Thankfully watched at home so I could get up now and then

Rating: 3/10 (11 January 2018)

This is what is good about the movie: it's a very good history lesson and depiction of what happened in Dunkirk, and I might add was very useful to see before seeing Darkest Hour, which is a story about what led up to Dunkirk.
This is what was not good about the movie: It was a very LONG history lesson to watch very little happening. I can't believe this movie was 2 hours because it felt like 4. I can see why none of the actors were nominated for awards, because there was very little dialogue for them to demonstrate their abilities. The way I've described it to friends is: its 45 minutes of watching men try not to drown under water, 25 minutes of watching them stand in line on the beach or on a bridge to get on a boat, 20 minutes of watching men try to climb INTO boats and either being successful or thrown out, 15 minutes about a guy and his sons, and then several guys mobilizing to save the men standing on the beach and the bridge--maybe a little more including the "guy's" sons--one of whom remains perfectly coiffed through the end despite the circumstances, and 15 minutes of watching fighter pilots slowly drop to their death or in need of rescue in the ocean. Must say, my husband liked it--but he's a Vietnam era army veteran and history major and likes anything having to do with war or history. He probably would have rated it a 7.