This Generations "Saving Private Ryan"

Rating: 10/10 (5 August 2017)

Sometimes when I anticipate a film for so long, all the way through its production from the time it is announced it's almost an odd feeling when i finally sit down in the theatre and watch it for the first time, But unlike in the past this film did not disappoint me in the slightest, not only did it live up to my, honesty unreasonably high expeditions, it exceeded all of them by being something I never expected.
The structure of the film was something I wasn't sure would work, having three perspectives all in different times could have been rather jarring and incomprehensible but it wasn't, it only helped to add to the scale and stakes of this whole event and not only how important it was that it succeeded but also just how difficult victory was going to be to achieve.
This film doesn't put much effort into developing its characters, usually that would bother me but here it didn't. I got the impression that this film wasn't about the characters or the actors playing them but instead about the situation they were in. I didn't have any issuer getting behind any of her because the importance of this operations success was so well established it was clear how important it was for them to survive and get home.
While Dunkirk is most definitely not a performance piece all the actors are great in this film. Mark Rylance, Kenneth Branagh and Cillian Murphy are probably the stand outs but the new comers do deserved credit, they don't have much dialogue but they but still perfectly convey they're need to survive.
Christopher Nolan has been one of my favourite directors of all time for so long and I knew he was going to do magnificent things with this movie and he did not disappoint. He did some of his best work ever here. He kept such a consistent pace from the opening scene he puts you right into the situation and doesn't let up by constantly showing chaos and destruction all within camera with no cgi or green screen making it feel all the more real. The aerial dogfight sequences were incredible, nothing about them felt fake, they felt real, intense and confined and because of them only lasting one hour of time they never let up.
As much as this film showed a lot of death and insurmountable odds it also has such a great message about hope and what people can truly accomplish when they band together which gives this film a much needed heart instead of it just being a non-stop thrill ride.
Dunkirk is a cinematic masterpiece, it lived up to everyone of my incredibly high expectations and exceeded them giving me one of the most unique war films ever made. Everything from a technical, performance and writing standpoint was done perfectly to the pout where this film felt more like an experience and less like a viewing.
10/10-A+ (Incredible)