This was their finest hour

Rating: 9/10 (2 April 2018)

This is one of the best war movies I've ever seen, and I've seen quite a few. It's very cleverly constructed, with three timelines that gradually converge. To respond to one critic, I didn't remember any character's name either, but I remembered who they WERE: The father and his two sons who went to the rescue, the pilot who kept going when he really should have turned back, and the soldier who just wanted to get the hell off the beach. It also shows the random violence and random survival that happens in war. It's an excellent movie.