Should be renamed Dumb Crock

Rating: 1/10 (6 August 2017)

I love Christopher Nolan's films. So unusual and most have great depth. He is terrific at using a creative imagination. I feel he should not have come within coo-ee of a true War story. It is not his genre. I am stunned - although I guess I should not be - at the high ratings from so-called experts. Were they facing the screen when this was on.
Why do Americans have to spell everything out for us? A plane makes a massive thud into the ocean as it is shot down and one of the men says "It's down". Thanks for letting us know. Then you see 30 men swimming towards a boat and I think the same guy says "There are man in the water". Really? I thought they were dolphins. Do we really need Cellos and Horns to try and build tension. I do understand the war was tense. We don't need bloody Cellos to inform us. I missed most of the dialogue. I felt sorry for the Cello players. They are probably in hospital right now with some repetitive injury.
The actors looked so disengaged. The older dude in the small boat got emotional once and it looked weird. Kenneth Brannagh looked like he was on Prozac. He probably teared up towards the end because it was possibly the worst movie ever made. Tom Hardy wore a mask through the whole movie until the last minute. One of the finest British actors and you cannot see his expression nor hear him over stupid Cellos.
There was flitting between time lines without explanation. Cillian Murphy suddenly appears on a boat refusing to let some men on. Like huh? A boy gets killed for no reason and nobody really cares. The son of the captain starts to care and then he suddenly stops caring for some reason. There is mention of 300,000 men on the beach. Were they in crab-holes?
Lastly with all the budget on this movie why do war scenes in other movies make these look dull?