good not great

Rating: 7/10 (23 July 2017)

This is a good movie that could have been great. Operation Dynamo as the British called it, was much larger than the story depicts. Over 325,000 soldiers were rescued by hundreds of boats, both large and small. Hundreds of airplanes fought overhead the whole time. You see none of the larger scope of the whole battle. Over 200 boats were sunk as well as over 100 planes lost on each side. You never see the true masses of men on the beach awaiting rescue. The Germans did not commit their air attacks in drips and drabs with a few planes as the movie depicts. Some use of CGI could have conveyed to the watcher the magnitude and cost of the evacuation and given it more realism those learned in history demand.