A Unique Take On A True Event...

Rating: 9/10 (21 January 2018)

I knew this movie was going to be great, even before the trailer, but what surprised me the most was how it told three different stories of Dunkirk. I was expecting Dunkirk to be a movie about what the soldiers did to try to escape the beach of Dunkirk. I like how Nolan took three different perspectives of this event. This version of Dunkirk has to be the best, in my opinion.
Story: 10/10
The story of Dunkirk was an event about the Nazis invading France. The French soldiers got trapped at the beach of Dunkirk. The ally British failed to help fight against Germany, trapping themselves with the French. The way the Christopher Nolan showed the language barrier between the French and the English was well done. There was a scene when a group of English soldiers tried to escape with an old boat, and there was one French soldier, and they quickly turned on each other because of that language barrier between the French and the English. The other side of the story was about a team of three English men trying to rescue the soldiers on the beach. The way they showed how long it took to get to the beach of Dunkirk and the thrill of getting there was well done, it doesn't show them getting on a boat and arriving there the next scene, it slowly shows the progression of the journey. The last part of the story was by air. The pilot part was the weakest part of the movie. I wasn't entertained or thrilled in the plane scenes. I felt like Nolan wasn't interested or didn't really focus on the plane side of the story. I was expecting a little bit more from Tom Hardy, but he got the least screen time in the cast. The way Nolan showed this event through these three sides was interesting and unique. The one issue was the plane scenes.
One unique part about this movie was the characters. Dunkirk wasn't really focused on characters, but more on the story, and I support that idea. I was expecting strong characters and friendships between the soldiers, much like the movie 'Hacksaw ridge'. The movie focused on 300,000 soldiers not knowing anyone else, and nothing in common, but wanting to get out. Although I knew nothing about these characters on the boat trying rescue the soldiers, I did feel sympathy when one of them died.
Action: 9/10
Dunkirk really focused on the thrill and the fear of the soldiers, and because of that there is no gunfights, but just waiting for rescue, and Dunkirk does that well. The sound and music design is the best iv'e ever heard. The music fitted the movie perfectly. The music made it ten times more thrilling. Also the sound design was amazing, hearing the planes flying through the air was just so captivating. Near the end of the movie, there was a scene when a plane was flying over the beach, and it sounded so realistic that if you closed your eyes, you would believe you were actually there.
Dunkirk tells a great story through the perspective of three different sides, land, air, and sea. The movie didn't just focus on only the soldiers, but it also focused on the brave people who risked their lives to save the soldiers. With that and amazing sound and music design, Dunkirk easy deserves a 10/10 or a 9/10. The only reason why Dunkirk gets a 9/10 from me was how weak the story of the pilots in the planes.