal," you know DeGaulle lives. And the film didn't do a good job at all of detailing the stakes and the effort involved in the operation. Just a very few shots at the end of the flotilla of English small boats. And no Germans? No dramatization of the crucial decison-making on their part that altered the course of WWII (like the Japanese choosing between bombs and torpedoes at Midway).
The characters were unlikeable, undeveloped, and in the case of the Spitfire pilots, masked. Two that you are supposed to identify with even try to cut the line getting out. All very sterile. Including the soundtrack - meant to give tension, I suppose, but another droning, boring aspect of this film. Even the civilians were robots. The bleak seascape and the weather I get, but all in all a dull, boring film in almost every respect. Even the scene where one of the rescue ships was sunk had very little humanity in it.