Not quite the masterpiece but still bloody good.

Rating: 9/10 (21 July 2017)

Rarely has there been a film in recent years as wildly anticipated as Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk. Even since it's screening for the critics at the beginning of the week the reviews have been off the scale. One I read even called it "perfection" . Do I agree ? well no - but as films go I bet you will be hard pushed to see anything as good as this in 2017. This is the story about the Dunkirk evacuation during the early days of World War II. When 400,000 British and Allied troops end up trapped on the beaches of Dunkirk, France . It loosely follows three stories. One a group of young soldiers who are trying to escape Dunkirk. The other a family who are going out to rescue them on their family boat and finally squadron RAF Spitfire Pilots. I have to say this took me a little while to get into. There is very little , if any , full blown conversations between the characters in this film which also means you get no background information on them which I would have liked. Nolan gets the audience straight into the thick of things with breath taking set pieces backed up by explosions with bullets flying around your head, This is all backed up by a hypnotic soundtrack which I have to say got a little headachy after a while. Because of this cacophony of noise I found it hard to adjust when there was dialogue or perhaps that's just me? It wouldn't be a Christopher Nolan film without him trying to confuse the audience and this time it comes with the out of sync timeline. I wouldn't know Harry Styles if he delivered my post but for a pop star he is superb in this. Probably the standout actor. Overall this is a really good film but maybe not the masterpiece we had been promised but I am a lover of historical movies and I have to say this is right up there with the best world war II films .