A pretty damn good film

Rating: 8/10 (8 August 2017)

I think this is a really good film. I don't think it's a masterpiece and I don't think it's even Nolan's best piece of work. It's not like any other war film I've seen. Although it has three interlocking stories, it seems more devoted to creating an immersive experience for the audience, and it does that extremely well. It's an impressive technical achievement. Oddly, although I found it to be suspenseful and absorbing in parts, I also found it to be a bit of a distanced experience. I was super aware of all the parts were fitting together, and felt like I was watching a mechanism run more than getting involved in a story. For example, I think Hans Zimmer's score is effective, but it's effect is right there on the surface drawing attention to itself the whole time.