I love Nolan and Hans but the films being over-hyped by critics although still super entertaining intense film

Rating: 8/10 (19 July 2017)

This is in my top 10 movies this year but it's not my best top pick (which is a shame). It was still pretty amazing glimpse into such a minutiae true biopic story line. The film started off amazingly explosive especially in a seriously epic sounding cinema (wasn't encoded in Atmos but still epic for sound geeks like me). The bullets just start whizzing pass your head like you're there with the actors struggling to break free. Just superb how Nolan does that with the audience start to finish.
Every single minute is just cross weaving through 3 different timelines of day from 3 different perspectives (Sea, Land and Air). I think I loved the Air/Spitfire scenes with Tom Hardy the most with dog fighting with the Germans. The film volume and bass was turned up so loud the screening I was in, that it felt like you were in the cockpit shooting Germans down and feeling the explosions as bombs drop. The FX guy should definitely pat himself on the back, he did a more superb job compared to Hans at times.
The score by Hans Zimmer was epic👌🏻 although it's not his best work. His score just drives the film forward with intense emotion of making you try to get out with the largest on screen extras in film history. In fact the ticking watch that provokes you into feeling the action scenes you hear through out the film, is actually Nolans recorded pocket watch which is a nice little gesture to add in (not many people realize this).
It's not normally Nolans genre but he did a great job on expressing such an intense and gloomy war plot. Did I say there isn't much dialog provided for the actors. It's because he wanted to express the story in such a way you walk out of the cinema thinking "Wow that was intense!". Not realizing you just witnessed half a silent film portrayed in special effects noise and music bombardment. That's what Nolan does best with Zimmer and I'm hoping to see more of this filming in the future.
I do want to head back to Nolans old school ways of filming in 35mm and IMAX 70mm cameras. I think I'm the only reviewer in here annoyed by him doing this for this film. I seriously believe this movie should have been filmed with 8K Red Digital cameras so the picture is beautifully clear with richer colours, dynamic contrast and doesn't get distorted at times when there isn't 70mm shots. Especially for those cinemas not catered to the 70mm film projectors. Either completely film it in 100% 70mm or don't so the format will be.
Realistically does everyone have an IMAX projector at home? no!. None of this and I repeat none of this film completely sucks you into the picture making you want to see it in IMAX (that's just my opinion). There is way too much ocean water, sand scenes and close ups of actors faces to suggest an IMAX viewing. There are way too many people riding the bandwagon in saying "Go see it in 70mm IMAX! because you don't get the full picture". I'm telling people to go see it in a theater with the best sound system setup like Atmos, even though it wasn't encoded for it. It will use the surround sound tracking and bass way better.
His past films like Interstellar or Dark Knight were used perfectly in those IMAX panorama Alien world type landscape shots or large scale buildings in the background. Where your eyes are busy looking around the screen comprehending the beauty of the shot. His techniques for this film should have been done on 8K Red captured cameras. I say this because it was completely in the way the movie was scripted to use more of the sound emphasis to build emotion of intensity.
It was great but over-hyped,,,,yes. Went into it thinking it was going to be beyond amazing, but those little things ticked me off hahaha excuse the pun (you'll get what I mean when you hear the score).