Emporers new clothes

Rating: 2/10 (27 July 2017)

Saw this at an imax cinema. Boy did the imax 'sound' ruin the talking. The dreary background noises generally drummed out the voices, even when there was no other action going on. There should also have been some quiet passages depicting just the sound of the waves as the soldiers took stock of their terrible plight. The film itself is a jumble of truncated scenes, sometimes repeated, that are not filmed very well. One scene ranged from day on the English side to night in France, then, for a minute, we had a storm only to never see it again. The characters are ridiculous and the lack of factual events is disappointing. This film would have us believe that 300,000 soldiers were evacuated from the beaches of Dunkirk by a single visit from a number of small fishing boats. Also, that 3 spitfires were enough to provide all the air cover that the soldiers needed. This film is so bad that people must be commenting on it based on their knowledge of the makers and actors involved, rather than what they saw and heard.