Turgid

Rating: 1/10 (6 December 2017)

I've no idea how this film got the favourable reviews it did. Being an avid war flick viewer, I anticipated an epic film, sadly, what I got was a constant barrage of stabbing violins as the sound track for two thirds of the move, a script so bland and crass it felt like it was written over an afternoon, "Keep em peeled chaps, they like to come out of the sun", good god really?, what next "watch it lads, these Hun like to shoot at you, don't get hit alrite?"
If the move was supposed to convey the bleakness and coldness of Dunkirk, if failed, because to 'feel' that bleakness, you have to attach to the characters, which is near impossible. Bombs landing on jetty's lined with soldiers met with silence, not a scream "watch out lads, bomb!, nothing, I actually questioned if there was something wrong with the sound, had it broken, no, its made this way. The final scene with spitfire johnny landing in enemy territory, even though he could have ditched and bailed near a British ship was just nonsense. If you like me love a good war film, then it fails in all aspects. What a pile of tosh.