Loved it

Rating: 10/10 (30 September 2018)

I've read other reviews and all they are doing is nitpicking the basic movie bloopers such as the shipping cranes along the beach.
The Battle of Dunkirk was a horrible ordeal when France was taken over by Nazi Germany and the British needed to get their troops back to the island. Yes, they only showed 3 Supermarine Spitfires flying throughout the movie and left out the Hurricanes that also helped, but there are roughly 113 Spitfires left. The factories were making them as fast as possible but keeping them on the island in preparation for the Battle of Britain which occurred in June 1940.
Honestly, I can continue and entire history lesson on Dunkirk and Britain since it IS my research field. I think Nolan did a good enough job expressing the anguish each level of soldier faced by not including much verbal communication. War is not a time to be a chatty Cathy. All Brits are amazing at queuing so yes, showing the soldiers in lines is what they did.
Every "weekend sailor" vessel was commandeered by the Royal Navy in order to rescue as many troops as possible. Yes, the Luftwaffe harassed them along the beach, I mean, that's all they knew how to do.
You can not compare war movies from various eras either. Plus, the cast was used specifically to target non British markets. Tom Hardy, Kenneth Brenaugh and Harry Styles are popular names in America, but in Britain, they would have watched this movie even if new and inexperienced nobody's were in it.
Before you watch it, please research the topic. No movie will be perfect and 100% factual but Nolan did a pretty good job in my opinion.
All the Brits I know love this movie, as do I and I am an American, but a British maritime and world wars historian.