A huge disappointment!

Rating: 5/10 (23 July 2017)

I had high expectations when I arrived to the movie theatres to watch the latest film by Christopher Nolan but sadly my expectations fell way short. Nolan failed to capture the grand scale of the historic battle of Dunkirk. The entire movie revolved around a small boat that travels south across the English Channel along with a few other boats. In the air we have 2 to 3 planes engaged in boring, slow-paced dog fights. On the beaches we have a couple of hundred soldiers with no equipment except their guns. Now let's compare that to reality. According to historic records the following equipment was left behind on the beach by the British after evacuation: 700 tanks, 880 field guns, 310 guns of large caliber, some 500 anti-aircraft guns, about 850 anti-tank guns, 11,000 machine guns, 20,000 motorcycles, and 45,000 motor cars and lorries. During the evacuation 243 British ships were sunk and in the air hundreds of planes were involved in dogfights among which some 400 were shot down. The movie didn't come even close to capturing the scale of the battle and has very little dialog. You would think the soldiers were mute! I think Nolan should stick to science fiction movies rather than historic non-fiction.