Clichéd

Rating: 4/10 (4 December 2017)

I thought this was poor. Most people know the overall story but the small events that made up this film were too predictable and unoriginal. I am old enough to remember the old black and white movies of the 50s where Jack Hawkins, Kenneth Moore and the like delivered stirring speeches. Those movies were better than this .
A spitfire cannot glide for so long as in this movie and then to have its wheels come down at the last minute was too much. I could not help but let out a loud groan.
That was the 3nd time I groaned the first was when the small rescuing armada of fishing boats appeared and Elgar, or a facsimile of Elgar, swelled up. Talk about hokey!
The fighter pilot only managing to open his hatch at the last possible moment. Another groan.
Then toward the end the rescued soldiers boarded a train that looked more like southern rail circa 1990 than it did 1942.
Moving back and forth in time was too confusing.