Ouch!

Rating: 6/10 (26 August 2018)

In a word, disappointing. The film shows 300,000+ mostly brutish, selfish and hateful British troops rescued in Biblical fashion by an armada of little boats crewed by saints. Vast numbers of troops left on warships from the mole or ferried to them by the small vessels. On only one day out of 9 were more taken off the beaches as via the harbor. Poor weather actually limited German air interference over several crucial days - every day looked sunny and fair in the film. One personal observation: Not sure why these Tommies were in the service rather than in the cinema as they all looked like Hollywood heartthrobs - right down to a perfect set of choppers on every last one of them. Very artificial and unsympathetic. My rating of 6 is a nod to the superior air combat scenes.