Mediocre Is The Best Word

Rating: 2/10 (24 July 2017)

This movie was stunning, stunning in its disappointment. It totally fails to describe what Dunkirk was all about. It completely missed the scope of the operation. Long boring scenes that were senseless. Minutes upon end of air battles between 3 British and 3 German planes. A long stupid scene aboard a beached fishing boat. A RAF pilot who managed to shoot down a German plane after he had run out of gas (unbelievable nonsense). A few hundred men strung in rows upon the beach, a couple of boats in the water, a few broken down trucks. In fact, this operation involved hundreds of thousands of men, and thousands of boats of every shape and size imaginable , and hundreds of planes, tanks, and trucks. There was almost nothing of the what the Officers in command were faced with, or the agonizing decisions they had to make, having too little of everything they needed. Just some lonely Navy Commander staring wistfully out to sea repeatedly.Where were all the Germans? Yes Germans. Were they all whitewashed out for PC reasons ? Who then was doing all the shooting at the guys trapped on the beaches. Unforgivable BS. There was almost nothing to show the scale of the operation to send the hundreds and hundreds of small private boats that set out from every port on the south coast of England. If I were a young person who knew nothing about Dunkirk, I would have left the cinema none the wiser. Frankly, that is a tragedy, a $150 million tragedy. The sound track was awful, the noise made it difficult to hear anything that was actually said, although that was not much. I was not deaf when I entered the cinema, but I was when I came out. An absolute waste of time IMHO. The producers should be ashamed of themselves.