Dreadful

Rating: 1/10 (14 September 2017)

The idea of this film had so much potential. The execution is dreadful.
First off most of the soldiers are too clean, to well fed. Uniforms are clean and also every helmet is pristine green paint. The few we see actually waiting on the beach failed to reflect the terror of being bombed and strafed for days on end. Talk about sheep standing in line waiting at the abattoir!! The acting is a best wooden, at worst non-existent. What a waste of Mark Rylance, Kenneth Branagh and James D'Arcy to say nothing of Tom Hardy.
There is zero character development, resulting in zero emotion and zero identification with the plight of the characters.
OK Spoilers! What was the point of the kid on the boat falling down and dying? Since when do Spitfires have limitless ammunition? ( in reality they had 15 to 20 seconds of ammo ) How can a Spitfire with a dead engine shoot down a bomber? Why did Tom Hardy land his Spitfire towards the Germans and get captured? Why did the soldiers hide in a boat that was outside their perimeter?
I could go on but what's the point.
Finally, I laughed out loud when Branagh, standing on the mole said 340,000 had been saved, How the hell would he know that? Don't waste your time and money on this film.