Slow & Boring

Rating: 5/10 (22 July 2017)

I saw "Dunkirk", starring Kenneth Branagh-Jack Ryan:Shadow Recruit, Valkyrie; Cillian Murphy-In the Heart of the Sea, 28 Days Later; Tom Hardy-The Revenant, Inception and making his movie acting debut, Harry Styles-He is from the boy band, One Direction.
This movie was a bit of a dud for me. It is based on true events in 1940 during WW 2. It's directed by Christopher Nolan-Interstellar, The Dark Knight movies and Inception.The movie looks great. But, it is incredibly boring. Maybe die hard history buffs might enjoy it more than I did. For those unfamiliar with the situation, the Allies, including the British, Belgium and French soldiers, were surrounded at Dunkirk, France on 3 sides by German forces, with the English channel at their backs. It was about 26 miles across the channel to Dover, England. The troops were trying to evacuate while being pounded by German forces, including enemy planes. Kenneth plays the leader of the English forces just trying to get home. Cillian and Harry are a couple of soldiers that get stranded off of sinking rescue ships and Tom is an Allied fighter pilot trying to protect the escaping boats from being sunk. It is a testament to the spirit of helping people in a crisis-British civilian vessels were used to help ferry soldiers across the channel-with about 360,000 of the 400,000 troops eventually being rescued. But it is not so much as a war movie but more of a rescue and evacuation movie. There are a few air battle scenes, but overall, it was just slow. It's rated "PG-13" for war violence and language and has a running time of 1 hour & 47 minutes. It's not one that I would buy on DVD. It might be alright as a rental.