I wish they evacuated me from the cinema

Rating: 4/10 (23 July 2017)

With high expectations (it is a Christopher Nolan movie after all) we entered the cinema. With even higher disappointment, we left it. Dunkirk was two hours of the same over and over and over again building scene after scene with tense music only to leave the scene again without any climax. It was a confusing mix of scenes that failed to show the overall picture. If you like war movies, there are far better movies out there.
The movie started out right and you're thrown right in the middle of the action and sitting on the edge of your seat you expect the movie to dive right into a great story, but then it stops, the climax halted, the story does not really develop and you're left with a feeling of missing something. The entire size of the evacuation (which should have been enormous) is completely missing. The dread of leaving in time because the Germans are breathing down their necks is absent and the scenes often jump to different time frames of the evacuation process. In fact the only Germans you see in person in the entire movie appear in the very end.
The acting was OK and so were the different characters put in place: you have your heroes, each in their different way and you have your cowards, also each in their own different way. The cinematography was pretty well setup.
Despite a huge potential in possibilities, Dunkirk did not convince me and I feel left stranded on the very beach they tried to escape from.