Some very well filmed scenes and some very glaring faults.

Rating: 7/10 (20 July 2017)

This movie is a mix of very good and very bad. The good parts are superb but the faults are glaring.
First of all the bad parts. The soundtrack is terrible and intrusive. Good music would have made a world of a difference. The dialog is 75% incomprehensible either behind masks or with excessively heavy accents. The movie jumps from one scenario to another too often breaking up the narrative and causing confusion. Night and day seem to be mixed up - suddenly it's day time in the air then night time on the boat and back and forth. Some of the things that are shown seem hardly worth screen time like the 17 year old boy dying and Cillian Murphy's character with his shell shock. With all the brave stories to tell why so much of that awful story?
Good points: This is no Michael Bay's Pearl Harbor movie with it's silly love triangle. Quite an antidote to those war movies with too much love story. It's all Dunkirk.
The airplane battles are quite well filmed.
Some of the scenes are the most tense in War movie history. Worth mentioning are the scenes on the ships when the torpedo strikes, bombing of ships and the men in the water with the fire on them, and strafing on the pier are second to none. The action is really seems in your face. The downed pilot almost drowning was quite scary. But the part with men being shot while hiding in the beached ship seemed overkill.
Good that they mentioned how the evacuees weren't sent enough ships and planes for the evacuation and how civilians had to help.
This movie is still worth a watch for the great parts.